• Customers can access the cloud service with standard protocols such as Server Message Block or Network File System, and Microsoft has been active in adding to its benefits list ever since adding support for the NFS v4.1 protocol back in December.
• The service now offers a 99.99% uptime SLA, snapshot support for NFS file shares and nconnect, a function that enables improvement of multi-core client's throughput and IOPS four-fold without changes to the app itself.