The meDrive is a way to put an unused USB hard drive to good use by providing file server capabilities.

A few months ago, I detailed an excellent “file server in the Cloud” application called Egnyte. In a nutshell, Egnyte is a secure Software as a Service that takes the place of your file server ...

Egnyte’s ELC acts as a local file server within the company’s network, allowing users to access files either locally or in the company cloud. It automatically synchronizes local storage drives ...

Budget-conscious businesses looking to move into a cloud-based data management solution have a new option with Cachengo, which recently announced their local file server appliance, called Director.

Local file server, if that's all you need in-house, might be done just as well with a BuffaloNAS or other similar device. Easier to manage than a Windows install, just can't do as much.

Annyong is a Ruby executable that runs cross-platform and can quickly turn any directory on your computer into a local fileserver. There are a lot of directory- and file-listing file scripts out ...

Disable and Strip Short File Names DOS 8.3 short file names still exist in Windows Server for backward compatibility and are disabled in Windows Server 2012 on newly formatted volumes, but they may ...

I'm hearing rumblings about some of our APAC users taking minutes at a time to load excel files over the network from the local file server. This seemed to start about 3 weeks ago, the ...