In this third and final blog post on NFS (see previous blog posts Why NFSv4.1 and pNFS are Better than NFSv3 Could Ever Be and The Advantages of NFSv4.1) I’ll cover pNFS (parallel NFS), an optional feature of NFSv4.1 that improves the bandwidth available for NFS protocol access, and some of the proposed features of …Read More

Seamus Crehan, President, Crehan Research Inc. 2H12 results 2012 turned out be another very strong growth year for 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE), with the data center switch market and the server-class adapter and LAN-on-Motherboard (LOM) market both growing more than 50%. Broad long-term trends such as virtualization, convergence, data center network traffic growth, cloud deployments, …Read More

Storage traffic running over Ethernet-based networks has been around for as long as we have had Ethernet-based networks. Of course sometimes it is technically not accurate to think of the protocols as fundamentally Ethernet protocols – whilst FCoE, by definition, only runs on Ethernet, iSCSI, SMB, and NFS, they are, in reality, IP-based storage protocols …Read More