Flashcards: Network file systems

HBase is an open source, non-relational, distributed database modeled after Google's BigTable and is written in Java.

Tarsnap is a secure online backup service for UNIX-like operating systems, including BSD, Linux and OS X.

Moose File System (MooseFS) is an Open-source, POSIX-compliant distributed file system developed by Core Technology.

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is an online file storage web service offered by Amazon Web Services.

The Apple Filing Protocol (AFP), formerly AppleTalk Filing Protocol, is a proprietary network protocol, and part of the Apple File Service (AFS), that offers file services for macOS and the classic Mac OS.

GMail Drive was a free third-party Windows Shell namespace extension ("add-on") for Google's Gmail.

In computing, SSHFS (SSH Filesystem) is a filesystem client to mount and interact with directories and files located on a remote server or workstation over a normal ssh connection.

9P (or the Plan 9 Filesystem Protocol or Styx) is a network protocol developed for the Plan 9 from Bell Labs distributed operating system as the means of connecting the components of a Plan 9 system.

In computing, Ceph, a free-software storage platform, implements object storage on a single distributed computer cluster, and provides interfaces for object-, block- and file-level storage.

Elliptics is a distributed key-value data storage with open source code.

GlusterFS is a scale-out network-attached storage file system.

Lustre is a type of parallel distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing.

OpenAFS is an open source implementation of the Andrew distributed file system (AFS).

DigitalOcean, Inc.

Open Scalable File Systems, Inc.

InterMezzo was a distributed file system written for the Linux kernel, distributed under the GNU General Public License.

Red Hat Gluster Storage is a computer storage product from Red Hat.

Google Cloud Storage is a RESTful online file storage web service for storing and accessing data on Google's infrastructure.

activEcho, created by GroupLogic, Inc.

Network File System (NFS) is a distributed file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1984, allowing a user on a client computer to access files over a computer network much like local storage is accessed.

The DCE Distributed File System (DCE/DFS) is the remote file access protocol used with the Distributed Computing Environment.

A clustered file system is a file system which is shared by being simultaneously mounted on multiple servers.

ExtremeZ-IP, an Apple Filing Protocol server from GroupLogic, Inc, (Arlington, Virginia, USA), runs on Windows operating systems enabling Mac clients to access files via the Apple Filing (AFP 3.3) protocol.

GroupLogic, Inc., founded in 1988 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, USA, is an enterprise software company that develops, sells and supports software for moving and storing data including activEcho, mobilEcho, ArchiveConnect, MassTransit and ExtremeZ-IP.

XtreemFS is an object-based, distributed file system for wide area networks.

(Not to be confused with Linux kernel dcache.) dCache is a system for storing and retrieving huge amounts of data, distributed among a large number of heterogenous server nodes, under a single virtual filesystem tree with a variety of standard access methods.

CIFSSRV is an open source in-kernel CIFS/SMB server created by Namjae Jeon for the Linux kernel.

LizardFS is an open source distributed file system that is POSIX-compliant and licensed under GPLv3.

BeeGFS is a parallel file system, developed and optimized for high-performance computing.

ObjectiveFS is a distributed file system developed by Objective Security Corp.

Cartika Internet Solutions Provider Inc.

Gfarm file system is an open source distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing and wide-area data sharing, and provides features to manage replica location explicitly.

BOSH is an open source project which offers a tool chain for release engineering, deployment & life-cycle management of large scale distributed services.

mobilEcho, created by GroupLogic, Inc.

Magma is a distributed file system based on a distributed hash table, written in C, compatible with Linux and BSD kernels using FUSE.

RozoFS is a free software distributed file system.

OpenShift is Red Hat's supported enterprise grade distribution of Kubernetes leveraging Docker containers and adds DevOps tools for accelerated application development.

Cloud Foundry is an open source cloud computing platform as a service (PaaS) originally developed by VMware and now overseen by the Cloud Foundry Foundation.

In computer networking davfs2 is a Linux tool for connecting to WebDAV shares as though they were local disks.

Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that allows clients to perform remote Web content authoring operations.

The Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS) is an open source parallel file system.