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 ...

SMB (Server Message Block) is a network protocol that is used to share access to files, printers and serial ports between a Linux or Unix computer and a Windows computer. NFS (Network File System) is ...

I have two NFS servers and two CIFS servers, all four with a lustre backend. Users are running into problems that changes to files on one protocol are not visible on the other protocol. I have CTDB on ...

But both are worth considering.

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 ...

In this walkthrough, we show you how to easily store Final Cut Pro X libraries on a Synology NAS with just a few configuration steps. We’ve posted a prior solution before that utilized the NFS ...

Are you using or planning to use NFSv4 (Network File System version 4)? I wouldn’t be surprised if most of the answers to that question are a flat-out no or a quizzical stare, because this latest ...

I have an OS X 10.2.8 file server that has a single share point exported (shared) over NFS. My server has 10 NFS clients that map to it in a 24/7 production environment (each with a unique IP). All of ...

It's still a solid file-sharing protocol, though ...