Although the World Wide Web is a global network, it remains predominantly centralized in terms of data storage. Servers, whether physical or virtual, are housed in large server farms or cloud ...

Despite the many changes in data storage over the decades, some fundamentals remain. One of these is that storage is accessed by one of three methods – block, file and object. This article will define ...

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 ...