Remember WinFS – Windows Future Storage? Once upon a time, this was a planned radical enhancement to the Windows file system that was going to be part of Vista. It turned out to be far too ambitious, ...

Digital forensics has become a pivotal discipline in the investigation of cybercrime and data recovery, focusing on the systematic extraction, analysis, and interpretation of data from digital devices ...

In today's digital landscape, organizations face an unprecedented challenge: managing and protecting ever-growing volumes of data spread across multiple environments. As someone deeply involved in ...

Data is critical to businesses of all sizes, and the idea of being able to store it anywhere and access it everywhere is immensely appealing. This is the promise of global file systems (GFS), which ...

File systems and UUIDs have a special relationship on Linux systems. What are these very long identifiers and how can you view the connections between them and disk partitions? The /etc/fstab file is ...

Managing data storage is ever more complex. IT teams have to wrestle with local, direct-attached storage, storage area networks, network attached storage and cloud storage volumes. They might be ...

The Windows File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) is new to the first release candidate of Windows Server 2008 R2, which was made available last month and is due to be released in October. FCI is a ...