Moving lots of data to the cloud can take a long time and cost quite a bit, even over fast connections. Like its competitors — and especially AWS — Microsoft has long allowed its Azure users to import ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 availability ...

AWS has its Snowball (and Snowmobile truck), Google Cloud has its data transfer appliance and Microsoft has its Azure Data Box. All of these are physical appliances that allow enterprises to ship lots ...

Last week, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Data Box Edge – a hybrid cloud platform that brings compute and storage closer to the data source. Azure Data Box Edge is the ...