Case Study: Talon achieves accelerated global collaboration and reduced IT complexity with Microsoft Azure File Storage

Spurring Global Business with Azure File Storage

Talon, a U.S.-based provider of application performance and storage caching solutions for architecture, engineering, and manufacturing firms, faced growing pains as teams increasingly needed to share terabyte‑scale design files across distributed branch offices. Centralized file systems caused slow access and version conflicts, while maintaining on‑premises servers at each site created IT complexity and high costs that threatened Talon’s rapid growth and customers’ collaboration needs.

Talon migrated its FAST™ file‑sharing platform to Microsoft Azure File Storage (with Azure VMs and hybrid on‑prem connections), enabling a single, geo‑redundant file set accessed via SMB with AD‑managed ACLs. The move delivered faster local performance with consistent, up‑to‑date files, simpler deployment and maintenance, elastic scaling, and estimated infrastructure cost reductions of roughly 60–70% per branch—helping Talon expand into new markets and accelerate customer collaboration worldwide.

Talon

Jaap van Duijvenbode

Product Director