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 ...

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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Microsoft has made significant progress with Azure since its inception and this year has been no different with a focus on the IoT space and "Digital Twins" as well as a number of online and offline ...

Suppose you are a technology professional dealing with data-intensive workloads. In that case, storage performance is always on your mind. Even more so in the public cloud, where storage typically has ...

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 ...