Once shipped back to Microsoft, Data Box contents are loaded into your storage as blobs, ready for use. The similar Azure Import/Export service uses your own hard drives for data transfer.

REDMOND, Wash. -- Microsoft unwittingly let an online security certificate expire Friday, triggering a worldwide outage in an online service that stores data for a wide range of business customers ...

Citrix Systems is making its cloud-based storage service ShareFile more Microsoft-friendly with SharePoint integration and the ability to store data on Azure. Services for storing and sharing ...

Microsoft Power BI users can now collaborate directly with Azure users using data stored in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 through new integration capabilities recently unveiled by Microsoft.

Analysis: There's still only "close to full compatibility" for migration of on-premises Microsoft SQL Server to Azure SQL Database.The differences may be small, but Oracle touts its "same-DB-no ...