While all cloud-based file storage companies invest in protocols to keep your company’s sensitive data safe, the details of these policies may vary. To keep your documents safe, look for providers ...

Object storage has quietly become the default backend for half the data infrastructure being built today, and almost nobody ...

The real difference between NTFS, exFAT, and FAT32 (and which one you actually need) ...

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 ...

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so – but ...

Apple's macOS provides a way to mount and access storage volumes used by other operating systems on your desktop. Here's how to get started. Your Mac is able to read an audio CD, or most USB thumbs ...

The approach: S3 Files uses a “stage and commit” model, borrowing the concept from version control systems like Git: changes accumulate on the file system side and are pushed back to S3 as whole ...

As part of the agency’s ongoing modernization efforts, it issued a request for information for a new enterprise file storage system The Internal Revenue Service is looking to modernize its enterprise ...

CRN breaks down the strength and weaknesses for the 15 leading storage vendors who made Gartner’s new 2021 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage. The Top 15 Distributed File ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. With so many emerging ...