Apache Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system. This article covers the architecture, features and characteristics of Kafka and how it compares with other messaging systems.

However, this particular acquisition stands out because it validates distributed file systems as an increasingly important technology architecture and enterprise storage market segment.

Today marks the availability of Alluxio 1.0, the first major release of the memory-centric, virtual distributed file system formerly known as Tachyon. The graduate of UC Berkeley’s AMPLab is already ...

IBM today plans to release a distributed file-system technology that it said will provide storage management capabilities across storage-area networks (SAN) with disk arrays and servers from ...

Gartner has established a new Magic Quadrant for distributed file systems and object storage due to the rapid growth of unstructured data. Here are the vendors that are leading the way.

The proliferation of small files in distributed file systems poses significant challenges that affect both storage efficiency and operational performance. Modern systems, such as Hadoop ...

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 ...

Supported storage systems include S3, Google LLC GCS, Microsoft Corp. Azure Blob Storage, MinIO Inc. object storage, Ceph software-defined storage and the Hadoop Distributed File System.

The distributed file system can reach a 6.6 TiB/s aggregate read throughput when used in a 180-node cluster, achieving a 3.66 TiB/min throughput on the GraySort benchmark (in a 25-node cluster).