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, ...

Microsoft this week announced a few milestones for its Azure Files cloud-based file share service. The use of Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS) with the Azure Files service has reached the ...

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 ...

New York, NY, March 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CTERA, a hybrid cloud data platform leader, today announced the availability of CTERA Edge-to-Cloud File Services in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, ...

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In July, Microsoft announced that shared disks in Azure Disk Storage had reached general availability. Following on from that, a few days later, the tech giant revealed NFS 3.0 support for Blob ...

The Azure File Sync service, which Microsoft first unveiled at last year's Ignite conference and is designed to enable centralized file shares, is now generally available. Organizations can use the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...