RDMA networking has enabled high-performance computing for years, but Windows Server 2012 R2 with SMB Direct is bringing it to the mainstream. File-based storage has grown tremendously over the last ...

When you have a local network, you can have network storage — an SMB share on a file server, or a Network Attached Storage (NAS) box that everything on the network can access. Inside a cloud service, ...

Chrome OS is gaining better native support for SMB file sharing, one of the most common Windows file server protocols. As announced on Google+ by François Beaufort, the latest Canary builds of Chrome ...

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For sharing files between machines over a home network, it became essential for me to choose a consistent and relevant storage protocol rather than focusing solely on transfer speeds. Many home ...

With the release of Windows server 2012, Microsoft extended the capability of its flagship operating system by including a number of new storage features that enable Windows to provide the ...

The Server Message Block (SMB) file sharing protocol has been around since the dawn of time (anybody remember Windows for Workgroups?) With Longhorn operating systems (Server 2008, Vista, Windows 7), ...

Improving file access performance with behind-the-scenes caching One of the ways in which Server 2008’s new version of the Server Message Block protocol improves performance over the original version ...

I just upgraded my server, workstation and switch to gigabit. For large files it's great, i'm hitting 40MB/sec (both machines only have 32bit pci). <BR><BR>On small files or anything operating on a ...

Starting with this build (Build 25992), we are introducing the following Server Message Block (SMB) protocol changes. SMB firewall rule changes: Creating SMB shares changes a longtime Windows Defender ...