Good post by Stephen Foskett (thank you)
Microsoft is about to release the third major revision to their ubiquitous network storage protocol, SMB. Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V 3 will really highlight this technology, and I predict it will transform the way people think about networked storage for Windows systems. But SMB 3 is big in another way, too: there are tons of new features, and not all will be implemented by everyone.
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amigasger
/ June 20, 2012Im agreeing – SMB 3 will be huge. Its just so sad that it won’t be implemented in Windows 7. Especially the new Failover-implementations are really awesome. I hope Microsoft will change their decission about this. It would be more than welcome.
Tim Boothby
/ December 19, 2012Agreed, it sounds great, but as Windows 8 just isn’t a credible enterprise OS, nobody will actually be able to make use of it.