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One of the major announcements from this past AWS Storage Day 2021, September 2nd 2021, was Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is a fully managed storage service that enables businesses to run NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS cloud. ONTAP from NetApp  is an enterprise data management solution designed to provide…

Organizations looking to move some or all of their file systems to cloud storage have choices. The options from the two biggest public cloud service providers are Microsoft Azure Files, Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), or Amazon FSx. All these platforms offer cloud-based serverless storage, allowing you to avoid maintaining complex file systems. This article compares these options based on 4 key parameters –…

In this introductory article, Aidan Finn explains what Microsoft Azure is and isn’t, along with key features of the service.

Learn how you can improve file server performance in Azure without adding any additional hardware or virtual machines by using Windows BranchCache.

Aidan Finn explains how you can use WebJobs to execute tasks on Azure App Service.

ImageX is a command-line tool that can be used to capture, modify, and apply file-based disk images for deployment of systems in an enterprise by leveraging the Windows Imaging format (.wim files). Learn how you can leverage it for your imaging and deployment needs in this article by Jason Zandri.

Septemeber was full of Azure announcements from Ignite, Aidan breaks all the news down so that it is easier to digest.

October, the first month in Q4 of the calendar year and Q2 of the Microsoft financial year, is also in the middle of planning for the next semester of development of Microsoft Azure (codenamed Cobalt).

Aidan Finn explains how you can deploy virtual machines to meet the system requirements for Microsoft’s 99.95% SLA on Azure VMs.

In the final article of this article series on process performance, Jeff Hicks shows us how we can manage performance at scale with PowerShell.