The nearly 11-hour outage that hit Microsoft Azure customers earlier this week was due to a performance update Microsoft made to Azure storage services, according to company officials. Microsoft Azure ...

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 leader ...

When it comes to building applications on the public cloud, you’re spoiled for storage. You’ve got SQL, NoSQL, graph databases, document databases, and even good old-fashioned file systems. Choosing ...

A service interruption on Azure storage services late Tuesday was caused by Microsoft’s attempts to roll out a performance update that had been earlier tested for several weeks. An issue was ...

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One of the most basic, common activities when using a cloud service like Microsoft Azure is to simply upload some files. Even though the cloud seems like some complicated entity in which you can't ...

In this video, Scott Jeschonek from Microsoft describes the performance advantages of Azure HPC Cache. “Whether you are rendering a movie scene, searching for variants in a genome, or running machine ...

Let us try to get a generic explanation for each of them! What is Blob storage in Azure? Blob is an acronym for Binary Large object. Basically, a Blob is a sequence of bytes—just what an application ...