We look at the three basic ways that storage accesses data – via file, block and object – as well as the ways in which the rise of the cloud and distributed systems have brought changes to them.

Despite the many changes in storage there are still some fundamentals that hold true. We look at the key defining characteristics and use cases of block, file and object storage ...

Stationery Pad is a handy way to nix a step in your workflow if you regularly use document templates on your Mac. The long-standing Finder feature essentially tells a file's parent application to ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced new file, block, disaster and backup recovery data services designed to help customers eliminat ...

Instead, a file is cloned when the file system says any future changes to the file are stored separately. The changed blocks are written in new blocks with pointers to the unchanged blocks.

HPE has launched what it’s calling “future of storage” with the launch of a new file storage offering and an expanded block storage service for HPE GreenLake.

Inodes store metadata and pointers to data blocks, block sizes determine the granularity of data storage, and various data structures organize and manage data within the filesystem. A solid ...

Office 2003 Service Pack 3, which was made available in September, blocks a lengthy list of word-processing file formats, including Word 6.0 and Word 97 for Windows and Word 2004 for Macintosh.

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- H&R Block (NYSE: HRB) today announced the launch of the Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting service by Block Advisors. This service was ...

A Spanish court has ordered the lifting of blocks that were imposed on six file-sharing sites accused of copyright infringement.