Tag: Microsoft AD

Organizations are increasingly adopting cloud-based identity solutions to reduce infrastructure overhead and improve their security posture. For customers running file workloads on AWS, both Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and Amazon FSx for Windows File Server require joining a Microsoft Active Directory domain to serve SMB file shares and support Windows-based authentication. When customers have […]

Enterprise users are looking for a scalable and resilient network-attached storage (NAS) solution with high throughput performance on AWS to support distributed systems running Windows and Linux workloads. Moreover, users like to have flexible deployment models so that storage over the network can be consolidated and managed by the infrastructure account for cost optimization and […]

Managing file servers and Network Attached Storage (NAS) file systems, serving file shares and home directories, can result in significant administrative overhead and complexity. The file systems require patching and maintenance on a scheduled basis. When file systems are hosted on physical infrastructure, it can become even more time consuming and costly when scaling out […]