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 Distributed ...

In this whitepaper, Yahoo engineers Konstantin Shvachko, Hairong Kuang, Sanjay Radia, and Robert Chansle look at HDFS, the file system component of Hadoop. While the interface to HDFS is patterned ...

Seagate this week introduced a ClusterStor Hadoop Workflow Accelerator that introduces the Hadoop on Lustre Connector, which allows clusters based on Hadoop and the open source Lustre file system “to ...

Cloud computing is a new technology which comes from distributed computing, parallel computing, grid computing and other computing technologies. In cloud computing, the data storage and computing are ...