You can open or import a surprising number of file formats into Microsoft Word. Not to be confused with file formatting, which—in most programs—refers to the design of a page, file formats are little ...

A fundamental of file systems since their inception has been their locking mechanisms. These exist so that different users and applications working on the same file (or region of a file) ...

The substance of the debate boils down to whether or not the concept of a “file” (as opposed to a directly-addressed object) will be relevant as more and more computing (and more of our daily lives) ...

Have you ever wondered how to open a JSON file? Probably not. However, for those who do, chances are you’ve tried everything under the sun but still cannot find a way to gain access to the data inside ...

Market leaders in distributed file systems and object storage include Dell Technologies, IBM, Pure Storage, Scality, NetApp and Qumulo, according to Gartner’s new 2020 Magic Quadrant. Gartner’s 2020 ...

Cloud and object storage bring numerous benefits, such as massive scalability, flexibility and reduced cost of storage. But many – in fact, most – applications are just not written to take advantage ...

Did you receive an RBF file and are unable to open it? That’s a common issue if you have not used such file extensions previously. The RBF format stands for Rollback File, used primarily by the ...

Developing apps for the Android platform allows you to handle various media types users have on mobile devices, including image files. With a few additions to the Java code for an Android app, you can ...

It’s the time of year for reading the tea leaves. Here are my predictions for the data storage industry landscape in 2021. Security remains a vital challenge for new distributed applications that are ...