NetApp’s Ontap OS and file system enabled S3 object storage access in 2020 and it is available in hardware, software-defined and cloud products alongside file and block protocols.

However, object storage is not built around a file system, so it lacks the same kind of methods that enable locking. File (NAS) and block (SAN) storage both rest on the file system.

Leil Storage announces the release of SaunaFS 5.0, redefining what’s possible for on-premise large-scale enterprise storage ...

USB flash drives (a.k.a. “thumb” drives) may seem passé in a world where AirDrop and cloud storage solve the file-transfer problem. But they’re still quite useful for handing over files to another ...

The first screen lets you sync particular folders on your system,such as the desktop). That means any files in these selected folders will be backed up automatically to your Google Drive storage.

For the past few decades, Windows has used the NTFS file system as the default for fixed drives on a PC, and that has stuck all the way through today. In recent years, though, Microsoft has been ...

Parallel file system storage specialist Panasas, founded by Dr. Garth Gibson of Carnegie Mellon University, the man who co-created RAID back in the ’90s, has tailored its ActiveStor product line ...

At last, Microsoft appears to be taking action with its Resilient File System (ReFS) technology. Despite being 14 years old, the storage format remains largely unfamiliar to most Windows users.

Yet on the flip side, just because data can linger on a storage drive doesn’t mean you can always recover files that have been deleted, corrupted, or otherwise lost. Let’s do some mythbusting.