In the News
AuriStor: Next-Generation Global File System Brings Enhanced Security and Performance to Modern Data Centers
(13 October 2025 - New York, NY)
VMblog recently had the opportunity to learn more about AuriStor during the 64th edition of the IT Press Tour in New York. During an engaging technical deep-dive, Jeffrey Altman, Founder and CEO, and Gerry Seidman, President & Member of the Board, demonstrated how their technology is transforming distributed storage for modern enterprises.
"AuriStor is a technology company first and a product company second,"
explained Jeffrey Altman. "Our focus is on developing the tools our existing end users require as they evolve their computing infrastructures. Whether that be conversions to a containers-first world or deployment within new supercomputers."
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AuriStor rebuilt the Andrew File System to fix decades of technical debt and performance issues
(8 October 2025 - New York, NY)
AuriStor Tackles Distributed File System Performance With Protocol-Level Improvements. Most developers don't think much about distributed file systems until they hit a wall. You're moving files across continents, dealing with spotty connections, or trying to sync data for thousands of compute nodes. That's when you realize the infrastructure matters.
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How AuriStor Enables Global Data Access Without Storage-Based Pricing
(8 October 2025 - New York, NY)
AuriStor's distributed file system enables global data access for research and financial institutions, offering predictable costs and eliminating storage-based pricing. Read more ...
Auristor met le cap sur le stockage pour containers
(01 December 2022)
Le monde se déplace vers les containers, explique sans ambages le CEO et fondateur d'Auristor Jeffrey Altman. Et pour répondre à cette demande, la plateforme de stockage distribué qui repose sur le vénérable système de fichiers OpenAFS annonce le support de Kubernetes.
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AuriStor breathes life into Andrew File System
(23 November 2021)
AuriStorFS (a modern, licensed version of AFS) is a networked file system providing local access to files in a global namespace that has claimed higher performance, security and data integrity than public cloud-based file-sharing offerings such as Nasuni and Panzura.
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Right time for Andrew. The Filesystem that is.
(25 October 2021)
I couldn’t hold my excitement when I discovered Auristor® early last week. I stumbled upon this Computerweekly article “Want to side step Public Cloud? Auristor® offers global file storage.” Given the many news not exactly praising the public cloud storage vendors nowadays, the article’s title caught my attention. Immediately Andrew File System (AFS) was there. I was perplexed at first because I have never seen or heard a commercial version of AFS before. This news gave me goosebumps.
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Want to sidestep public cloud? AuriStor offers global file storage
(19 October 2021)
Built to scale hugely, and built for high performance and security, Auristor offers NAS-like Posix-compatible storage to customers that want to avoid public cloud
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Major Tech, Financial Companies Pony Up $10M to Help Drive U.S. Cybersecurity Efforts
(13 October 2021 - Los Angeles, CA)
Working together to bolster the security of open source software for enterprises in the U.S. and around the world, a group of technology and financial companies has amassed $10 million in new investments to raise their game, particularly in the battle against devastating supply chain cyberattacks.
The new funding was announced Oct. 13 (Wednesday) at the annual KubeCon North America conference. Additional funding will come from additional OpenSSF members Aiven, Anchore, Apiiro, AuriStor, Codethink, Cybertrust Japan, Deepfence, Devgistics, DTCC, GitLab, Goldman Sachs, JFrog, Nutanix, StackHawk, Tencent, TideLift and Wind River.
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AFS resists new approaches brought by the cloud
(12 October 2021)
Pretty famous in the past in the research and academic sector, the Andrew File System better known as AFS, continues to drive its own trajectory to control its destiny.
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AuriStor Wins the 2021 Digital Innovator Award from Intellyx
(2 June 2021 - Suffolk, VA)
Intellyx announced today that AuriStor has joined the inaugural class of their 2021 Digital Innovator Award. Intellyx is an industry analyst firm that focuses on enterprise digital transformation and the disruptive vendors that support it.
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AuriStor File System Certified by Red Hat for Enterprise Linux 8.4
(28 April 2021 - New York, NY)
AuriStor, Inc. announced that its entire AuriStor File System (AFS) suite including Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel modules are now certified by Red Hat for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4. This makes it AFS1 family software is certified for use on any Enterprise Linux distribution.
AuriStor CEO, Jeffrey Altman, cites Red Hat Enterprise Linux performance and stability as reasons to recommend Red Hat Enterprise Linux for AFS deployments, “Red Hat consistently delivers performance improvements release after release while providing the long term stability that ISVs and large scale enterprises require to support their end users. AuriStor’s collaboration with Red Hat enables AuriStor to provide certified AuriStorFS updates to our mutual customers within 24 hours of any Red Hat Enterprise Linux update.”
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Press Release: AuriStor File System Certified by Red Hat for Enterprise Linux 8.4
(27 April 2021 - New York, NY)
AuriStor, Inc. announced today that the entire AuriStor File System suite including Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel modules are now certified by Red Hat for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4. This makes AuriStorFS the only AFS-family software that is certified for use on any Enterprise Linux distribution.
