I've built and used countless systems, powered by both Linux and Windows, but I've usually resorted to Network File System (NFS) for the majority of my Unix-based installations. Once I started messing ...

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 ...

Improvements in network-attached storage density and performance target unstructured data workloads. Here's how a NAS server works, how it is different from a SAN, and what IT buyers want in ...

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