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Introducing Asynchronous Cross-Account Copy Blob
We are excited to introduce some changes to the Copy Blob API with 2012-02-12 version that allows you to copy blobs between storage accounts. This enables some interesting scenarios like: Backup your...
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TechEd 2012: New Windows Azure Storage Features, Improved Manageability, and...
We are very excited to release multiple improvements to Windows Azure Storage. These include price reductions, new manageability features, and new service features for Windows Azure Blobs, Tables, and...
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USENIX Best Paper Award: Erasure Coding in Windows Azure Storage
We just published a paper describing how we Erasure Code data in Windows Azure Storage that won a Best Paper Award at the June 2012 USENIX Annual Technical Conference. This was joint work between...
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Exploring Windows Azure Drives, Disks, and Images
With the preview of Windows Azure Virtual Machines, we have two new special types of blobs stored in Windows Azure Storage: Windows Azure Virtual Machine Disks and Window Azure Virtual Machine Images....
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(Cross-Post) Windows Azure Storage – 4 Trillion Objects and Counting
Windows Azure Storage has had an amazing year of growth. We have over 4 trillion objects stored, process an average of 270,000 requests per second, and reach peaks of 880,000 requests per second. About...
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Introducing Windows Azure Storage Client Library 2.0 for .NET and Windows...
Today we are releasing version 2.0 of the Windows Azure Storage Client Library. This is our largest update to our .NET library to date which includes new features, broader platform compatibility, and...
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Windows Azure Storage Client Library 2.0 Breaking Changes & Migration Guide
The recently released Windows Azure Storage Client Library for .Net includes many new features, expanded platform support, extensibility points, and performance improvements. In developing this version...
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Windows Azure Storage Emulator 1.8
In our continuous endeavor to enrich the development experience, we are extremely pleased to announce the new Storage Emulator, which has much improved parity with the Windows Azure Storage cloud...
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Known Issues for Windows Azure Storage Client Library 2.0 for .NET and...
We recently released the 2.0 version of the Windows Azure Storage Client Library. This is our largest update to our .NET library to date which includes new features, broader platform compatibility, and...
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(Cross-Post) Windows Azure’s Flat Network Storage and 2012 Scalability Targets
Earlier this year, we deployed a flat network for Windows Azure across all of our datacenters to create Flat Network Storage (FNS) for Windows Azure Storage. We used a flat network design in order to...
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Windows Azure Storage Client Library for Windows Runtime
We are excited to be releasing two libraries for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 as Community Technology Preview (CTP) that fully support the Windows Runtime platform. These libraries can be used to...
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Windows Azure Storage Client Library 2.0 Tables Deep Dive
This blog post serves as an overview to the recently released Windows Azure Storage Client for .Net and the Windows Runtime. In addition to the legacy implementation shipped in versions 1.x that is...
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AzCopy – Uploading/Downloading files for Windows Azure Blobs
One of the frequent requests we receive is for a simple way to upload or download files between Windows Azure Blob Storage and their local file system. We’re pleased to release AzCopy (Beta Version),...
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Updated: Known Issues for Windows Azure Storage Client Library 2.0 for .NET...
We recently released the 2.0 version of the Windows Azure Storage Client Library. This is our largest update to our .NET library to date which includes new features, broader platform compatibility, and...
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AzCopy – Using Cross Account Copy Blob
Please download AzCopy CTP2 here, and there is a previous blog of AzCopy CTP1 here as a referenceNew features have been added in this releaseSupport of Cross-Account Copy Blob: AzCopy allows you to...
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.NET Clients encountering Port Exhaustion after installing KB2750149
A recent update for .Net 4.5 introduced a regression to HttpWebRequest that may affect high scale applications. This blog post will cover the details of this change, how it impacts clients, and...
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PartitionKey or RowKey containing the percent ‘%’ character causes some...
Description and SymptomsWe have identified an issue that would affect services using Windows Azure Tables whenever the percent character ‘%’ appears as part of the PartitionKey or RowKey.The affected...
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Character Encoding Issues Related to Copy Blob API
This blog applies to the 2011-08-18 storage version or earlier of the Copy Blob API and the Windows Azure Storage Client Library version 1.6.Two separate problems are discussed in this blog:Over REST,...
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10x Price Reduction for Windows Azure Storage Transactions
We heard you loud and clear that you want cheaper transaction costs for Windows Azure Blobs, Tables, Queues, and Drives. We are therefore very pleased today to slash transaction prices 10 fold for...
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New Storage Features on the Windows Azure Portal
We are excited to announce several new storage features available on the Windows Azure Portal. With the updated Portal you have the ability to choose the level of redundancy for your storage,...
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