There is much value in separating storage from compute, particular for cloud database deployments. To this end, Alibaba has targeted low latency and high availability with a newly developed ...

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The latest Web technologies can be used to build a secure and distributed file storage system by loading a piece of JavaScript code into users’ Web browsers without them knowing, a researcher ...

Last month we began discussing typical file systems, starting first with local and shared file systems, then moving into the network file system. The network file system (also known as a proxy file ...

Writing your own operating system can be anything from a summer hobby project to a full-fledged commercial endeavor taking many years to complete. One might think that with so many operating systems ...