David Chernicoff

Both Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. recently offered more information on file system technologies that will underlie their next-generation operating systems. To small surprise, the Dynamic File System and WinFS take different tacks to resource management, compatibility and performance. At its quarterly systems release event on Tuesday, Sun Microsystems made a number of announcements […]

Microsoft made a series of announcements last week regarding the future of the Windows operating system. After hedging the dates on the release of the next-generation versions of Windows for the past few years, it laid out a roadmap and time frame for the product line that extends almost into the next decade. /zimages/7/28571.gifRead more […]

Computers are handling more data than ever before, and though hard drives continue to grow larger and larger, theres still not enough space to store all of the files. In addition, administrators are saddled with the extra burden of ensuring that there are backups of that data—typically through the use of redundant arrays of inexpensive […]