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CIFS(Common Internet File System) The file sharing protocol used in Windows. It evolved out of the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol in DOS, which is why the terms CIFS/SMB and SMB/CIFS are sometimes seen. The word "Internet" in the CIFS name has little relevance. It stems back to the 1996/97 time frame when Microsoft submitted CIFS to the IETF, but that draft has expired. See file sharing protocol, SMB and Samba.
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According to Joe Skorupa, Principal Analyst at Gartner, "Accelerating Exchange, CIFS, and web application performance as part of a broad-based architecture for application acceleration removes a major obstacle to server centralization projects. All major file sharing protocols, including NFS (Network Filesystem for Unix/Linux environments), CIFS (Common Internet Filesystem for Windows environments), and IPX/SPX (Internetwork Packet Exchange/Sequenced Packet Exchange for Novell environments) were designed for LAN environments where clients and servers were located in the same building or campus. Windows users can map a Windows network drive via CIFS (the CAStor Cluster looks like a Windows file system). |
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