A small company might use a single file server, where a larger company would have many for different departments or locations. Egnyte lets you substitute a cloud service for the physical server box.

A few months ago, I detailed an excellent “file server in the Cloud” application called Egnyte. In a nutshell, Egnyte is a secure Software as a Service that takes the place of your file server ...

We look at NAS file storage options in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. All three offer native- and NetApp-based file storage with Azure adding single namespace cache services ...

With more interest in cloud-based file servers, Brien Posey details the integral process of migrating existing files to the cloud to get started.

Let's add this folder to Syncthing. In the dashboard, click on the Add Folder button. Enter a name for the folder, followed ...

Cloud file storage company Nasuni Corp. is stepping up its tight integration with Google Cloud today with a new migration service that it says will help companies to eliminate the headaches of ...

Even in this cloud-centric world, there remain good reasons to own and run a physical server out of your office (or even home). Which server? That depends entirely on what you'll be using it for.

We look at the three basic ways that storage accesses data – via file, block and object – as well as the ways in which the rise of the cloud and distributed systems have brought changes to them.