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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 extending its Azure Data Box family with a new ruggedized version that can fit in a backpack. The newest member, ruggedized Azure Data Box Edge, is an appliance for transferring data to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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These days, the words "Microsoft" and "Edge" are usually associated with the Redmond giant's browser for Windows 10 and sometimes for the wrong reasons as evidenced by new test functionality that ...