Neel Somani, a researcher and technologist from the University of California, Berkeley, has seen firsthand how big traffic spikes can trip up even top tech companies. They use distributed systems, ...

Naming Server (NM) – Central coordinator that maintains file metadata, ownership, access control lists (ACLs), storage locations, and orchestrates operations across storage servers. Handles client ...

The new program, Direct File, helped low- and moderate-income taxpayers file their returns more easily, and had been expanding. By Tara Siegel Bernard The Internal Revenue Service is shutting down its ...

As organizations embrace hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, a hidden cost has quietly become one of the biggest drains on IT budgets. Cloud egress fees—the charges for moving data out of cloud ...

Panzura LLC, maker of a global cloud file system, is adding native Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 application programming interface compatibility and file-level geofencing to its CloudFS platform in ...

Debt claims are a vehicle for conspiracy-laced demands and vendettas against politicians, judges and public employees. Allegations that government officials owe activists money or property is a tactic ...

Abstract: Geo-replicated distributed file systems offer a convenient solution to avoid data loss caused by disasters or system failures. However, ensuring reliable data preservation at high I/O ...

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DeepSeek AI recently released its Fire-Flyer File System (3FS) as open source, presenting a distributed storage solution specifically engineered for the high-throughput, low-latency demands of ...

File systems have been around for as long as computers have been invented. Over the past 40 years, what used to be a little invention on a thinking machine has grown into an enormous industry with ...