Storage

Keep current on what’s happening in Azure, including what’s now in preview, generally available, news & updates, and more.

Ransomware attacks are no longer restricted to only deletion of data but are starting to look at attacking backups as well. Taking a backup is only the first step in your protection, it becomes important to safe guard those backups too.

It has been an exciting last few months since we announced the public preview of Azure Files share snapshot as we see our customers experiencing out-of-the-box snapshot capabilities for their Azure file shares.

Today we are excited to announce the public preview of soft delete for Azure Storage Blobs! The feature is available in all regions, both public and private.

To help our customers with their adoption of Azure services for big data and data warehousing workloads we have identified some common adoption patterns which are reference architectures for…

Last September, at SNIA’s Storage Developer’s Conference, I presented a prototype of the Project Denali SSD.

Today I’m speaking at the Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S. Summit 2018 in San Jose where we are announcing a next generation specification for solid state device (SSD) storage, Project Denali.

We see strong customer interest in the blockchain solutions that are available on the Azure Marketplace. Today, we are excited to announce significant enhancements to our Ethereum on Azure offering.

Catch up on what happened last week in Azure, including what’s now in preview, generally available, and other news & updates.

Announcing general availability of large disk support and backup and restore performance improvements.

Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of backup for Azure file shares. Azure Files is a cloud-first file share solution with support for industry standard SMB protocol.

Last week in Azure, the Azure SDK for GA became generally available, Microsoft Build registration opened, we announced Microsoft Startups with up to $120,000 in free Azure credits, and more.