Cloud storage to use inside your cloud service: Azure Files represents another step towards blending the concepts of Platform and Infrastructure as a Service for a very pragmatic approach to cloud.

An Azure file share is just like a file share you're used to setting up on-prem and can be accessed just like an SMB share that's hosted on a local Windows machine. A lot of the time, organizations ...

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 ...

For identity, Active Directory (AD) works seamlessly with Azure Active Directory (AAD). For email and collaboration, Exchange and SharePoint Server talks to Exchange/SharePoint Online in Office 365.

Microsoft had a lot to say about Windows Server 2022 in its 1.5-hour Windows Server Summit online event.

So [SMB over QUIC] was the way to do that.” Migration to Azure doesn’t stop users wanting to share files; if anything it increases the global reach of those file shares beyond the firewall.

Azure Service Fabric is Microsoft's microservices and orchestration platform. Microsoft also kicked off a public preview for Azure File Sync last week.

The big three offer cloud file storage that can ease hybrid cloud operations, with consistency between cloud and on-premise as well as greater enterprise application compatibility.