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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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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 ...

Uploading a Hyper-V virtual machine to Microsoft Azure is surprisingly easy to do, but there is a lot of prep work that must be done in order to get the virtual machine ready to upload. Much of this ...

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 ...