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 ...

The right Azure Blob Storage tier could save time or money. The wrong one, though, could lead to agonizing waits for important data. Azure Blob is a storage architecture within the Microsoft cloud ...

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 ...

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Microsoft has previewed a new immutable storage capability for its Azure Storage Blobs, a move cheered by cloud-focused solution providers as a way to get clients in regulated industries to move their ...

Microsoft recently released an Azure Storage Discovery, a fully-managed service that provides users with a complete overview of their blob storage estate in preview. The overview shows the user how ...

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure SQL Data Warehouse, a data-analysis service that many companies are likely to find important. Azure is the last of the three major cloud ...