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 ...

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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 ...

While doing some research on public cloud-based backup to blob storage solutions, I decided to tinker with the possibility of using Azure not just as my backup target but as a replacement for my main ...

Last week, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Premium Storage, the choice of storage for demanding workloads. A week before that, at the AWS Summit, Amazon has launched a new ...