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AuriStor, Inc. announces Gold Sponsorship of USENIX LISA 2021
(23 April 2021)
AuriStor, Inc. is proud to support the 2021 virtual edition of the USENIX Large Infrastructure and System Administration (LISA) conference with its Gold Sponsorship. LISA'21 will take place starting on 1 June 2021. Two related presentations include Hands-Off Testing for Networked Filesystems and Leveraging AFS Storage Systems to Ease Global Software Deployment on Thursday 3 June 2021.
Big Mountain Data and Dev Conference: Storage and Software Deployment: Bigger on the Inside
(19 November 2020)
Speaker: Tracy di Marco White, Goldman Sachs
Using a globally distributed file system as an object store to deploy software with minimal client disk space usage, minimal network usage, while being nearly invisible to end users, enabling rapid deployment of new software.
AuriStor’s next generation AFS and the Linux kernel AFS
(22 September 2020)
Speakers: David Howells and Jeffrey Altman
This talk is a follow-up to the 2010 SDC talk which focused on the importance of AFS family file systems
and why they are still in use 35 years after inception and 20 years after IBM released OpenAFS 1.0 under
the IBM Public License 1.0. This talk describes the future of AFS, as represented by AuriStorFS and the Linux
kernel.
AuriStor, Inc. supports 2020 AFS Technologies Workshop
(8 February 2020)
It has been five years since AuriStor and Teradactyl organized the
2015 North American AFS and Kerberos Best Practices Workshop.
This year AuriStor and Teradactyl are supporting its successor, the
AFS Technologies Workshop,
a conference open to all community members that use, deploy or develop technologies related to the
AFS family of file systems. For three days starting 15 June 2020 AuriStor and Teradactyl staff
will present many high quality technical talks as well as host a special
family-friendly networking event at the
Columbus Zoo.
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AuriStor, Inc. announces Training Day 2020
(8 February 2020)
AuriStor and Teradactyl invite all AuriStor File System and
True incremental Backup System
licensees to join us for a FREE day focused on getting the most out of your deployments.
The 2020 Training Day is conveniently scheduled on 18 June 2020 following the
2020 AFS Technologies Workshop.
Training Day will provide Teradactyl and AuriStor the opportunity to present our latest technologies,
and discuss subjects at greater depth than can be accommodated by the AFS Technologies Workshop format.
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AuriStor, Inc. sponsors 2nd Linux AFS Hackathon and BoF at USENIX Vault'20
(16 Dec 2019)
AuriStor, Inc. is pleased to sponsor and invite AFS and Linux kernel developers to the third Linux kernel AFS (kAFS) Hackathon and Birds of a Feather meeting. The hackathon and BoF will be co-located with the USENIX Vault '20 - Linux Storage and Filesystems Conference. Read more...
AuriStor, Inc. announces Platinum sponsorship of the HEPiX Spring 2019 Workshop
(Jan 2, 2019)
AuriStor, Inc. is proud to be the Platinum sponsor of the HEPiX Spring 2019 Workshop. AuriStor, Inc. is excited to contribute to the results of the high energy and nuclear physics communities.
AuriStor, Inc. sponsors 2nd Linux AFS Hackathon and BoF at USENIX Vault'19
(Jan 2, 2019)
AuriStor, Inc. is pleased to sponsor and invite AFS and Linux kernel developers to the second Linux kernel AFS (kAFS) Hackathon and Birds of a Feather meeting. The hackathon and BoF will be co-located with the USENIX Vault '19 - Linux Storage and Filesystems Conference. Read more...
AuriStor, Inc. renews its membership in the SPEC Consortium for 2019.
(Jan 1, 2019)
AuriStor, Inc. has renewed its membership in the SPEC Open Systems Group for 2019 and continues its contributions to improvements of the SPEC Solution File Server benchmark.
AuriStor, Inc. renews USENIX Corporate Membership.
(September 20, 2017)
AuriStor, Inc. renews USENIX Corporate Membership.
AuriStor, Inc. joins the SPEC Consortium.
(Jan 23, 2018)
AuriStor, Inc. has joined the SPEC Open Systems Group in order to contribute improvements to the SPEC Solution File Server benchmark.
AuriStor, Inc. joins USENIX as a Corporate Member.
(September 20, 2017)
AuriStor, Inc. has joined USENIX as a Corporate Member.
AFS Wins 2016 ACM Software System Award
ACM (May 3, 2017)
The ACM Software System Award is presented to an institution or individual(s) recognized for developing a software system that has had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to concepts, in commercial acceptance, or both. The Software System Award carries a prize of $35,000. Financial support for the Software System Award is provided by IBM. Read more...
YourFileSystem, what if you change to a secure file system?
IT Social (July 7, 2014)
It's in the old pots that we make... YourFileSystem is a start-up that bases its product on the judicious exploitation of a 30 year old university project, foundation of a secure file system protocol which is nothing less than a scalable Software-defined Storage solution for cloud computing. Read more...
Diary: ElCorrespondente day in Silicon Valley
LANline (June 30, 2014)
The last stop of the tour is YFS, and again we meet in the premises of a contractor (somehow friends with YFS), because even YFS has no office on the west coast. The small team of four permanent and twelve freelancers is otherwise based in New York. Read more...