Boost your client performance with Azure Files SMB Multichannel
Tuesday, 17 November 2020
Lower your deployment cost, while improving client performance with Server Message Block (SMB) Multichannel on premium tier.
Storage, Backup & Recovery
Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – October 2020
Tuesday, 27 October 2020
Last month, we shared a lot of cost optimization tips and tricks. Continuing with that focus, October is all about helping you save money on Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS), database, or storage offerings. You'll also read about creating subscriptions via Azure Resource Manager deployment templates, be able to participate in a survey to streamline your experience when verifying your billed charges, and get a sneak peek at a few very early previews. Enjoy!
Migrate your Hadoop data lakes with WANDisco LiveData Platform for Azure
Tuesday, 27 October 2020
It’s no secret that organizations consider data as one of their most valuable assets and are investing to build their capability for data-driven decision making. While it is challenging to institute a flexible and cost-effective data estate on-premises, the cloud offers an extensive set of innovative and data-oriented solutions.
Azure Cost Management + Billing updates – September 2020
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
While 2020 may be keeping you on your toes, September should help make your life a little bit easier with the general availability of AWS support in Azure Cost Management + Billing, allowing you to manage all your Azure and AWS costs in a single place; the preview of cost allocation, streamlining your internal chargeback process; and many, many new cost optimization tips and tricks, including a new retail, PAYG pricing API, new Advisor recommendations, and specific guidance for organizations using Azure SQL or Azure Backup. You won't want to miss this update!
Azure NetApp Files cross region replication and new enhancements in preview
Wednesday, 16 September 2020
As businesses continue to adapt to the realities of the current environment, operational resilience has never been more important. As a result, a growing number of customers have accelerated a move to the cloud, using Microsoft Azure NetApp Files to power critical pieces of their IT infrastructure, like Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, SAP applications, and mission critical databases.
5 ways to optimize your backup costs with Azure Backup
Tuesday, 1 September 2020
Achieving cost efficiency in your cloud usage is more critical today than ever before. At Azure Backup, we are committed to helping you optimize your backup costs. Over the last few months, we have…
NFS 3.0 support for Azure Blob storage is now in preview
Monday, 27 July 2020
To enable customers to run NFS based applications at scale, we are announcing the preview of NFS 3.0 protocol support for Azure Blob storage.
Advancing resilience through chaos engineering and fault injection
Monday, 27 July 2020
This post is designed to get you thinking about how best to validate typical failure conditions, including examples of how we at Microsoft validate our own systems.
Announcing the general availability of Azure shared disks and new Azure Disk Storage enhancements
Thursday, 16 July 2020
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of—enabling you to migrate your existing on-premises Windows and Linux-based clustered environments to Azure. We’re also announcing important new disk enhancements to provide you with more availability, security, and flexibility on Azure.
Run high scale workloads on Blob storage with new 200 TB object sizes
Wednesday, 15 July 2020
Azure Blob storage is a massively scalable object storage solution that serves from small amounts to hundreds of petabytes of data per customer across a diverse set of data types including logging, documents, media, genomics, seismic processing, and much more.