In April, Microsoft released new Azure disk sizes and burst support for Premium SSD Disks to all regions in the Azure Public Cloud. In the following month, at its virtual Build event, the tech giant ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

ServiceNow detailed its use of Microsoft’s virtualized, high-performance block storage for AI processing. The enterprise tech giant leveraged Microsoft Azure Ultra Disk Storage, which is touted by the ...

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 ...