File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so – but ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Your array is RAID-6, which performs relatively poorly with small atomic writes. Your NFS file-system is set up as SYNC, which means that the I/O has to get to the server's disk before the write is ...

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 ...