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 ...

Microsoft on Tuesday announced the general availability of Azure Data Box Edge and Azure Data Box Gateway. Azure Data Box Edge is a "1U rack-mountable appliance" made by Microsoft that can be used to ...

In 2017, Microsoft announced the Azure Data Box, a secure and tough appliance for offline data transfer to Azure. Then, at Ignite last year, it was stated that it had now entered general availability.

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This is not a rhetorical question: How do you move 2 petabytes of data to a cloud that can analyze it? It’s not practical to move it over the internet — even with an obscenely fast 10 Gbps connection, ...

Last week Microsoft announced that GA versions of Azure Data Box Edge and Azure Data Box Gateway are now available through the Microsoft Azure Portal. Azure Data Box Edge, the "1U rack-mountable ...

Microsoft is accepting testers into a preview program for its Azure Data Box data-transfer appliance. Azure Data Box weighs 45 pounds and is ruggedized, tamper resistant and manageable, according to ...

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Microsoft Corp. is teaming up with Dell Technologies Inc.’s Dell EMC subsidiary to deliver cloud services to the “tactical edge,” by which they mean remote locations where network connectivity leaves ...

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The company best known for its Windows operating systems and related client and server software but also one of the big five cloud players on Earth is getting into the edge computing business with a ...

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday provided a sneak peak of some upcoming new features in its Power BI and Azure Cloud offerings, ahead of its Inspire partner conference that takes place in Las Vegas next ...