Forget beards and sandals. The leading open-source file systems are enterprise-class big hitters, with advanced features and massive, often parallel, scalability. Sure, many are under development and ...

Sun Microsystems has released the source code for its OpenSolaris file system, a major component of its server operating system. As part of a "build," or update, to OpenSolaris, the company on ...

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The deal, expected to close by early October, will give sun Cluster's Lustre File System, an open-source software distribution widely used in large computing systems Almost lost in the clamor over Sun ...

When Apple was about to introduce Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard, John Siracusa wrote in the summer of 2006 about how a new file system should be coming to Macs (which it did, 11 years later). The ...

Apple's efforts to support the development of ZFS, an advanced file system originally created by Sun, were officially terminated today in a notice posted by MacOS Forge. The tersely worded message ...

A ndroid's built-in file managers have come a long way since the early days, but they still feel frustratingly limited if you do anything beyond basic file browsing. Whether you'r ...

An all open-source workplace makes the most sense. You’ll save money, be more secure and have more flexibility. Hypothetical: You need to set up the IT infrastructure (email, file sharing, etc.) for a ...