Microsoft has announced several new storage services, many of which are backed by solid state disks, while the first of two new Azure VM offerings with GPU optimization has entered public preview.

A recent update to Azure Managed Disks offers improved storage throughput and IOPS, but testing shows Premium V2 still leads in consistency under heavy load. Suppose you are a technology professional ...

Initially previewed last month, the new bursting capability for Azure Premium SSD Disks has now been further detailed, with information on support for it on standard managed disks, and more. Last week ...

Microsoft introduced a nifty new feature to its Azure public cloud this week called Managed Disks. The idea is that developers will not have to worry about provisioning storage when spinning up ...

Microsoft has expanded its confidential computing offering and now allows Azure cloud computing service customers to create hardware isolated virtual machines (aka confidential VMs) with Ephemeral OS ...

Microsoft's Linux server distribution is now available as an ISO to install on your own server or virtual machine.

Suppose you are a technology professional dealing with data-intensive workloads. In that case, storage performance is always on your mind. Even more so in the public cloud, where storage typically has ...