WAFS works by reducing the “chattiness” of Microsoft’s CIFS and the Unix/Linux NFS protocols. It also works by decreasing the latency of WAN communications by eliminating much of the round-trip ...

The speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second. According to Einstein, it's a rule that can't be broken; a universal constant that does not change. It's also the maximum speed at which data can ...

Start-up WebFS Inc. wants to simplify multivendor file and application access for corporate network users, regardless of their operating or file systems. Salem, Mass.-based WebFS says it has designed ...

A new class of products enables file caching over WANs, making it possible to access data over long distances at LAN speeds. Storage-caching devices eliminate the delays that typically plague remote ...

Common Internet File System is a remote file access protocol that forms the basis for Windows file sharing. CIFS performs poorly over high-latency WAN links because it’s chatty, meaning a large number ...