New enhancements for Azure Disk Storage have been released, including higher performance and cost saving options. The new shared disks feature has reached general availability as well. In April, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The latest release of Azure Storage Explorer bumps the service to version 1.10.0. With this update, the option to easily backup and restore VMs using disk support is being offered. Last month, ...

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Flash storage is increasingly important to the enterprise market, and analysts expect solid-state drives (SSDs) to largely replace spinning disks for enterprise systems, endpoints and consumer devices ...

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 ...