Microsoft this week announced that its Azure File Sync service, used for enabling centralized file shares, has reached 'general availability' status.

The Azure File Sync service, which Microsoft first unveiled at last year's Ignite conference and is designed to enable centralized file shares, is now generally available.

Windows Server customers can now centralize their file share management and keep spare copies on Microsoft's cloud.

Azure File Sync will replicate data from Windows Server to Azure and also to other servers around an organisation's fleet.

Azure File Sync effectively enables users to connect to folders on Windows Server, including on-premise servers, where the storage is actually on Azure. These folders can then be further shared to ...

Azure Service Fabric is Microsoft's microservices and orchestration platform. Microsoft also kicked off a public preview for Azure File Sync last week.