Last week, Microsoft announced a reduction in Azure Archive Storage prices by up to 50 percent, in a bid to provide the most cost-effective storage access. Today, the tech giant has unveiled a new ...

One of the most fundamental benefits of cloud computing is the ability to create an off-premise storage capacity that is accessible to an entire enterprise at any time from anywhere. Whether your ...

In June, Microsoft announced the general availability of a new premium tier for its Azure Files service. The new tier, available in 19 regions globally, offers a higher level of performance and ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with ...

When it comes to building applications on the public cloud, you’re spoiled for storage. You’ve got SQL, NoSQL, graph databases, document databases, and even good old-fashioned file systems. Choosing ...

This is the third article in our Windows Azure guide series, aimed at helping you understand the intricacies of Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud platform. Subsequent to the Spring Update released in ...

Microsoft has released Azure Storage Discovery as a generally available service. It is intended to provide companies with a central overview of their storage landscape in Azure Blob Storage and Azure ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Traditional caching fails to stop "thundering ...

The cloud-storage pricing wars just keep going and going. The latest to trim prices is Microsoft, following similar back-to-back moves by Amazon and Google. On December 5, Microsoft announced its ...

When you have a local network, you can have network storage — an SMB share on a file server, or a Network Attached Storage (NAS) box that everything on the network can access. Inside a cloud service, ...