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 ...

Microsoft announced on Thursday that it now offers the Azure Ultra Disk solid-state drive (SSD) storage service commercially, or at the "general availability" stage, in a few Azure regions. The ...

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In April, Microsoft released new Azure disk sizes and burst support for Premium SSD Disks to all regions in the Azure Public Cloud. In the following month, at its virtual Build event, the tech giant ...

The past 12 months saw flash storage nudge into areas from which it had hitherto been absent. In particular, this was because of the availability of denser – and therefore cheaper per-gigabyte (GB) – ...

Despite the many advantages of disk storage for backing up data, shipments of tape storage keep growing because for some jobs, tape is best. It might surprise some that despite the popularity of disk ...

NVMe drives have paved the way for computing at stellar speeds, but the technology didn't suddenly appear overnight. It was through an evolutionary process that we now rely on the very performant SSD ...