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Microsoft announced on Thursday that it now offers the Azure Ultra Disk solid-state drive (SSD) storage service commercially, or at the "general availability" stage, in a few Azure regions. The ...

Initially previewed last month, the new bursting capability for Azure Premium SSD Disks has now been further detailed, with information on support for it on standard managed disks, and more. Last week ...

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A recent update to Azure Managed Disks offers improved storage throughput and IOPS, but testing shows Premium V2 still leads in consistency under heavy load. Suppose you are a technology professional ...

The latest release of Azure Storage Explorer bumps the service to version 1.10.0. With this update, the option to easily backup and restore VMs using disk support is being offered. Last month, ...

Microsoft has expanded its confidential computing offering and now allows Azure cloud computing service customers to create hardware isolated virtual machines (aka confidential VMs) with Ephemeral OS ...

Microsoft is expanding the capabilities of its Azure Data Box data-transfer appliance. Azure Data Box, which competes with Amazon's Snowball, is meant to help users move data into Azure faster and ...

Everything you need to know about how to select, deploy, optimize and more when it comes to managing your virtual machines in Microsoft Azure. In last month's column I covered the basic step-by-step ...