What enterprise IT managers would really like to have is "the great Windows Explorer in the sky." This is according to Dan Tanner, director of storage research, storage, and storage management for the ...

Lustre is a recognized leading parallel file system that is used in many of the Top500 sites on a consistent basis. The ability of Lustre to handle billions of files on a massive scale and with top ...

With the introduction of Windows 11 23H2, Microsoft has modernized File Explorer on Windows 11, bringing a fresher look and feel to the system's integral file management tool. This update is not only ...

File systems have been around for as long as computers have been invented. Over the past 40 years, what used to be a little invention on a thinking machine has grown into an enormous industry with ...

If you have a lot of files and folders to manage in OS X—and who doesn’t?—there’s a really handy utility called Hazel that can help. It enables you to automate all kinds of file-management chores, ...

Back when Windows Vista was but a twinkle in Bill Gates’s eye, Microsoft had some extremely ambitious plans to rid computer users of an outmoded concept called “files.” But alas, WinFS (as the company ...

Editor's Note: Embedded Systems Architecture, 2nd Edition, is a practical and technical guide to understanding the components that make up an embedded system’s architecture. Offering detailed ...

Is file management essential, hazardous, or a relic? Judging from the comments posted to my column two weeks ago, “Microsoft’s killer tablet opportunity,” and to last week’s piece, “Crowdsourcing the ...

Nearly all the storage array makers now have a data management play, going almost as far as subsuming their entire offer underneath it.