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 ...

Last month we began discussing typical file systems, starting first with local and shared file systems, then moving into the network file system. The network file system (also known as a proxy file ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so – but ...

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 ...