Azure Data Box Edge is a "1U rack-mountable appliance" made by Microsoft that can be used to help with compute and storage tasks before transferring data to Azure datacenters. Azure Data Box Edge ...

Microsoft is offering new Visual Studio VM images on its Azure cloud computing platform, some supporting the Dev Box service for cloud-based workstations customized for software development. Azure's ...

The general availability of Azure Data Box Edge is a critical milestone for Microsoft and its customers. It’s the first step in delivering the promise of intelligent cloud and intelligent edge.

Microsoft began testing its first Azure Data Box data-transfer appliance and service in 2017. These products are Microsoft's competitors to Amazon's AWS Snowball.

Both of the big boxes offer AES 256-bit encryption with SMB/CIFS and NFS connectivity. For a little more flexibility, customers can opt for the Azure Data Box Disk, which is actually five disks.

Azure Data Box, Microsoft's heavy-duty data transfer appliance for the cloud, is now generally available after a nearly year-long preview phase.. Microsoft announced the product's general ...

If you’ve got a lot more data, though, then Microsoft now also offers the Azure Data Box Heavy. This new box, which is now in preview, can hold up to one petabyte of data. Microsoft did not say ...

During its Ignite 2018 kickoff, Microsoft has released a number of new Azure Data Box products into preview for online and offline data transfers and signaling increased Azure Stack node limits.

Microsoft MSFT announced various updates regarding Azure Data Box at its annual Ignite, 2018 conference at Orlando, FL. Notably, the conference is scheduled from Sep 24 to Sep 28. The tech giant ...

Users order the box from the Azure portal, load it up with their data and then ship it to Microsoft for ingestion into the Azure cloud. Like the AWS Snowball, the Data Box also features a e-paper ...

Azure Data Box Heavy is now generally available, after entering the preview stage last year. Regional availability of other Data Box solutions, such as Data Box Disk, have been expanded as well.