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) ...

Unstructured data is huge – in all senses. There is lots of it, and file or object sizes can be large. Go back just a decade and the predominant method of storage for unstructured data would have been ...

I have an excel file a coworker sent me that lags tremendously. I tried to narrow the problem, until I deleted all the data on the sheet, and the file would still lag. I checked the file for any ...