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 ...

Will NFS become the predominant storage deployment method for VMware implementations? NFS didn't need to be saved, but because of VMware its use has been broadened beyond the traditional Unix ...

AWS makes S3 buckets usable as a file system for the first time. The service supports NFS 4.1+ and automatically synchronizes ...

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Dave Flynn, CEO of Hammerspace gave a talk at the 2023 IEEE Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST) conference at Santa Clara University where he discussed the benefits of creating NSF based ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have this one little issue with my home 3-node PVE cluster. One node is the fileserver with a large zfs pool exported via NFS to the other 2 nodes. This node also happens to be the one that boots ...