storage

Google recently announced the coming beta of Cloud Filestore. This is a new service that will provide customers with managed storage with a shared file system interface.

We’re entering the laid-back days of Summer. There isn’t much Azure IaaS news, but we’re after quality, not quantity.  June was a good news month for those of us using Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft has launched the final preview release of Azure File Sync.

I predicted that the Build conference would give us lots of Azure news. In one respect, I was right; there was lots of news.

There are four kinds of storage account in Azure and it can be hard to decide on which one to use.

Google recently announced that the beta of its Cloud Memorystore service is now available to the general public.

Microsoft has boosted the per-user storage allocation for SharePoint Online by 20x to make it easier for people to move data to Office 365. It’s a good move, and one that’s probably overdue. Teams and Office 365 Groups have accelerated the use of SharePoint over the last year or so. However, Exchange also increased its storage allocation and that hasn’t got everyone to the cloud. Yet.

We’re just a few weeks away from the Microsoft Build conference, where historically, a lot of announcements are made.

Month 3 of 2018 brought us some interesting news in Azure IaaS. Some things that have been in the oven for a while are starting to rise and there’s lots more evidence of the new and open Microsoft.

Microsoft is at the Open Compute Project Summit and the company is going public with Denali, a next-generation spec for solid-state storage.