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 ...

including Azure Standard SSD Managed Disks into general availability as well as a new Ultra service variant, designed for latency-sensitive or data-intensive workloads, entering its public preview.

Key metrics there are cost per gigabyte per month, availability and, for applications that hold sensitive data ... and IOPS is 64,000. Azure provides Azure Managed Disks as its block-level ...