It allows applications with the S3 API read and write data to Azure Blob, he said. For instance, it allows a data protection application to back up data to and restore data from Azure, he said.

Nasuni currently prefers Microsoft Azure Blob Storage and Message Queue though it uses AWS's Dynamo database and EC2 compute instances, said John Capello, Nasuni's VP of product strategy.

Block blobs—one of three kinds of blobs in Azure Blob storage—make it easy to upload large blobs (up to 4.75TB). CloudBlockBlob cloudBlockBlob = cloudBlobContainer.GetBlockBlobReference(filename); ...

Microsoft's Azure Blob Storage has overtaken Amazon's S3 as the top cloud storage provider, according to performance tests run by storage management vendor Nasuni. In 2011, Amazon was the clear ...

But enterprise cloud storage provider Nasuni offers evidence that Microsoft's Windows Azure Blob Storage competes and sometimes bests Amazon S3 on some of those capabilities. Nasuni released a report ...

Online backup provider Backblaze is branching out today with a new business: an infrastructure-as-a-service-style cloud storage API that's going head to head with Amazon's S3, Microsoft's Azure ...

Hauss also announced that Azure Blob Storage’s maximum supported block size had been raised to 100MB from 4MB. The 50,000 block per Blob limit remains unchanged.

We survey the key cloud storage options available from Microsoft Azure, which include Files, Blob, Elastic SAN, Managed Disk and NetApp files, for a range of use cases.

Starting March 13, Microsoft will be cutting pricing for Windows Azure Block Blobs Storage and Disks/Page Blobs Storage by up to 20 percent, ... and EBS Snapshot to S3 ($0.095/GB per month) ...