Using networked file systems is a common method for sharing disk space on UNIX-like systems, including Linux. Sun was the first to embrace this technology by introducing the Network File System (NFS), ...

BURLINGTON, Mass.—Avid has unveiled the latest edition of its NEXIS media server family leveraging enterprise class hardware, including faster storage controllers, disks and network connections, for ...

Microsoft is using the virtual file system "Git Virtual File System (GVFS) "announced. By virtualizing the file system under the repository, GVFS adopts a mechanism that executes download at the time ...

Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ReadWrite, and other tech media. Asay has also held a variety of executive roles with leading mobile and big data software ...

Many of the major advances in HPC have been the result of collaboration between academia and the big government labs. This has been the case with PVFS (Parallel Virtual File System) and its latest ...

Germany-based open-source file syncing and sharing software company ownCloud has added a virtual filesystem to its desktop client, which means that users will now need much less local storage space ...

"One" -- as in "One Microsoft" -- is Microsoft's favorite number these days. Late last week, Microsoft officials announced availability of one of the tools created under 1ES. That tool, known as Git ...

One of the more surprising stories of the past year was Microsoft’s announcement that it was going to use the Git version control system for Windows development. Microsoft had to modify Git to handle ...