When you have a local network, you can have network storage — an SMB share on a file server, or a Network Attached Storage (NAS) box that everything on the network can access. Inside a cloud service, ...

The feature, part of Microsoft's Azure cloud service, makes it easy to create file shares in the public cloud. In its effort to make its cloud service more appealing as an alternative or companion to ...

Take advantage of Azure Files in your .Net applications to access managed, secure, SMB file shares in the Microsoft Azure cloud Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform provides interoperable cloud ...

Setting up a place to store files in the cloud isn't quite as easy as doing it on-prem. That's where Microsoft's Azure Files service comes in. The file share has been a ubiquitous presence in the IT ...

In June, Microsoft announced the general availability of a new premium tier for its Azure Files service. The new tier, available in 19 regions globally, offers a higher level of performance and ...

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File-based cloud storage is now a standard offering from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure. Although the cloud giants’ offerings are most often associated with object ...

Microsoft Azure has many data storage options, so how do you choose what to use? This guide explains the options Choosing the right cloud storage option is never as straightforward as you think it ...

New enhancements for Azure Disk Storage have been released, including higher performance and cost saving options. The new shared disks feature has reached general availability as well. In April, ...

Cloud storage is increasingly sophisticated and flexible. The initial appeal of storing data in the cloud was flexibility and cost, and to achieve that, the majority of cloud services based their ...