I wasn't really expecting it to just work out of the box, but NFS is surprisingly viable.

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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 ...

Version 4.1 of the Network File System protocol is now supported on Azure Files. It will be provided to customers in the form of a fully managed NFS file system as a service, in preview for now. With ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...