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 ...

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 ...

In the Linux environment, the file system acts as a backbone, orchestrating the systematic storage and retrieval of data. It is a hierarchical structure that outlines how data is organized, stored, ...

As file sizes and data sets grow into the terabyte and petabyte range, users are looking for a method for storing, accessing and sharing the files among different hosts. That’s where clustered and ...

One soon-to-be-released incarnation of object-based storage is Lustre, an open-source file system that’s under development by Cluster File Systems Inc. in Mountain View, Calif. Lustre, which is short ...

Almost lost in the clamor over Sun Microsystems Inc.’s expanded partnership with Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday was a small acquisition that will bolster Sun’s HPC storage offerings. Sun agreed to ...