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 ...

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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.

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, ...

Microsoft is accepting testers into a preview program for its Azure Data Box data-transfer appliance. Azure Data Box weighs 45 pounds and is ruggedized, tamper resistant and manageable, according to ...