kiarataylor pNFS Metadata Server Sizing: Keeping Namespace Operations Off the Data Path Parallel NFS has a simple pitch: let clients talk straight to the data servers and keep the middleman out of the bulk transfer path. Recent announcements around parallel NFS with metadata separated fr... Oct 7, 2026 The Power of NAS in Business Data Management
kiarataylor Samba Audit Logging on NAS: Building an Authentication Trail Auditors Can Use An auditor asks a simple question: who opened the payroll folder last March, and from where? If your answer involves guessing, you have a logging problem, not a storage problem. Samba 4.24, released o... Oct 7, 2026 The Power of NAS in Business Data Management
kiarataylor NAS Tenant Quotas: Fair Sharing and Isolation on a Multi-Tenant Filer One filer, six business units, and a single analytics job that eats the whole array on a Tuesday afternoon. Sound familiar? File platforms are being pushed toward real multi-tenancy; in October 2026 a... Oct 7, 2026 The Power of NAS in Business Data Management
kiarataylor Duplicate File Copies on NAS: Finding the Real File Among Four Versions You open the project share and find budget.xlsx, budget_final.xlsx, budget_final_v2.xlsx and a file labelled "conflicted copy". Which one is real? Nobody on the team is sure, and the timestamps disagr... Oct 6, 2026 The Power of NAS in Business Data Management
kiarataylor ARM-Based ZFS NAS: What Low-Power Hardware Can and Cannot Carry Small, quiet, sips-of-power boards make an appealing pitch for file storage. They cost little, idle at a few watts, and fit on a shelf. NASCompares published a test on 2 October 2026 of ZFS running on... Oct 6, 2026 The Power of NAS in Business Data Management
kiarataylor Swordfish Storage Management: Standardizing How NAS Platforms Report and Are Managed Anyone who runs more than one storage system knows the drill. One array exposes SNMP traps, another offers a REST API with its own vocabulary, a third insists on a vendor console, and your monitoring ... Oct 6, 2026 The Power of NAS in Business Data Management
kiarataylor OpenZFS Pool Upgrade: A Careful Checklist Before You Enable New Feature Flags New OpenZFS releases arrive with attractive additions: better quota handling, faster encryption code, improved block cloning, and options such as placing the intent log on special devices. Installing ... Oct 5, 2026 The Power of NAS in Business Data Management
kiarataylor NFS LOCALIO: Skipping the Network Stack When Client and Server Share a Host Containers and virtual machines have changed where file clients live. It is now common for an NFS client and the NFS server it talks to to run on the very same physical host, yet every request still t... Oct 5, 2026 The Power of NAS in Business Data Management
kiarataylor NFS Re-Export: Using a Caching Gateway to Extend NAS Reach to Remote Sites Sometimes the data you need sits far from the people and compute that want it. Copying everything everywhere is wasteful, and mounting a distant server directly makes every access slow. NFS re-export ... Oct 5, 2026 The Power of NAS in Business Data Management
kiarataylor NAS Key Management: Who Holds the Keys to Your Encrypted Shares? NAS Key Management: Who Holds the Keys to Your Encrypted Shares? Encryption at rest is now a checkbox on nearly every array, and that is exactly the problem. The checkbox answers whether data is encry... Oct 1, 2026 The Power of NAS in Business Data Management
kiarataylor NAS Snapshot Scanning: Checking Recovery Points Before You Need Them NAS Snapshot Scanning: Checking Recovery Points Before You Need Them Nobody wants to learn on restore day that the last forty snapshots already contain encrypted files. That scenario is behind a quiet... Oct 1, 2026 The Power of NAS in Business Data Management
kiarataylor NAS Data Reduction Ratios: Why Compression, Dedup and Clones Rarely Add Up NAS Data Reduction Ratios: Why Compression, Dedup and Clones Rarely Add Up Spec sheets love to multiply. Compression saves this much, deduplication saves that much, clones save more, and the total loo... Sep 30, 2026 The Power of NAS in Business Data Management