The LTFS LTO filesystem allows modern digital tape storage to be used like NAS filesystems and simplifies the use of magnetic tape libraries and allows faster access to the content stored on them.
Microsoft's Distributed Systems group utilized a new filesystem architecture, dubbed Flat Datacenter Storage, over a full bisection bandwidth network to burn through the competition.
Using DDN's SFA12K-40 storage systems as the backbone for Spider II, this new file storage system is designed with 40 petabytes of raw capacity and is capable of ingesting, storing, processing and distributing research data at unprecedented speed.