I found that the best way to make sense of this industry is to think of it in terms of the lifecycles of files.

(1) The low-level file management handled by the operating system. See file system. (2) Software that manages data files. See file management system. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.

As long as a file management system is used rather than a database management system (DBMS), the program that processes the first file structure would have to be changed to process the second.

At last, Microsoft appears to be taking action with its Resilient File System (ReFS) technology. Despite being 14 years old, ...