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.

On Azure, things are different. Instead of having to manage data at an operating-system level, Azure’s object file system leaves everything up to your code.

Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer is a free tool that helps you conveniently manage your Azure cloud storage resources from your desktop.

Much of what developers do with storage is focused on working with unstructured binary data. Azure’s blob storage is one way of handling this without the overhead of a file system.

Zone redundant storage is now generally available for Azure Files premium tier, in additional to LRS. Currently being offered in the West Europe region, coverage will soon be expanded.

A few months after the preview of large file shares in Azure Files, the feature is now generally available. A bunch of new capabilities have been added to it during this time period.

In reality, the world of cloud storage has many facets to consider. Each of the three major public IaaS cloud vendors – Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform – have a ...

Microsoft recently announced the preview of Azure Storage Mover, a fully-managed, hybrid migration service.

Microsoft keeps added new features to it Azure Cloud service. The latest addition is "instant" data recovery and protection capabilities as part of an expanded set of new storage management features.

However, for file storage, there are bigger difference in the offerings from AWS, Azure and Google with AWS leading in offering the most options.