Fusion SMB instead of Windows Server: why?
By Ned Pyle
Heya folks, it’s Ned Pyle again. Last year I talked about how Fusion SMB stacks up to Samba in enterprise workloads. If you run or integrate cloud, machine learning, media & entertainment, or HPC services, Fusion SMB is the right choice for Linux file servers. But what about Windows Server? After all, Microsoft created SMB 3 and should have the best solution, right? I led that engineering effort for 12 years in Puget Sound and I know Windows’ limits better than most. Let’s see how Fusion beats Microsoft at its own game for scale, performance, security, and customer scenarios. Scale The Windows SMB server is a kernel mode driver and scales well; I’ve seen servers with many thousands of client connections. In one memorable org, admins created a share for each user in the […]