Azure Storage innovations: Unlocking the future of data

By Dustin Ward

Microsoft is redefining what’s possible in the public cloud and driving the next wave of AI-powered transformation for organizations. Whether you’re pushing the boundaries with AI, improving the resilience of mission-critical workloads, or modernizing legacy systems with cloud-native solutions, Azure Storage has a solution for you. Learn more about Azure Storage tools and products At…

The new era of Azure Ultra Disk: Experience the next generation of mission-critical block storage

By Dustin Ward

Since its launch at Microsoft Ignite 2019, Azure Ultra Disk has powered some of the world’s most demanding applications and workloads: From real-time financial trading and electronic health records to high-performance gaming and AI/ML services. Ultra Disk was a breakthrough in cloud block storage innovation from the start, introducing independent configuration of capacity, IOPS, and…

Fully managed cloud-to-cloud transfers with Azure Storage Mover

By Dustin Ward

In today’s modern world, cloud strategies are evolving rapidly. Many organizations are embracing multicloud environments, while others are looking to consolidate and migrate workloads to a single trusted platform. At Microsoft, we recognize that the need for secure, reliable, and efficient data movement across platforms is critical. Today, we are announcing the General Availability of…

From queries to conversations: Unlock insights about your data using Azure Storage Discovery—now generally available

By Dustin Ward

We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Storage Discovery, a fully managed service that delivers enterprise-wide visibility into your data estate in Microsoft Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage. Azure Storage Discovery helps you optimize storage costs, comply with security best practices, and drive operational efficiency. With the included Microsoft…

Inside the world’s most powerful AI datacenter

By Dustin Ward

This week we have introduced a wave of purpose-built datacenters and infrastructure investments we are making around the world to support the global adoption of cutting-edge AI workloads and cloud services. Today in Wisconsin we introduced Fairwater, our newest US AI datacenter, the largest and most sophisticated AI factory we’ve built yet. In addition to our…