A fundamental of file systems since their inception has been their locking mechanisms. These exist so that different users and applications working on the same file (or region of a file) ...

Abstract "Double-extortion" ransomware attacks not only encrypt systems but also steal sensitive data. Traditional backups ...

Lock contention issues can be frustrating problems to investigate and debug. But anytime a database system is involved, the potential exists for locking to cause concurrency problems. Before blaming ...

Designing and implementing a proper database for application development is a complex and time-consuming task. The choices made during database and application design will impact the usefulness of the ...

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 ...

For years, ransomware attacks have predominantly targeted Windows and Linux platforms, however cybercriminals have begun to shift their focus toward macOS users, experts have claimed. The recent ...

We're using DFS for standardizing access to our file servers. I am looking into the possibility of using DFS replication as well but I have something that, I believe, is going to be a problem. One of ...