Storage

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.

Providing a rich GUI for Azure Data Lake Storage (ALDS) resources management has been a top customer for a long time, we are thrilled to announce the public preview for supporting Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) in the Azure Storage Explorer (ASE).

We previously announced the preview of Azure Backup reporting and gave customers the ability to generate their own reports and build customizations using Power BI.

Today we are announcing the general availability of Firewalls and Virtual Networks (VNets) for Azure Storage along with Virtual Network Service Endpoints.

We are excited to announce the Public Preview of Azure Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS).

Last week in Azure started 2018 with addressing a far-reaching security vulnerability at the CPU level, new developer tools for big data, tech content, and more.

Azure Backup stands firm on the promise of simplicity, security, and reliability by giving customers a smooth and dependable experience across scenarios.

Today we’re excited to announce the general availability of Archive Blob Storage.

We are happy to announce the technical reference implementation of an enterprise grade infrastructure to help accelerate the deployment of a BI and reporting solution to augment your data science and…