Cloud file storage solution accelerates moving workloads to Google Cloud and eliminates the need to back up and maintain Windows File Servers, saving money and time BOSTON, June 2, 2021 ...

It’s time to take advantage of new storage and file networking features in the latest Windows Server 2022 releases.

We run the rule over file, block and object storage from the big three public cloud providers: AWS, Azure and GCP. We look at what’s on offer and the use cases they are aimed at.

If you want more than the basic file storage offered by GCP, NetApp Cloud Volumes are also available. This is NFS and SMB-connected for Linux and Windows application workloads.

For cloud storage to be useful for unstructured data storage, it needs to provide equivalent flexibility, performance and productivity as enterprise storage systems.

Although File Explorer makes it relatively easy to locate files located on your PC, you can also index your Windows file servers, thereby making it possible to search for individual files by content.