File manager alert 25/3/2011
Dell's Compellent Unit to Add Dedupe, Global File System
PCWorld
Data compression and deduplication technology from Ocarina Networks and a global file system from Exanet will be integrated into Compellent products, said Marty Sanders, executive director for technology and services at Dell Compellent, on Thursday. ...
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Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Apple drops FTP, adds WebDAV file sharing for iOS
Apple Insider
The most obvious change for desktop users is the removal of FTP from the available protocols in System Preference's File Sharing. FTP is a very simple, early protocol for making files available over the Internet, but offers little in terms of security. ...
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Meet Mapr, a Competitor To Hadoop Leader Cloudera
GigaOm
24, 2011, 10:04am PT 2 Comments Hadoop, the open-source file system and MapReduce implementation for massive-scale data, was the talk of the conference Wednesday at our Structure Big Data conference in New York. From new Hadoop distributions to ...
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Tintri flashes unique VMware storage credentials
Register
The Tintri VMstore file system uses virtual machine abstractions, VMs and virtual disks, in place of conventional storage abstractions such as volumes, LUNs, or files. Each I/O request - reads, writes, or metadata operations - map directly to the ...
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Thecus® NAS Advance into the Age of EXT4
HEXUS
EXT4 is the next step in the evolution of Linux's most commonly used file system, which many servers run, including NAS. To put it in perspective, there was a nearly 10-year gap between EXT3 and EXT4, making this a major jump in performance, ...
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Only The Blocks That Have Changed And Other Platitudes
NetworkComputing.com (blog)
Unfortunately for us, when storage systems replicate data or take snapshots the blocks they move around are more like file system allocation units than SCSI blocks and are usually a lot bigger than 512 bytes. As a result, users frequently see that they ...
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