A fundamental of file systems since their inception has been their locking mechanisms. These exist so that different users and applications working on the same file (or region of a file) ...

One of the biggest storage decisions being considered by customers nowadays is how they want to manage their data: as cloud-like objects or as traditional files. For some, that decision inevitably ...

Despite the many changes in data storage over the decades, some fundamentals remain. One of these is that storage is accessed by one of three methods – block, file and object. This article will define ...