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 ...

Initially introduced at Ignite last year, the new bursting capability for Premium SSD Managed Disks was detailed in December. Along with that, specifications for the new Standard SSD Managed Disks ...

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Last week, Microsoft announced Azure Spot Virtual Machines in preview. These were noted to work as a replacement for low-priority Virtual Machines on scale sets. Later in the same week, the tech giant ...

Microsoft introduces a file share-centric model for Azure Files, removing storage account complexity and offering more ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...