Microsoft this week announced that its Azure File Sync service, used for enabling centralized file shares, has reached "general availability" status. The Azure File Sync synchronization service, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft Azure customers now gain access to Qumulo file data services to take advantage of the scalability, reliability, and agility of Azure to drive application development and shape business ...

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, ...

Despite the many and rapid changes in storage in recent years, such as the advent of flash and the move to cloud storage, there are still some fundamentals in place. Among these are the basics of how ...

In Part 1 of this series, I introduced Just Another Big Business (JABB) Systems International, a fictitious company, and their journey toward a hybrid cloud using Microsoft Azure. JABB has now divided ...