Okay so we all know of windows HA clusters. Most also know of DFS for providing high availability to file servers. What I am looking for is the most transparent/seamless failover mechanism possible ...

There's some talk where I am about the possibility of replacing a file server which is currently mounting SAN storage provided by our NetApp appliance over fiber, with just serving the files directly ...

In the cloud market, Amazon Web Services Inc. is the largest public cloud provider, accounting for nearly 50% of the entire market, according to global analyst Gartner Inc. Yet, until last year’s ...

Amazon has had storage options for Linux file servers for some time, but it recognizes that a number of companies still use Windows file servers, and they are not content to cede that market to ...

A Windows file server can contain a huge variety of data. Some of this data is understandably more sensitive than other data. Traditionally we have grouped data into folders according to its purpose ...

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While the majority of workloads in the cloud are Linux-based, Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Andy Jassy said he is well aware that Windows is still significant, and as a result, his company on ...

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