Network file systems

3+Share - 3+Share was a pioneering file and print sharing product from 3Com.

9P - 9P is a network protocol developed for the Plan 9 from Bell Labs distributed operating system as the means of connecting the components of a Plan 9 system.

Amazon S3 - Amazon S3 is an online storage web service offered by Amazon Web Services.

Andrew File System - The Andrew File System is a distributed networked file system which uses a set of trusted servers to present a homogeneous, location-transparent file name space to all the client workstations.

Apple Filing Protocol - The Apple Filing Protocol is a network protocol that offers file services for Mac OS X and original Mac OS. In Mac OS X, AFP is one of several file services supported including Server Message Bl...

AppleShare - AppleShare was a product from Apple Computer which implemented various network services.

Arla (file system) - Arla is an implementation of the AFS distributed file system developed at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

CacheFS - CacheFS is the name used for several similar software technologies designed to speed up Network file system file access for networked computers.

Chiron FS - Chiron Filesystem is a fault tolerant replication file system.

Cifs - In computer networking, Server Message Block operates as an application-layer network protocol mainly used to provide shared access to files, printers, serial ports, and miscellaneous communicat...

Cisco WAAS - Cisco wide area application services is technology developed by Cisco Systems that optimizes the performance of any TCP-based application operating in a wide area network environment while pres...

Coda (file system) - Coda is a network file system developed as a research project at Carnegie Mellon University since 1987 under the direction of Mahadev Satyanarayanan.

Coherent file distribution protocol - Coherent File Distribution Protocol is an IETF-documented experimental protocol intended for high-speed one-to-many file transfers.

CRFS - Oracle has begun work on CRFS, a network file system protocol intended to leverage the Btrfs architecture to gain higher performance than existing protocols and to expose Btrfs features such as ...

Data Stream Interface - The Data Stream Interface is a session layer used to carry Apple Filing Protocol traffic over Transmission Control Protocol.

Dataverse - Dataverse is a virtual archive where data sets can be listed and used to create collections of data.

davfs2 - davfs2 is an open-source GPL-licensed file system for mounting WebDAV servers.

DCE Distributed File System - The DCE Distributed File System is the remote file access protocol used with the Distributed Computing Environment.

Distributed file system - In computing, a distributed file system or network file system is any file system that allows access to files from multiple hosts sharing via a computer network.

Distributed File System (Microsoft) - Distributed File System is a set of client and server services that allow an organization utilizing Microsoft Windows servers to organize many distributed SMB file shares into a distributed file...

ExaStore - ExaStore, a clustered NAS solution from Exanet, comprises a patented NAS software, including the fully distributed ExaFS file system, Intel-based Linux servers, standard gigabit Ethernet network...

ExtremeZ-IP - ExtremeZ-IP, a Apple Filing Protocol server from Group Logic, Inc,, runs on Windows operating systems enabling Mac clients to access files via the Apple Filing protocol.

File Access Listener - File Access Listener is an implementation of the Data Access Protocol, a network file system protocol developed by Digital Equipment Corporation as part of DECnet suite of network protocols.

File Replication Service - File Replication Service is a Microsoft Windows Server service for distributing folders stored in the SYSVOL shared folder on domain controllers and Distributed File System shared folders.

Files-11 - Files-11, also known as on-disk structure, is the file system used by Hewlett-Packard's OpenVMS operating system, and also by the older RSX-11.

Gfarm file system - Gfarm file system is an Open Source distributed file system, generally used for large scale cluster computing.

GMail Drive - GMail Drive is a free third-party Windows Shell namespace extension for Google's Gmail.

IBRIX Fusion - The IBRIX Fusion Software Suite comprises a scalable parallel file system, integrated logical volume manager, availability features, and a management interface.

InterMezzo (file system) - InterMezzo is an obsolete distributed file system written for Linux, distributed under the GPL. The kernel component is not included in the current 2.6 kernel.

Nasan - Nasan is a shared disk file system created by DataPlow, that features the ability to give shared, block-level access to a disk volume from multiple client computers without causing file system c...

NetWare Core Protocol - The NetWare Core Protocol is a network protocol used in some products from Novell, Inc. It is usually associated with the NetWare operating system, but parts of it have been implemented on other...

Network File System (protocol) - Network File System is a network file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1984, allowing a user on a client computer to access files over a network in a manner similar t...

OpenAFS - OpenAFS is an open source implementation of the Andrew distributed file system.

Remote File System - The Remote File System was a distributed file system developed by AT&T in the 1980s.

Self-certifying File System - In computing, Self-certifying File System is a global and decentralized, distributed file system for Unix-like operating systems, while also providing transparent encryption of communications as...

Server Message Block - In computer networking, Server Message Block operates as an application-layer network protocol mainly used to provide shared access to files, printers, serial ports, and miscellaneous communicat...

Shared resource - In computing, a shared resource or network share is a device or piece of information on a computer that can be remotely accessed from another computer, typically via a local area network o...

SSHFS - SSHFS is a file system client that may be used on operating systems for which an implementation of FUSE is available.

TOPS (file server) - TOPS is a peer-to-peer LAN-based file sharing system best known in its Macintosh implementation, but also available for Windows and able to interoperate with Unix's NFS. Originally written by Ce...

V9fs - Plan 9 from User Space is a port of many Plan 9 from Bell Labs libraries and applications to Unix-like operating systems.

WAN optimization - WAN optimization products seek to accelerate a broad range of applications accessed by distributed enterprise users via eliminating redundant transmissions, staging data in local caches, compres...

WebNFS - WebNFS is an extension to the NFS file system for allowing clients to access a file system over the internet using a simplified, firewall-friendly protocol.