As you know you can use Azure Storage account to host file shares on Azure. Also you are aware that you can backup your Azure File share to an Azure Recovery Vault. While the file share backup has been available for configuration from the Azure Recovery Vault settings for a while, you can now configure […]
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As you know Azure Storage account is the Azure service allowing you storing data on blobs, files, queues or tables, providing a unique namespace to access the content from anywhere (according to your security and permissions settings) using HTTP protocol (in fact HTTPS). Well, Azure Storage account now support NFS (Network File System) version 3
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Disclaimer you need to evaluate if you need or not to enable this new feature, anonymous read access on Azure Blob Storage, as any client will be able to read the data stored on the corresponding Blob Storage. As you know, access to data stored on Azure Blob Storage is managed either by implementing Azure
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By now, you should already know Azure Backup, the Azure solution to protect your workloads (both on-premises and online) by backing them up, and Azure File Share, the Azure solution to provide file-share like services to replace your on-premises files servers. Well, now Azure Backup is providing an additional security layer by protection you against
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The point in time restore is now available in preview for Azure Storage Blob, helping increasing the protection against accidental deletion or block corruption. There is few limitations with the preview: Available in the following regions only Canada Central Canada East France Central Bloc uploaded with Put Block or Put Block from URL but not
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By now you know Azure Storage Account is used to store data in Azure, either as blob, file or table. Azure Storage Blob is usually used to store unstructured object in Azure Storage. This is usually used by an application performing continuous data updates. In this context, there has been a need for versioning, being
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Good news for those working with Azure Storage Account, support for NFS (Network File System) v3 and v4 have been added to Azure Storage Account. That said, there is currently a requirement to first register your subscription as this is currently in preview; registration form is available at https://aka.ms/AzureNFSPreview For your information: NFS v3 is
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Compliance, audit and tracking is one of the major requirement and feature on Azure services. With that in mind a new audit capability is being currently in preview for Azure Blog Storage: Change Feed. With Change Feed support for Azure Blog Storage you will get a continuous read-only logging on all actions executed on a
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As you may already know, you can use your Azure Storage Account as a ‘cloud’ file share. That said, there has been few limitations, especially in term of storage capability for file share (up to 5 Tb capacity for example with a standard/general purpose storage account; premium storage account already supports larger capacity). Well, good
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A new version of AzCopy (v10) currently in preview allows you to copy data from your Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket to Azure Storage. If you want to evaluate this capability and performance, get the AzCopy v10 preview client: Windows https://aka.ms/downloadazcopy-v10-windows MacOS https://aka.ms/downloadazcopy-v10-mac Linux https://aka.ms/downloadazcopy-v10-linux Then you can run the below commands to copy
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