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Paul Schnackenburg examines the current storage options for Azure IaaS VMs, as well as the new offering, Ultra SSD, released in preview at Ignite 2018. Storage in public clouds has always been an ...

Migrating to Azure Premium SSD v2 offers significant performance and cost benefits. However, manual migration can introduce downtime and added complexity due to Azure’s current limitations on v2 disk ...

The offering gives customers an option to build Silk Data Pods (SDPs) using Microsoft Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage. Based on Silk's stable architecture, the new offering enhances the resiliency ...

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 ...

Microsoft Azure is getting a number of new storage options today that mostly focus on use cases where disk performance matters. The first of these is Azure Ultra SSD Managed Disks, which are now in ...

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 ...

Flash storage is increasingly important to the enterprise market, and analysts expect solid-state drives (SSDs) to largely replace spinning disks for enterprise systems, endpoints and consumer devices ...

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Currently, AKS node pools don't provide any mechanism to specify the storage account type for OS disks. The OS disk type is automatically ...