SMB Compression: Deflate your IO

Hi folks, Ned Pyle guest-posting today about SMB Compression, a long-awaited option coming to Windows, Windows Server, and Azure. As you know, the growth of cheap storage and plentiful network bandwidth over the past decade had an immediate effect: files got bigger and less efficient ;). SMB Compression tackles this by adding optional inline whitespace compression to file transfers, removing congestion and copy time from offenders like virtual machine disks, raw graphics, scientific data, and other large file formats.

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