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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

As storage changes, Microsoft has kept up with its latest offerings. See how fast it can be with this hands-on test. When Microsoft decided to create its own software-defined storage (SDS) stack, ...

It’s time to take advantage of new storage and file networking features in the latest Windows releases. While much of the story around Windows Server 2022 is about its role as a key element in ...

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 ...

I was just reading about the new SMB 3.0 features that will be released with Server 2012 and Windows 8. One of the features that really has me intrigued is the new SMB Multichannel. SMB Multichannel ...

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). On small files or anything operating on a bunch of ...

One of the big new additions to the Files app in iOS 13 is the ability to connect to a server via SMB. In the initial iOS 13 beta, attempting such a connection resulted in an error, but in iOS 13 beta ...