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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

If you prefer local storage, don't worry: you can get back the traditional way of creating documents, in which they're not saved to the cloud until you choose. In Word for Windows, click File > More > ...

Cloudtenna's software scoops up your file server's metadata - not the files - and stores it in the cloud. Users can search for files from anywhere, on any device, and when they find the ones they ...

On average, the total cost of ownership for a NAS is less than half the cost for a traditional file server, and using NAS can be more than 90% cheaper than buying equivalent cloud subscriptions.

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.