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This article refers to MSP360 Explorer for Windows Azure 2.4 and later.

Microsoft has recently announced a new feature to Azure Storage - a new blob type called Append Blob.  According to Microsoft, it is optimized for fast append operations and supports multiple clients writing to the same blob without any need for synchronization.

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This article refers to MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3, version 4.1 and later.

We are glad to announce that starting from this release, MSP360 Explorer supports Amazon Drive! Using our product, you can easily move your data across your local storage and cloud storage as well as manage files and folders in the cloud just the same way you do it on your local computer.

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Note: This post applies to MSP360 Explorer for OpenStack 1.5 and later

We are glad to announce that starting from this release MSP360 Explorer supports keystone authentication v3. OpenStack Keystone is a secure identity service that can be used for connecting MSP360 products with OpenStack-compatible cloud storage. Continue reading

We are glad to announce that starting from this release, MSP360 Explorer for Microsoft Azure supports Azure File storage! Using MSP360 Explorer, you can now easily create a new Azure File storage account, add new file shares and effectively manage your data on these file shares. Continue reading

This blog post explains how to use AWS Key Management Service with MSP360 Explorer.
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MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3 (PRO version) comes with compression and encryption support for Amazon Glacier. It means you can set up the compression and encryption options one the global level using the Tools | Options menu. Continue reading

As always we are trying to stay on top of the new functionality offered by Google Drive team to offer the most compelling Google Drive client on Windows platform.

With the newer release of MSP360 Explorer for Google Storage, we are adding an authentication to Google Drive with your Google service account (OAuth 2.0) which is the new recommended Google authentication and authorization scheme. OAuth 2.0 is an industry standard that Google has adopted across their products, offering many benefits.
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This article overviews how Amazon S3 lifecycle rules can be set for buckets with versioning. To set lifecycle rules we will use MSP360 Explorer.

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Especially for developers, Microsoft Azure gives an opportunity to work with a local emulator for Azure Storage – Microsoft Azure Storage Emulator which is available as a part of Microsoft Azure SDK (for more information see Difference Between the Storage Emulator and Azure Storage Services).
In our MSP360 Explorer for Azure, we support Microsoft Azure Storage Emulator. To enable it in, use «Development Storage» checkbox in your Azure account settings.
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Some OpenStack-based cloud storage service providers have multiple services that can deal with data, kept within the cloud storage. To transfer data between different services are used internal networks of data centers. In most cases, data transfers within one data center are off charge while interactions with the outside data are paid.
For managing internal data transferring, cloud storage providers allow attaching internal (private URLs) for users’ data. MSP360 Explorer PRO for OpenStack supports internal URLs and allows moving, copying, and modifying data inside of the OpenStack-based cloud storage. It makes it easier to move data within the internal network of cloud storage with no need to pay for ongoing and outgoing traffic.

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MSP360 constantly works on enhancement of our products. Today we are happy to introduce support for OpenStack regions in MSP360 Explorer for OpenStack – a file manager that allows creating, browsing, modifying and deleting files and containers on any OpenStack-compatible storage.
Now users of OpenStack-based cloud storage services can specify a region in which their data will be stored. It means that you can specify a region for any container within RackSpace and other OpenStack-based cloud storage services that have multiple regions.
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