Azure Files Reviews & Product Details

Microsoft Aure storage provide an alternate solution of storing data remotely with high security instead of having our own physical storage.

Ease to use and implement as we just have to buy subscription according to our need,rest is handled by service provider.

Automated Backup and recovery of data with customer support.

Another benefit of Azure Storage, data is visible to it's corresponding user with security.

Can be integrated with other services according to business need and subscription. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For me, Microsoft Azure Storage fullfill all the requirement that need to be completed for storage purpose like security,data availability,scalaility etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use and implement.

Data migration is very smooth.

A greate cloud storage solution provided by microsoft ,which can be scaled to accomodate large amount of data as per requirement.

Data is stored securely with it's high availability to its correspoding user.

User do not need to bothered about backup and restore of data as it is handled by service provider itself.

High customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Azure Storage offer limited information storage capability.

Pricing structure can be improved so that it can be used most. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Azure files can be deployed as cloud, SaaS, and web-based which reduces the effort of implementation of cloud storage in the IT infrastructure. Azure files can be accessed from Windows, Linux, and macOS clients using SMB protocol. Easy to deploy in the cloud. Files can be created and modified in the cloud itself. The file can be accessed remotely and securely. Windows servers can easily integrated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Free trial and free version are not available. Customer support resolution and response time need to be optimized and solutions need to be simplified. Azure files use only server message block (SMB) protocol which limits its application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple file transfer that works with Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. Another helpful feature of Azure files is it uses SMB protocol which allows us to map an Azure file directory into a network drive on our machine. It also includes drive mapping steps for various operating systems, so we don't need to look anywhere. The sync is high-speed and runs in the background. With a retention policy, we can be sure that data is backed up and that our data is secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For product based companies, it is not useful Because it has a storage restriction of 5TB per account, we need to create additional storage accounts to store more than 5 TB. If it is less than 5 TB, then it is very great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Azure Files seamlessly integrates with our existing Azure infra

2. Since it is scalable, it ensures we never run out of space

3. Supports both SMB and NFS.

4. Provides role based access control that helps us to control access to various users and follow the rule of least privileges. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Understanding the Pricing is complex.

2. Learning and understanding for new users who have no prior experience on Azure can be overwhelming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Azure files help set up SMB file shares for organisational file share requirements, majorly useful in your AVD deployments for having FSLogix file shares for storing user and office365 profiles. It's easy to set up and maintain and can be secured by enabling private endpoints on the storage account to prevent unauthorised access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The minimum file share size should be 100 GB, which may not be suitable for more minor share requirements, and the maximum file size capacity of a file is up to 1 TB if using a standard Azure file share and 4 TB for a premium Azure file share; hence organisations should be careful when choosing Azure files, and other best option is to go with Azure Netapp files which gives better performance and storage capacity pool options with higher iops in comparison with Azure files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is Exellent Option for small and Midsize companies who is looking for moving on cloud with their on-prem file services. it is very safe and flexible to deploy based on the requirements. I have recently moved our Company's on-prem data to Cloud successfully with improved performance. initially, we were looking for some third party storage Management solution where we will have backup, point in time snapshots and security. we found the solution but the cost ways high. it was costing the solutions somewhere around $40000/year which looks huge. we start exploring the features on azure files with azure file sync. it exact match the our requirment with less the 1/4 of the total third party solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

it doesn't provide global file locking facility. I have deployed the Azure FileSync Agent with Cloud Tiering enabled. when i open a file from AZ Sync Agent 1 and same file can be opened from AZ Sync Agent 2 and can be edited. whoever saves last will be overwrite first saved data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Azure files keeps you files in highly availability. Your data is replicated across multiple data centers and multiple times, so it is always available and protected against data loss, even in the event of a hardware failure. Also we can easily add more storage capacity as the needs grow. Azure Files also offers high performance so applications can access the stored data quickly and reliably. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Being a cloud service, and especially if you need a lot of storage space it could get very costly. It is also complex to manage, especially if you are not familiar with cloud computing. Consider also that when in cloud you need to mitigate any risks of security breaches. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Able to mount Files system with cloud and on premises server. Very useful for kubernetes cluster running on state set. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Creating and mounting steps are little tricky. More documentation will be very helpfull Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has user friendly interface, easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing is little bit higher than other cloud platform like AwS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.