Storage

Achieve more with Microsoft Game Stack; Azure Databricks – VNet injection, DevOps Version Control and Delta availability; Hardware innovation for data growth challenges at cloud-scale; and much more.

How do you back up your SQL Servers today? You could be using backup software that require you to manage backup servers, agents, and storage, or you could be writing elaborate custom scripts which need you to manage the backups on each server individually.

The world of computing goes deep and wide on working on issues related to our environment, economy, energy, and public health systems.

We are excited to share the public preview of AzCopy in Azure Storage Explorer. AzCopy is a popular command line utility that provides performant data transfer into and out of a storage account.

Azure Data Box offline family lets you transfer hundreds of terabytes of data to Microsoft Azure in a quick, inexpensive, and reliable manner.

Scaling out read workloads in Azure Database for MySQL; Secure server access with VNet service endpoints for Azure Database for MariaDB; Announcing new capabilities in Azure Firewall; and much more.

Today we are excited to announce the public preview of Azure Premium Blob Storage. Premium Block Blob is a new performance tier in Azure Blob Storage, complimenting the existing Hot, Cool, and Archive tiers.

Today, we are delighted to share the release of Azure Backup Instant Restore capability for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). Instant Restore helps Azure Backup customers quickly recover VMs from the snapshots stored along with the disks.

On February 7, 2019 we announced the general availability of Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2.

Analytics in Azure is up to 14x faster and costs 94% less than other cloud providers; Announcing updates to 3 great Azure Data services; Azure Cost Management now GA for EA customers; and more.

It’s true. With the volume and complexity of data rapidly increasing, performance and security are critical requirements for analytics. But not all analytics services are built equal. And not all cloud storage is built for analytics.

As Julia White mentioned in her blog today, we’re pleased to announce the general availability of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and Azure Data Explorer. We also announced the preview of Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flow.