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AlexMcDonald
October 12, 2020
How Can You Keep Data in Transit Secure?
It’s well known that data is often considered less secure while in mot
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October 7, 2020
Not Again! Data Deduplication for Storage Systems
As explained in our webcast on Data Reduction, “
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September 23, 2020
Non-Cryptic Answers to Common Cryptography Questions
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July 15, 2020
Applied Cryptography Techniques and Use Cases
The rapid growth in infrastructure to support real time and continuous
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May 27, 2020
Encryption Q&A
Ever wonder how encryption actually works?
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April 20, 2020
Encryption 101: Keeping Secrets Secret
Encryption has been used through the ages to protect information, auth
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December 21, 2018
Networking for Hyperconvergence
“Why can’t I add a 33rd node?” One of the great advantages
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May 1, 2018
FCoE vs. iSCSI vs. iSER: Get Ready for Another Great Storage Debate
As a follow up our first two hugely successful “Great Storage Debate”
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March 7, 2018
Fibre Channel vs. iSCSI – The Great Debate Generates Questions Galore
The SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum recently hosted the first of our “Grea
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February 5, 2018
The Great Debates – Our Next Webcast Series
The SNIA ESF is announcing a new series of webcasts, following our hug
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December 31, 2017
FC vs. iSCSI – The Debate Continues
It’s one of the great IT debates: Fibre Channel (FC) or iSCSI.
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April 7, 2017
Q&A on All Things iSCSI
In the recent SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum iSCSI pod webcast, from our
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February 23, 2017
Rock n’ Roll with SMB3
Server Message Block (SMB) is the core file-transfer protocol of Wi
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October 20, 2015
New White Paper: An Updated Overview of NFSv4
Maybe you’ve asked yourself recently; “Hmm, I wonder what’s new in
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October 16, 2015
OpenStack Manila – A Q&A on Liberty and Mitaka
Our recent Webcast with OpenStack Manila OpenStack Manila Project T
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September 11, 2015
What to Expect from OpenStack Manila Liberty
On October 7, 2015, the SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum is pleased to p
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May 28, 2015
NFS 4.2 Q&A
We received several great questions at our
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May 26, 2015
New Webcast: Block Storage in the Open Source Cloud called OpenStack
On June 3rd at 10:00 a.m.
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April 13, 2015
Next Webcast: What’s New in NFS 4.2
We’re excited to announce our next ESF Webcast on
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June 19, 2014
Object Storage 101 – Questions and Answers
At our recent live ESF Webcast, “
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April 9, 2014
The IETF, Consensus and NFSv4
The Internet Engineering Task Force
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November 19, 2013
SMB 3.0 – Your Questions Asked and Answered
Last week we had a large and highly-engaged audience at our live We
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November 6, 2013
SUSE Announces NFSv4.1 and pNFS Support
SUSE, founded in 1992, provides an enterprise ready Linux distribut
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April 30, 2013
pNFS and Future NFSv4.2 Features
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February 19, 2013
The Advantages of NFSv4.1
In a previous blog post Why
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December 18, 2012
Why NFSv4.1 and pNFS are Better than NFSv3 Could Ever Be
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September 20, 2012
NFSv4.1 Webcast Q&A
Our recent Webcast: NFSv4.1 – Plan for a Smooth Migration was very
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May 23, 2011
Beyond Potatoes – Migrating from NFSv3
“It is a mistake to think you can solve
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