What is Common Internet File System (CIFS)? Common Internet File System (CIFS) is a protocol that gained popularity around Year 2000 as vendors worked to establish an Internet Protocol-based ...

In order to share files on a network in the past “classic” Mac operating system, you had to access and set up items in several locations. First, you needed to enable file sharing in one location, then ...

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 ...

When configuring your network-attached storage (NAS) for sending and receiving files from clients, several protocols are available. The two most common are Server Message Block (SMB) and Network File ...

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 ...

News about the new release of OS X, “Mavericks,” is trickling out as developers and other WWDC attendees post information about it to the Internet. However, hidden a bit down in Apple’s OS X Mavericks ...

It has been a decade since the first version of the Network Data Management Protocol was launched as an effort to solve the problems posed by the backup and recovery of network file servers. Initial ...

Media files now consume enormous amounts of storage, growing at a scale that has led to the termination of integrated drives in dedicated media server chassis. Future systems will need to be attached ...

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Although it didn’t make the keynote cut, one of the bigger news items for developers today is that Apple is rolling out a new file system for storage for all its products: The Apple File System (APFS) ...