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, ...

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 has signalled Windows Server 2019 will offer hybrid storage features that will encourage users to put more data into its Azure public cloud and less onto on-premises storage arrays. News of ...

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.

File servers are at the core of almost all IT infrastructures. File sharing is essential to collaboration and is a vital component of growing volumes of unstructured information. File storage is a key ...

Microsoft is accepting testers into a preview program for its Azure Data Box data-transfer appliance. Azure Data Box weighs 45 pounds and is ruggedized, tamper resistant and manageable, according to ...

Microsoft has released a new preview of the Windows Admin Center 2012, its graphical tool for managing server clusters. The new preview includes fixes for Azure login reliability issues, the Extension ...