Showing 21 – 27 of 27 posts found
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By Klaas Langhout Principal PM Manager, Azure Storage
Since Azure Files became generally available, we’ve consistently heard from our customers that they want to embrace the power and flexibility of the cloud without giving up the locality of their on-premises file server. Today, we are excited to announce the preview of a great new feature in Azure Files...
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By Rena Shah Program Manager, Azure Storage
We had announced the availability of Linux on-premises and cross-region mounting of Azure Files for the first OS distribution - Ubuntu 17.04, in April. Today, we are happy to share that more Linux distributions now include this functionality, which will allow on-premises and cross-region mounting of Azure Files.
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By Rena Shah Program Manager, Azure Storage
Azure Files offers fully managed file shares in the cloud through the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. This is the predominantly used file share protocol for on-premises Windows use cases.
Published • 1 min read
By Rena Shah Program Manager, Azure Storage
Azure File Storage is a service that offers shared File Storage for any OS that implements the supported SMB Protocol. Since GA we supported both Windows and Linux.
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Today we announce the Docker Volume Plugin for Azure File Storage open source on GitHub, allowing you to store persistent data in containers and migrate them between hosts easily with the Linux SMB capabilities of Azure File Storage.
Azure Files, Storage, Thought leadership
Published • 3 min read
By Mark Russinovich Chief Technology Officer and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure
We were excited to announce the general availability of Azure File Storage, Microsoft Azure’s fully managed file shares in the cloud at AzureCon 2015, and I’d like to provide an inside view on how we built the service.
Published • 6 min read
By Jason Tang Senior Program Manager, Azure Storage
We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure File Storage!