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 ...

From what I know the most common file sharing protocols are NFS, SMB and WebDAV. On the Windows side NFS only seems available in th premium offering, from what I can gather? Are there other popular ...

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 ...

Here at Miami, we have a lot of systems running to keep the campus afloat. With those systems comes data and files that need to be stored. As one can imagine, with a footprint as big as Miami's, that ...

Files: quickly getting bigger. Networks: slowly getting faster. Something's got to give. Here's the scoop. Parallel NFS: standards-based parallel file serving The Network File System (NFS) is the ...

Network-attached storage is rapidly becoming the de facto standard for file sharing on TCP/IP networks, as companies consolidate file storage on special-purpose file-server devices using such ...

Q: How do I NFS mount a filesystem on other Linux machines? A: NFS, or Network File System, is a technology that was introduced into the Unix world by Sun Microsystems. It allows a computer to mount a ...

Using networked file systems is a common method for sharing disk space on UNIX-like systems, including Linux. Sun was the first to embrace this technology by introducing the Network File System (NFS), ...

Improvements in network-attached storage density and performance target unstructured data workloads. Here's how a NAS server works, how it is different from a SAN, and what IT buyers want in ...

Following an extended preview period, Amazon’s Elastic File System is now generally available in three geographical regions, with more on the way. Originally announced last year, EFS is a fully ...