As file sizes and data sets grow into the terabyte and petabyte range, users are looking for a method for storing, accessing and sharing the files among different hosts. That’s where clustered and ...

Any energized discussion around virtualization, if conducted long enough, will inevitably lead to defining storage management, which will then quickly turn to the subject of a clustered filesystem.

Russ Miller runs a monster of a server cluster that eats storage at an incredible rate. The bandwidth requirements alone on his 22TFLOPS system force Miller to look outside the storage box, so to ...

This week our Special Focus takes a look at products that promise to combine disparate file systems into a single package with a single namespace. These clustered or SAN file systems have several ...

The rationale for deploying a clustered storage system is in many ways similar to that of deploying clustered servers: You get better scalability, both for capacity and performance, and more ...

I think the number is actually 1.7 million, but here we go. Environment is a clustered GFS2 volume (RHEL 6.1) with 1.7 Million PDFs (~3MB a piece, I think, but don't quote me since that doesn't seem ...

Hewlett Packard Co. (HP) today announced its intent to acquire PolyServe Inc., a provider of clustered file system software. According to sources, the purcahse price is approximately $200 million. The ...