Microsoft announced on Thursday that it now offers the Azure Ultra Disk solid-state drive (SSD) storage service commercially, or at the "general availability" stage, in a few Azure regions. The ...

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Microsoft has made significant progress with Azure since its inception and this year has been no different with a focus on the IoT space and "Digital Twins" as well as a number of online and offline ...

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A recent update to Azure Managed Disks offers improved storage throughput and IOPS, but testing shows Premium V2 still leads in consistency under heavy load. Suppose you are a technology professional ...

Microsoft is expanding the capabilities of its Azure Data Box data-transfer appliance. Azure Data Box, which competes with Amazon's Snowball, is meant to help users move data into Azure faster and ...

Microsoft Azure has many data storage options, so how do you choose what to use? This guide explains the options Choosing the right cloud storage option is never as straightforward as you think it ...

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Everything you need to know about how to select, deploy, optimize and more when it comes to managing your virtual machines in Microsoft Azure. In last month's column I covered the basic step-by-step ...

Disk access in Azure sucks. I need to gather useful data to show people that it sucks, because I don't think people will believe me until a customer is on the phone and pissed off. Is resource monitor ...