General availability: Azure Files supports storage capacity reservations for premium, hot, and cool tiers https://ift.tt/3h0Dl4U Storage capacity reservations for Azure Files enable you to significantly reduce the total cost of ownership of storage by pre-committing to storage utilization. To achieve the lowest costs in Azure, you should consider reserving capacity for all production workloads. Azure […]

SMB Multichannel for Azure Files is generally available https://ift.tt/3gX63Uk Server Message Block (SMB) Multichannel enables SMB clients to establish multiple parallel connections to an Azure file share. This allows SMB clients to take full advantage of all available network bandwidth and makes them resilient to network failures, reducing total cost of ownership and enabling 2-3x […]

General availability: Azure Files now supports SMB 3.1.1 https://ift.tt/3kPbS7z Server Message Block (SMB) 3.1.1 is the most recent version of the SMB protocol, released with Windows 10, containing important security and performance updates. Azure Files SMB 3.1.1 ships with two additional encryption modes, AES-128-GCM and AES-256-GCM, in addition to AES-128-CCM which was already supported. In […]