Businesses are struggling with the rapidly increasing volume, speed and variety of information being generated today – what's come to be known as big data. Companies are seeking technologies that not ...

* Glimpse into changes large files will bring Last time we talked about new, very large data files that are the result of improvements in some important technologies, and I raised a concern that we ...

What's Hot In Big Data? The 2013 O'Reilly Strata + Hadoop World conference is under way in New York, where just about every major player in the big data arena is showing off their latest technology ...

In the realm of modern data management, few technologies hold as much promise and versatility as the ZFS file system. Originally developed by Sun Microsystems for their Solaris operating system, ZFS ...

All businesses have important documents that must meet regulatory requirements, support internal operations or be shared with clients. In the past, file cabinets lined office walls. As technology has ...

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 ...