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, ...

Windows servers connected through Azure Arc can now install the Azure File Sync agent using a new extension called Azure File Sync Agent for Windows. The new extension is published by Microsoft and ...

Enterprise users can choose from several cloud storage services available with the Azure cloud. These storage solutions for object, block, and file storage provide high availability and ...

In its effort to make its cloud service more appealing as an alternative or companion to on-premises-based storage, Microsoft has launched several new enhancements to its Microsoft Azure cloud 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 has announced some new security features for Azure Files entering general availability. These include Azure AD DS authentication, permission modifications through File Explorer, and more.

File storage is the fastest-growing data type, and cloud file storage is expanding to keep up. AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud all have multiple file storage managed services. Several of these ...

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 ...