The authors develop a holistic framework for adaptively scheduling asynchronous requests in distributed file systems. The system is holistic in that it manages all resources, including network ...

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 ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 03, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP), the data authority in a hybrid cloud world, today announced that it is the data services technology of choice behind first-of ...

Many companies are using open source Linux servers for DNS/DHCP servers and Web servers, but it is also possible to use Linux or UNIX as a file server. The Network File System has been around for many ...

We have spent so much time talking about new file systems this summer that it only seems fair to give a bit of space to NFS, the Network File System that Sun first gave us about 20 years ago. Because ...

The OpenVZ server virtualization project recently announced a new version of its software with new features that give administrators more flexibility and networking options when deploying virtualized ...

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 ...

Microsoft and NetApp are working to deliver a native version of the storage provider's Network File System (NFS) for Azure. The new Enterprise NFS Service is based on NetApp's flagship Data ONTAP ...

Business critical and network-attached storage (NAS) are terms rarely seen together. Storage area network (SAN)-based storage built on Fibre Channel infrastructure has dominated enterprise datacentres ...

Microsoft has forged a deal with a University of Michigan research unit to create an open-source version of the NFS (Network File System) version 4 protocol that will work with Windows. Microsoft ...