Designing distributed file systems that maintain POSIX-compatibility is a challenging task, often requiring tradeoffs to be made. GFS introduced a decoupled architecture comprising a master, ...

Version 1.0.0 of CubeFS was released as open-source in March 2019. It entered the CNCF Sandbox in December 2019, moved to the Incubator in 2022, and graduated as a full CNCF project in January 2025.

The CEO of XSKY, XU Xin, stated that leveraging the pioneering "XSEA" architecture, XSKY has developed XINFINI, an all-flash distributed storage solution that would significantly reduce the cost of ...

Hammerspace Inc., an eight-year-old startup that provides high-speed access to distributed data, has introduced an artificial intelligence-focused data platform that prepares and delivers data to AI ...

Erasure coding has emerged as a cornerstone of modern distributed storage, replacing simple replication with more space‐efficient schemes that fragment data into redundant pieces. By encoding an ...

Driven in part by a rise in AI workloads, enterprise data storage must deal with heavy and ever-increasing volumes. Storage products must handle it all simply and efficiently, as well as securely, due ...

These 10 data storage startups are tackling disaster recovery and archiving, data protection, and high-speed and secure file sharing -- and even cutting the cost and upping the performance of ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. This year, 2025, the global data creation will reach a staggering 181 zettabytes, as projected by Statista. As financial institutions ...

Distributed storage, especially front-of-the-meter batteries, can fill the critical 'missing middle' between bulk storage and customer demand response, increasing grid capacity. Scaling distributed ...