About 10 years ago, a prominent tech executive confidently informed me that computer files would become obsolete. The exec was Bret Taylor, who at the time was building a Microsoft Word alternative ...

In this podcast, we look at file synchronisation software, with Jimmy Tan, CEO of Peer Software. We talk about how it works and the differing methodologies that can be used, such as peer-to-peer and ...

Quick: Send me a large file. Even today, decades after a famous comic about this exact problem, it's not necessarily simple. Messaging services don't allow truly huge files; neither do most email ...

Data is critical to businesses of all sizes, and the idea of being able to store it anywhere and access it everywhere is immensely appealing. This is the promise of global file systems (GFS), which ...

If the system does not have a properly allocated paging file, this can lead to performance errors and an error message. Setting the Virtual memory can ensure ...