You want to pass TCP traffic from one computer to another, but there’s a doggone firewall in the way. Can they both see a shared file? Turns out, that’s all you need. Well, that and some software from ...

Amazon has had storage options for Linux file servers for some time, but it recognizes that a number of companies still use Windows file servers, and they are not content to cede that market to ...

[The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those of Google, Inc. my current employer.] I don't often write about my day to day work, but sometimes I run across a problem that is so ...

While the majority of workloads in the cloud are Linux-based, Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Andy Jassy said he is well aware that Windows is still significant, and as a result, his company on ...

A high-speed computer in a network that stores the programs and data files shared by users. It acts like a remote disk drive. The difference between a file server and an application server is that the ...

Customization: meDrive settings are accessible through a browser. Kanex’s meDrive is supposed to make it easy to set up a file server on your home network. It’s a small device that you plug into your ...

Most small businesses don’t use file servers, a specialized PC that is just used to share files among workers. In the past, these PCs were expensive, ran a different operating system from the ordinary ...

The importance of automating processes can’t be overestimated. Most things start out as a manual procedure until you work out exactly how things should happen, but many times they stay that way ...

Apple was the first computer company to make networked file sharing easy. Decades after introducing that feature on the Mac, it’s less important in an era of cloud storage. Unless you’re on a ...

I'm looking to spec out an expansion array for our existing iSCSI SAN to house the disks for the data portion of our file server. I'm looking for something in the neighborhood of 2TB to 3TB usable ...