Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Gautam Gopinadhan

Andrea D'Amato

Richard Paul Testardi

Mohit Kumar Garg

Devidas Joshi

Ernie Pistor

Sebastien Charles

Stephen Wade Wolfe

John Renaud

Andrew T Mason

Krishnakumar Ravi

Piyush Kasliwal

Vaishnavi Ashok Bhorkar

Chinmay Nalin Joshi

Transportable storage devices are communicatively coupled behind one or more dedicated 'edge' data servers to take advantage of the benefits of the data servers and transportable storage devices while limiting their disadvantages. Each edge data server ingests data from one or more client devices and copies the data to one or more of the transportable storage devices for eventual transport to a cloud data center for upload to a cloud storage system. Multiple versions of a segment of data (e.g., of a file or a blob) are maintained at various points in the disclosed system and the disclosed technology ensures that the most recent version is the version ultimately stored on the cloud storage system.

Synchronizing online and offline transfer of data to cloud storage system

Examples are disclosed that relate to processing files between a local network and a cloud computing service. One example provides a computing device configured to be located between a local network and a cloud computing service, comprising a logic machine and a storage machine comprising instructions executable to receive, from a device within the local network, a file at a local share of the computing device, and in response to receiving the file, generate a file event indicating receipt of the file at the local share and provide the file event to a virtual machine executing on the computing device. The instructions are further executable to, based upon a property of the file, provide the file to a program operating within a container in the virtual machine to process the file, and send a result of executing the program on the file to the cloud computing service.

Processing files via edge computing device

Transportable storage devices are communicatively coupled behind one or more dedicated 'edge' data servers to take advantage of the benefits of the data servers and transportable storage devices while limiting their disadvantages. Each edge data server ingests data from one or more client devices and copies the data to one or more of the transportable storage devices for eventual transport to a cloud data center for upload to a cloud storage system. Object identifiers of objects stored on the transportable storage devices are maintained in a namespace of the data servers after decoupling of the transportable storage devices from the data servers so that the object identifiers remain visible to client devices.

Namespace data object name persistence after decoupling of transportable storage device from data server

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