Senior Security Engineer at Softcell Technologies Limited
Real User
Top 5
Jun 1, 2026
Our primary use case for Azure Files is centralized file sharing, application data storage, and replacing traditional on-premises file servers with cloud-based SMB and NFS shares. From an infrastructure and security perspective, we use it for user home directories, shared departmental data, lift and shift application migrations, backup repositories, and secure file access across hybrid environments integrated with Active Directory and Azure identity controls.
IT Solution Specialist at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 10
Feb 11, 2026
We are moving on-premise project data migrated to Azure file shares. We currently have all offices, and we have just moved our on-premise user data to Azure. We used Azure Files to sync our on-prem data to Azure file shares. We use it for the on-prem caching servers. We have a small footprint of on-prem File Sync servers at each of the office locations. We use Azure File Sync for that. We have used Komprise integration to help us migrate old data from Azure file shares to cold storage for tiering purposes. Komprise is a third party tool that we utilized. I have not used application hosting features myself. I have read that you can lift-shift an application to Azure Files, and you may be able to do something like database hosting on it, but I have not yet used that feature.
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Our primary use case for Azure Files is centralized file sharing, application data storage, and replacing traditional on-premises file servers with cloud-based SMB and NFS shares. From an infrastructure and security perspective, we use it for user home directories, shared departmental data, lift and shift application migrations, backup repositories, and secure file access across hybrid environments integrated with Active Directory and Azure identity controls.
We are moving on-premise project data migrated to Azure file shares. We currently have all offices, and we have just moved our on-premise user data to Azure. We used Azure Files to sync our on-prem data to Azure file shares. We use it for the on-prem caching servers. We have a small footprint of on-prem File Sync servers at each of the office locations. We use Azure File Sync for that. We have used Komprise integration to help us migrate old data from Azure file shares to cold storage for tiering purposes. Komprise is a third party tool that we utilized. I have not used application hosting features myself. I have read that you can lift-shift an application to Azure Files, and you may be able to do something like database hosting on it, but I have not yet used that feature.