One of my favorite Azure services is Azure Files. It’s so elegantly simple: It delivers SMB/NFS/CIFS file shares & storage… from the cloud.
- It provides access to files securely over SMB, NFS or CIFS to clients
- It can alternatively provide a file cache on-prem & sync files between on-prem file shares and the cloud (using an installable sync service)
- It can archive files that aren’t used often to the cloud in cheap, tiered storage & display stubs in the directory for files that aren’t on-prem and will be retrieved from the cloud
- It can provide antivirus, file backups, encryption & file level restores, all in the cloud.
Here’s an overview of how it works:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWLO7F52-s)
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