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 ...

Changes impacting storage are taking place at every layer of the network architecture: Disk drives are continuing on a Moore’s law-like cost/capacity curve, yet concurrently we are also seeing the ...

Clustered storage systems run on storage servers, NAS gateways and hosts. Here's how to determine which clustered file-system architecture is best for your needs and storage environment. Clustered ...

In mid-2004, Niall O’Driscoll faced an all too common problem: He knew his storage needs were growing quickly, but he didn’t know much more than that. O’Driscoll is vice president of engineering for ...

Linux company Red Hat has begun selling new software for creating a communal storage system that spans many devices in a network--part of its effort to expand beyond its core operating system business ...

A maker of software that allows a single application to draw resources from multiple linked, or “clustered,” servers said Monday that it has made available a version of its software for IBM’s ...

In the realm of modern data management, few technologies hold as much promise and versatility as the ZFS file system. Originally developed by Sun Microsystems for their Solaris operating system, ZFS ...

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, ...

When Jehangir Athwal and his colleagues wanted a system to do the heavy lifting at their bioscience software company, they were interested in a supercomputer system. But sticker price shock turned the ...

Hewlett Packard Co. (HP) today announced its intent to acquire PolyServe Inc., a provider of clustered file system software. According to sources, the purcahse price is approximately $200 million. The ...