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, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOUNT LAUREL, NJ--(Marketwired - Mar 8, 2016) - Talon, a provider of Microsoft based Intelligent file caching solutions for distributed enterprises, today announced that Robert Bird Group, a global ...

The Azure Service Health dashboard, used to check the status of Azure services, has reached the "general availability" stage, Microsoft announced this week. The dashboard had been at the preview stage ...

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 ...