I have two NFS servers and two CIFS servers, all four with a lustre backend. Users are running into problems that changes to files on one protocol are not visible on the other protocol. I have CTDB on ...

In this video from the LAD’14 Conference in Reims, Chris Gouge from Seagate presents: Building a CIFS/NFS Gateway to Lustre. The ClusterStor CIFS / NFS Gateway feature provides Windows and Linux ...

I am in the process of a huge infrastrucure change and large purchase of a NetApp 2050 (20 300GB SAS, CIFS, iSCSI, (NFS option?)). The goal is to virtualize approx 8 servers on two IBM 3650's with ...

WAFS works by reducing the “chattiness” of Microsoft’s CIFS and the Unix/Linux NFS protocols. It also works by decreasing the latency of WAN communications by eliminating much of the round-trip ...

NuView is shipping the latest version of its distributed file-data management package. StorageX 5.5 adds the ability for administrators to build “a unified global namespace across CIFS and NFS ...

Sun Microsystems Inc.'s recent donation of source code that implements the Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol to the OpenSolaris project will enable Windows users to store and retrieve files ...

Bus-and-Tag parallel channel architecture was once the primary storage interface used by IBM mainframes. As mainframes evolved, the ESCON architecture broadly replaced Bus-and-Tag. ESCON is now being ...

The UB File Service is a highly-available file service. The service is accessible via multiple protocols, such as SMB, cifs and nfs. File space is assigned to individuals and to groups for ...

DataDirect Networks is a well-known provider of high-end storage solutions for HPC applications that rely on fast parallel file systems, like GPFS and Lustre. The HPC world will definitely benefit ...