You can move seldom-used files to offline storage, but in Windows 2000, you have another option when server hard drives begin to fill up: you can build a Distributed File System (DFS) tree.

Just about a year ago, I first mentioned TidyFS, a new, small distributed file system under development by Microsoft Research. Later this week at the Usenix '11 conference, Microsoft researchers ...

I looked at some distributed file systems but it seems they are all geared towards big cloud data except maybe BlueFS/EnsemBlue, but except some papers I didn't find anything about it.

PeerGFS enables a distributed file system to be created across mixed storage systems that include Windows, NetApp Data ONTAP, DellEMC Isilon/VNX/Unity, Nutanix Files, S3, and Azure Blob, with ...

Now, a few weeks ago I mentioned the improvements in the Distributed File System (DFS) with Windows Server 2003. Note, though, that it’s the “distributed” part (an application or service ...

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A key feature in Windows 2000 Server is DFS, short for Distributed File System. DFS is handy because it lets you point all network drives, no matter what server they physically occupy, to a single ...

But for now, the SAN File System supports only IBM’s own Enterprise Storage Server disk arrays plus servers running its AIX operating system and Windows 2000. IBM is trying to convince other ...

Big-data platform provider WekaIO Inc. said today it has closed on a hefty $135 million late-stage funding round led by Generation Investment Management, doubling its valuation in the process. A ...