Hitachi Data Systems gobbles BlueArc
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BlueArc has a data tiering capability, and its products offer file storage virtualisation across an up to 8-node cluster, scaling up to a 16PB capacity. The software running them is the SiliconFS file system, which provides NFS and CIFS file access as ...
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Reasons why USB thumb drives are the wrong choice
tuaw.com
We had just posted about why Lion Version support was not available on non-HFS+ file systems. Our debate wasn't over whether they were good or not, but rather why they were a poor choice for day-to-day work. All of us had a number of drives around, ...
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Quantum to Expand StorNext Appliance Family to Simplify Big Data File Sharing ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Supporting Quote Janae Stow Lee, senior vice president, Filesystem and Archive Product Group, Quantum: "We've taken our industry-proven StorNext software and incorporated it into a family of powerful scale-out appliances that can tackle the growing ...
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How Apple's Lion won't let you trash documents
Reg Hardware
Lion saves document changes in a hidden file .DocumentRevisions-V100 , though only on drives formatted with the HFS+ file system. For an in-depth exploration of Lion's versioning, see blog Tech, TeX and Theory. only contains an initial copy of the file ...
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America Invents Act Significantly Changes Patent Law
JD Supra (press release)
Perhaps most notably, the Act will transform the US patent system from a "first to invent" system to a "first to file system." Under the current "first to invent" system, the first party to invent is entitled to priority. Under the new "first to file" ...
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Ten watchwords for Microsoft's Windows 8 conference
ZDNet (blog)
MinWin: The “guts” of Windows (the kernel, hardware abstraction layer, TCP/IP, file systems, drivers and other core system services). Microsoft included an implementation of MinWin as part of Windows 7, officials acknowledged. But it sounds like MinWin ...
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Gluster Offers Storage Choice in Red Hot Hadoop Space
Network World
Gluster is the developer of the GlusterFS, "an open source distributed file system distinguished by multiple architectural differences, including a modular, stackable design and a unique, no-metadata server architecture". They are also the managers of ...
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Kernel Log: Coming in 3.1 (Part 2) - Storage and filesystems
The H
The iSCSI target framework LIO has been updated to Version 4.1 and the default Ext3 settings make the filesystem more robust, but a bit slower. On Monday morning, Linus Torvalds released the fifth pre-release version of Linux 3.1. ...
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