Oracle Corp. this week is releasing the underlying code to software it developed to allow databases to be better managed on clusters of Linux servers. The company on Wednesday plans to post online the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The rationale for deploying a clustered storage system is in many ways similar to that of deploying clustered servers: You get better scalability, both for capacity and performance, and more ...

Russ Miller runs a monster of a server cluster that eats storage at an incredible rate. The bandwidth requirements alone on his 22TFLOPS system force Miller to look outside the storage box, so to ...

Getting top performance from a storage system and making applications faster and more resilient are two critical and challenging aspects of computing. Unfortunately, many vendors’ solutions focus on ...

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, ...

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 ...