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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...