The authors develop a holistic framework for adaptively scheduling asynchronous requests in distributed file systems. The system is holistic in that it manages all resources, including network ...

Q: How do I NFS mount a filesystem on other Linux machines? A: NFS, or Network File System, is a technology that was introduced into the Unix world by Sun Microsystems. It allows a computer to mount a ...

From what I know the most common file sharing protocols are NFS, SMB and WebDAV. On the Windows side NFS only seems available in th premium offering, from what I can gather? Are there other popular ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 03, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP), the data authority in a hybrid cloud world, today announced that it is the data services technology of choice behind first-of ...

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 ...

Last month we began discussing typical file systems, starting first with local and shared file systems, then moving into the network file system. The network file system (also known as a proxy file ...

File systems, at the broadest of perspectives, have continually evolved functionally and dimensionally over the past several years. Once confined to disk drives and computer software applications that ...

The OpenVZ server virtualization project recently announced a new version of its software with new features that give administrators more flexibility and networking options when deploying virtualized ...

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 ...