Page 1 of 9 NFS Vendors Conference October 25, 2000 PC Solutions to Network File Systems

Page 2 of 9 NFS Vendors Conference October 25, 2000 The Industry PC Architectures continue to improve in performance and reliability Lower cost for hardware implementation Access required from off site locations PC’s are moving into the back office

Page 3 of 9 NFS Vendors Conference October 25, 2000 What They Want Single solution to file access Ability to access information from anywhere Simple and easy to use

Page 4 of 9 NFS Vendors Conference October 25, 2000 The Industry TCP/IP defacto standard for networking protocol NFS becoming Industry Standard Protocol for file sharing Transparent Access allowing users the ability to use existing knowledge

Page 5 of 9 NFS Vendors Conference October 25, 2000 The Solution NFS V4 Network Latency and firewall traversal –Recovery controls for Lockd Security –Kerberos 5 Simplifies the PC users access to this information using their existing knowledge –Crash recovery and file sharing capabilities for PC NFS Clients –Volatile File Handles –Named Attributes

Page 6 of 9 NFS Vendors Conference October 25, 2000 What Else Multiple roots Mount point crossing

Page 7 of 9 NFS Vendors Conference October 25, 2000 The Other Choices SMB –SAMBA and CIFS Non standard add-on protocol Resource and Network intensive UNIX implementation is difficult to administer and unstable

Page 8 of 9 NFS Vendors Conference October 25, 2000 The Future Continued growth in the NFS market is expected as more industries standardize on NFS for file sharing and document management With the current capabilities of PC architectures the need for PC NFS Clients and Servers will increase More platform independent software requirements Internet growth extends accessibility

Page 9 of 9 NFS Vendors Conference October 25, 2000 In Conclusion Larger install base covering wide areas requires –Security –Firewall transversal –Network Latency Support Simplified use in multi vendor and multi OS environments Crash Recovery and “Sharing” allows for heterogeneous environment PC NFS Client and Server Market will extend