Explore the differences between NFS and SMB for local file sharing, including speed, compatibility, and setup complexity.

I use SMB over NFS for home lab file sharing, thanks to cross-platform support, improved performance with SMB3, and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...