Microsoft has made several updates to its Azure cloud services in recent days. These include general availability for the Azure Security Center for IoT, building of new datacenters, and the launching ...

Microsoft introduced a new storage option for its Azure cloud computing platform in preview today: the Azure Archive Blob Storage. This will give developers a cheaper alternative for the long-term ...

Earlier this month, Microsoft dropped prices by up to 50 percent for its Archive Storage offerings, aiming to provide the most cost-effective storage access. Then, last week, a new data redundancy ...

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When it comes to building applications on the public cloud, you’re spoiled for storage. You’ve got SQL, NoSQL, graph databases, document databases, and even good old-fashioned file systems. Choosing ...

Each cloud vendor offers an object storage service, and they include Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3), Azure’s Blob Store, and Google’s Cloud Storage. Think of object storage systems like a file ...