Clustered file systems can provide features like location-independent addressing and redundancy which improve reliability or reduce the complexity of the other parts of the cluster . "'Parallel file systems "'are a type of clustered file system that spread data across multiple storage nodes, usually for redundancy or performance.
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Clustered file systems can provide features like location-independent addressing and redundancy which improve reliability or reduce the complexity of the other parts of the cluster . "'Parallel file systems "'are a type of clustered file system that spread data across multiple storage nodes, usually for redundancy or performance.
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Clustered file systems enable servers to share direct, high-performance, concurrent access to data on a SAN . This enables IT organizations to increase storage and server utilization rates, independently scale server performance and storage capacity, deliver high availability for all workloads in the cluster, and dramatically simplify the management of large storage environments.
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For example, PolyServe Inc . offers a clustered file system based on commodity server and storage hardware that creates highly available utility computing environments for mission-critical applications including Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases, as well as workload optimized solutions specifically tuned for bulk storage, high-performance computing, vertical industries such as financial services, seismic processing, and content serving.
