Storage

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.

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.

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.

Today we are excited to share the preview for account failover for customers with geo-redundant storage (GRS) enabled storage accounts.

We are excited to reveal a set of new features for backing up Microsoft Azure file shares natively using Azure Backup. All backup-related features have also been released to support file shares connected to Azure File Sync.

The definitive guide to scaling 10k VMs on Azure; New Azure Migrate Site Recovery enhancements for cloud migration; General availability of Azure Data Box Disk; and so much more.

This blog post primarily discusses how Microsoft Azure Firewall and Azure Backup can be leveraged to provide comprehensive protection to your data. The former protects your network, while the latter backs up your data to the cloud.

Since our preview announcement, hundreds of customers have been moving recurring workloads, media captures from automobiles, incremental transfers for ongoing backups, and archives from remote/office branch offices (ROBOs) to Microsoft Azure.

We are excited to share the auto-protection capability for SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines (VM). This is a key addition to the public preview of Azure Backup for SQL Server on Azure VM, announced earlier this year.

V3 is the latest upgrade for Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS). Azure Backup Server can now be installed on Windows Server 2019 with SQL 2017 as its database. MABS V3 brings key enhancements in the areas of storage and security.

Today we are excited to announce the general availability of static websites on Azure Storage, which is now available in all public cloud regions.