Data is critical to businesses of all sizes, and the idea of being able to store it anywhere and access it everywhere is immensely appealing. This is the promise of global file systems (GFS), which ...

Network file system (NFS), server message block (SMB) and common internet file system (CIFS) are all file access storage protocols, used to access files on remote servers and storage servers (such as ...

Linux is the most flexible and customizable operating system on the planet. That customizability starts deep within the heart of the Linux kernel and the file system. A computer file system is a ...

As part of CRN’s 2025 Storage 100, here are 50 vendors bringing software capabilities, services and cloud connectivity to storage technology. It used to be the value of storage technology depended on ...

In context: Microsoft introduced the original version of ReFS in 2012 alongside the enterprise-focused Windows Server 2012. At the time, the company stated that the new file system was intended to ...

The storage hardware maker will announce a new file storage system falling into the midrange of the company's Snap line. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...