External Storage Is Back From Recession, Gartner Says
PCWorld
"It's easier to install and provision and manage file-based storage in a virtualized server environment," Cox said. EMC and NetApp have capitalized on this advantage by focusing on NFS (Network File System) platforms for storage in virtualized data ...
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Senate Passes Bill to Change Patent System and Pricing
New York Times
Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is expected to introduce a patent bill that supports the Senate's change to a first-to-file system. But it is uncertain whether the House bill will contain ...
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Volume corruption may cause permissions problems in OS X
CNET (blog)
If the system cannot access files from the boot drive then you may experience slow-downs, errors, hangs, and crashes. Usually provided the hardware and file system format are working properly these errors can be addressed with a permissions fix, ...
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Microsoft Issues Security Bulletins For Vulnerabilities In Windows, Office
CRN
But for an attack to be successful a user must visit an untrusted remote file system location or "WebDAV share" and open a document from that location that is then loaded by a vulnerable application, Microsoft said.
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Mac IT Guy: the Phantom Printer
PCWorld
I don't know which one is active until I try to move a file to one of them then switch to Windows 7 and can't find it. Any suggestions? The first thing to figure out is whether your network is using Microsoft's Distributed File System (DFS). ...
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Massive data volumes making Hadoop hot
Computerworld
Unlike traditional relational database management systems, Hadoop is designed to work with multiple data types and data sources. Hadoop's Distributed File System (HDFS) technology allows large application workloads to be broken up into smaller data ...
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How to Spring Clean Your Finances
U.S. News & World Report
Regina Leeds, the "zen organizer" and author of One Year to an Organized Life, suggests setting up a file system to easily store receipts that pile up throughout the year. For example, you might want to have separate files for expenses related to your ...
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Easy Linux File-sharing With WebDav
LinuxPlanet
You can think of it as a networked file-system run over HTTP; or as a way of supporting long-distance collaboration on files. The protocol supports locking and versioning information, so once you've accessed the WebDAV folder (see below), ...
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Microsoft and Motorola's patent spat heats up
CNET (blog)
On Microsoft's side, the company added five extra patents on January 19, one of which related to a handheld computing device with an external notification system, three that dealt with browser navigation, and one for file system management on flash ...
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