The Samba team isn't expecting to release Samba 4 until the first half of 2011 (optimistically) but work on support for Microsoft's SMB2 -- and older SMB/CIFS -- has moved ahead quite nicely. Samba ...

Server Message Block (SMB) has been around for decades, powering Windows file shares and becoming a staple of enterprise networks. But in the last few years, it’s started riding on top of Quick UDP ...

RDMA networking has enabled high-performance computing for years, but Windows Server 2012 R2 with SMB Direct is bringing it to the mainstream. File-based storage has grown tremendously over the last ...

In an attempt to warn IT and consumers, Microsoft has released a list of products that are using the flawed Server Message Block 1 (SMB 1). The insecure and long-deprecrated SMB 1 protocol made ...

While not quite a patch, Microsoft updated its security advisory by telling users to cut support for the SMBv2 protocol, accompanied by a link to the Microsoft "Fix It" package disabling the SMBv2 ...

SMB: server message block; a Microsoft file and printer sharing protocol. CIFS: common Internet filesystem; around 1996, Microsoft decided that SMB needed the word Internet in it, so they changed it ...

Microsoft this week started publishing a list of devices and software products that use Server Message Block 1 (SMB 1). The insecure and long-deprecrated SMB 1 protocol made headlines last month in ...

Two devastating global ransomware outbreaks, WannaCry and Petya, spread quickly because of a vulnerability in one of the internet's most ancient networking protocols, Server Message Block version 1 ...

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...