Is it possible yet, to mount an Azure page blob as an NTFS volume with the most recent Azure offerings? This was promised a while back and seems to be available via 3rd parties such as Gladinet. Ideal would be a shared NTFS volume offering from Azure from Microsoft. I mostly want to robocopy archive files offsite to Azure blobs, but would also like to do some file sharing across servers and desktops not part of Azure. I am looking for the fastest means to implement two way copy of data files between our servers and Azure storage.

Thanks for your input

hi

yes, it is possible, but I didn't test it.

please see links:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mvpawardprogram/archive/2012/04/02/configure-remote-blob-storage-rbs-with-the-filestream-provider-sharepoint-2010.aspx

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14649140/azure-as-mounted-drives-on-local-computers

Regards,

-Billgiee

I already know about Gladinet and may go that route but MSFT certainly implied in the past they would offer Azure blobs as mountable disk storage. Nothing else mentioned in either link offered this functionality besides Gladinet. Thanks, Dave

As far as I know from my past experiences, there is no option given by Azure to mount blobs as disk in local machine. They have it on Azure VMs as 'Attach Disk' feature, but it's not yet rolled out as a tool for on -premises.

the only thing that I see is Azure Cloud Drive. I am not sure if that serves your purpose.

http://shayyannay.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/windows-azure-cloud-drive-best-practices/

Sure it would. "If" it didn't have to be from inside Azure only...