What’s the best way to store and manage data in a virtualized environment? For IT administrators and system architects, this question is more than theoretical—it’s a critical decision that impacts ...

SMB (Server Message Block) is a network protocol that is used to share access to files, printers and serial ports between a Linux or Unix computer and a Windows computer. NFS (Network File System) is ...

I have two NFS servers and two CIFS servers, all four with a lustre backend. Users are running into problems that changes to files on one protocol are not visible on the other protocol. I have CTDB on ...

June 2, 2011, 8:46 AM EDT / Source: GlobeNewswire BELLEVUE, Wash., June 2, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Storage in the cloud, as well as physical and virtual environments, across Linux, Unix and Windows ...

WAFS works by reducing the “chattiness” of Microsoft’s CIFS and the Unix/Linux NFS protocols. It also works by decreasing the latency of WAN communications by eliminating much of the round-trip ...

In July, Microsoft announced that shared disks in Azure Disk Storage had reached general availability. Following on from that, a few days later, the tech giant revealed NFS 3.0 support for Blob ...

Are you using or planning to use NFSv4 (Network File System version 4)? I wouldn’t be surprised if most of the answers to that question are a flat-out no or a quizzical stare, because this latest ...

Ever found yourself juggling multiple virtual machine (VM) hosts, only to be bogged down by scattered storage, sluggish migrations, or the constant fear of data loss? Managing VM storage can feel like ...

In this walkthrough, we show you how to easily store Final Cut Pro X libraries on a Synology NAS with just a few configuration steps. We’ve posted a prior solution before that utilized the NFS ...

I have an OS X 10.2.8 file server that has a single share point exported (shared) over NFS. My server has 10 NFS clients that map to it in a 24/7 production environment (each with a unique IP). All of ...

The National Security Agency (NSA) is pitching its own high-security access control technology for the next version of the Network File System (NFS) protocol. NSA presented its so-called Labeled NFS ...