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, ...

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.

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 ...

More and more enterprise data is being transferred to the cloud, but sometimes the journey can break the network's back – which calls for less virtual and more physical solutions. Microsoft has ...

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 ...

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 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 ...