Microsoft on Tuesday announced the general availability of Azure Data Box Edge and Azure Data Box Gateway. Azure Data Box Edge is a "1U rack-mountable appliance" made by Microsoft that can be used to ...

Azure Data Box Heavy is now generally available, after entering the preview stage last year. Regional availability of other Data Box solutions, such as Data Box Disk, have been expanded as well. In ...

This is not a rhetorical question: How do you move 2 petabytes of data to a cloud that can analyze it? It’s not practical to move it over the internet — even with an obscenely fast 10 Gbps connection, ...

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Last week Microsoft announced that GA versions of Azure Data Box Edge and Azure Data Box Gateway are now available through the Microsoft Azure Portal. Azure Data Box Edge, the "1U rack-mountable ...

Microsoft Corp. is teaming up with Dell Technologies Inc.’s Dell EMC subsidiary to deliver cloud services to the “tactical edge,” by which they mean remote locations where network connectivity leaves ...

Microsoft has announced several new storage services, many of which are backed by solid state disks, while the first of two new Azure VM offerings with GPU optimization has entered public preview.

At its Ignite 2018 conference, Microsoft announced Data Box hardware appliances that will allow cloud ingestion to tens or hundreds of TB, the availability of its Avere vFXT cloud NAS and cloud ...

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The company best known for its Windows operating systems and related client and server software but also one of the big five cloud players on Earth is getting into the edge computing business with a ...