Oracle Offers File Management Package for Cloud

From PC World: Hoping to service the growing market for cloud computing systems, Oracle has packaged two file management software programs into a single integrated offering, called the Oracle Cloud File System, the company announced Monday.

The package "allows you to have a clustered file system built on automatic storage foundation," said Bob Thome, an Oracle director of product management. Such a clustered file system could be useful for organizations building internal clouds, or for testing cloud applications before dispatching them to an external hosting service, Thome said.

The programs included in the package are the ASM (Automatic Storage Management) Dynamic Volume Manager and the ASM Cluster File System. "Cloud FS is a new name for these technologies that are built on ASM," Thome said.

The ASM Cluster File System is a peer-to-peer-based file system that allows users to save material across a range of servers and to access that material from any one of those servers. In addition to being accessed directly through any node on the cluster, data can also be accessed by network file system protocols such as the NFS (Network File System) or Microsoft's CIFS (Common Internet File System).

The file system offers a number of advanced features possibly helpful for the administrator. An advanced permissions system allows administrators to specify when a file can be accessed and with what applications it can be accessed.

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