Microsoft introduced a nifty new feature to its Azure public cloud this week called Managed Disks. The idea is that developers will not have to worry about provisioning storage when spinning up ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Microsoft’s Azure platform is a significant player in the cloud storage market. According to Microsoft figures, by the start of 2024, Azure storage clocked up more than 100 exabytes of data reads and ...

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 ...