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Published May 15, 2023 • 4 min read

Transforming containerized applications with Azure Container Storage—now in preview

By Aung Oo General Manager, Azure Storage

Today, we are excited to announce the preview of Azure Container Storage, the industry’s first platform-managed container native storage service in the public cloud, providing end to end storage management and orchestration for stateful applications to run efficiently at scale on Azure.

Announcements, Azure Disk Storage, Compute, Storage

Published July 18, 2022 • 3 min read

Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage in preview

By Aung Oo General Manager, Azure Storage

We are excited to announce the preview of Premium SSD v2, the next generation of Azure Premium SSD Disk Storage. This new disk offering provides the most advanced block storage solution designed for a broad range of input/output (IO)-intensive enterprise production workloads that require sub-millisecond disk latencies as well as high input/output operations per second (IOPS) and throughput—at a low cost.

Azure Disk Storage, Storage, Thought leadership

Published September 9, 2021 • 4 min read

Improve availability with zone-redundant storage for Azure Disk Storage

By Aung Oo General Manager, Azure Storage

As organizations continue to accelerate their cloud adoption, the need for reliable infrastructure is critical to ensure business continuity and avoid costly disruptions. Today, we are announcing the general availability of zone-redundant storage (ZRS) for Azure Disk Storage. ZRS enables you to further improve availability for your critical workloads by providing cloud-first synchronous replication of block storage across three zones in a region.

Announcements, Azure Disk Storage, Storage

Published July 13, 2021 • 3 min read

Deliver scalable, cost-effective Disk Storage for Azure VMware Solution

By Yuemin Lu Principal Program Manager, Azure Storage

Today, we are announcing the preview of disk pool enabling Azure Disk Storage as a persistent storage option for Azure VMware Solution. With this announcement, you can gain flexibility for your data needs with scalable and cost-effective cloud storage for VMware workloads running on Azure.

Announcements, Azure Disk Storage, Storage

Published March 9, 2021 • 4 min read

Scale your critical applications cost-effectively with Azure Disk Storage

By Yuemin Lu Principal Program Manager, Azure Storage

To address today’s challenges like ensuring business continuity and managing reduced cash flow, organizations are accelerating their migration to the cloud. With a wide range of workloads migrating to the cloud, it is important to meet the unique scale needs of these workloads while keeping costs under control.

Announcements, Azure Disk Storage, Azure Private Link, Networking, Storage

Published July 16, 2020 • 5 min read

Announcing the general availability of Azure shared disks and new Azure Disk Storage enhancements

By Tad Brockway Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Azure for Operators

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.

Azure Disk Storage, Best practices, Storage

Published June 18, 2020 • 3 min read

Achieve higher performance and cost savings on Azure with virtual machine bursting

By Alec Becker Program Manager, Azure Storage

Virtual machine bursting, which is enabled by default, offers you the ability to achieve higher throughput for a short duration on your virtual machine instance with no additional steps or cost.

Announcements, Azure Disk Storage, Storage

Published April 1, 2020 • 3 min read

General availability of new Azure disk sizes and bursting

By Yuemin Lu Principal Program Manager, Azure Storage

Today marks the general availability of new Azure disk sizes, including 4, 8, and 16 GiB on both Premium & Standard SSDs, as well as bursting support on Azure Premium SSD Disks.

Announcements, Azure Disk Storage, Azure Resource Manager, Management and Governance, Storage

Published February 13, 2020 • 3 min read

Announcing the preview of Azure Shared Disks for clustered applications

By Tad Brockway Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Azure for Operators

This Azure-only capability enables customers to run their most IO intensive workloads, without compromising on well-known deployment patterns for failover and high availability.

Azure Disk Storage, Storage

Published December 16, 2019 • 3 min read

Better performance with bursting enhancement on Azure Disks

By Yuemin Lu Principal Program Manager, Azure Storage

We are excited to introduce the preview of bursting support on Azure Premium SSD Disks, and new disk sizes 4/8/16 GiB on both Premium & Standard SSDs. Eligible Premium SSD disks can now burst up to 30x of the provisioned performance target, providing better handling for spiky workloads.

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Announcing the general availability of Azure shared disks and new Azure Disk Storage enhancements

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