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

What can you do with Azure Files? Your email has been sent Microsoft has long put forward the view that the future of the cloud is hybrid, extending on-premises systems into its hyperscale Microsoft ...

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 ...

Microsoft is making it a little easier for businesses to ditch their file servers and network-attached storage (NAS) equipment with its new Azure File Sync product. The cloud-based file-replication ...

We are trying out Azure File Sync with Cloud Tiering, and all is going well except for one thing: When we delete a local file, and click on the "shadow" image to re-download it from the Azure cloud, ...

Microsoft had a lot to say about Windows Server 2022 in its 1.5-hour Windows Server Summit online event, held on Sept. 16. Many of Windows Server 2022's features are associated with security ...

With hybrid becoming the norm, cloud expert Paul Schnackenburg looks at the different flavors of hybrid Azure and how they compare, in which scenarios you'd use each one and links to learn more.

Paul Schnackenburg looks at the current capabilities of the public preview of Azure Arc -- extending Azure Resource Manager capabilities to Linux and Windows servers, as well as Kubernetes clusters on ...