Azure NetApp Files Alternatives (January 2026)

Try Azure File Storage for managed file shares that use standard SMB 3.0 protocol. Share data with on-premises and cloud servers, integrate with apps, and more.

Cloud Volumes ONTAP enables you to optimize your cloud storage costs and performance while enhancing data protection, security, and compliance.

Turn a world of disruption into opportunity with intelligent data infrastructure from NetApp. Realize seamless flexibility—any data, any workload, any environment—with the only enterprise-grade storage service embedded in the world’s biggest clouds.

Unified storage solutions from NetApp deliver reliable data storage strategies that brings file and block storage into a single, scalable data management platform. Truly unified for any data type, workload, or application.

Accelerate and consolidate all your workloads with hyper-efficient, high- performance unified storage that supports block, file, object, and AI data infrastructure.

Store data of any size, shape, and speed with Azure Data Lake. Power your big data analytics, develop massively parallel programs, and scale with future growth.

Merge new levels of simplicity and flexibility with NetApp® ONTAP® unified storage operating system. Eliminate data silos, power your data and simplify your hybrid multicloud. Test-drive ONTAP Unified Storage OS today.

Deliver microsecond-response to your most demanding enterprise apps—like databases and data analytics—with EF-Series Flash Storage Arrays.

Get started today with Azure Premium Storage for low latency and high throughput storage suitable for I/O intensive applications.