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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft introduces a file share-centric model for Azure Files, removing storage account complexity and offering more ...

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 ...

When configuring your network-attached storage (NAS) for sending and receiving files from clients, several protocols are available. The two most common are Server Message Block (SMB) and Network File ...