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 ...

Azure Data Box Heavy is now generally available, after entering the preview stage last year. Regional availability of other Data Box solutions, such as Data Box Disk, have been expanded as well. In ...

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, ...