If you have two or more machines, you may wish to share disk space or devices, such as a CD drive, between machines. For this there is network filesystem (NFS), the easiest way of sharing files and ...

For years we have used Sun Solaris servers sharing filesytems (/home etc) via NFS to other Unix servers and Samba to users' desktops. This has worked extremely well but our primary file server is due ...

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 ...

Microsoft has sponsored research at the University of Michigan to develop an open source Network File System client for Windows. Michigan's Center for Information Technology Integration also developed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) lets you make the contents of a file-based server available to resources in a different AWS region. Amazon Web Services (AWS) makes it possible to synchronize the contents of ...

Elastifile has launched an NFS-based file access storage service in partnership with Google’s cloud marketplace, Cloud Launcher. It is a ready-to-deploy cloud iteration that extends its distributed ...