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Introducing Locally Redundant Storage for Windows Azure Storage
We are excited to offer two types of redundant storage for Windows Azure: Locally Redundant Storage and Geo Redundant Storage.Locally Redundant Storage (LRS) provides highly durable and available...
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New Blob Lease Features: Infinite Leases, Smaller Lease Times, and More
We are excited to introduce some new features with the Lease Blob API with the 2012-02-12 version of Windows Azure Blob Storage service. The 2012-02-12 version also includes some versioned changes....
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Introducing Table SAS (Shared Access Signature), Queue SAS and update to Blob...
We’re excited to announce that, as part of version 2012-02-12, we have introduced Table Shared Access Signatures (SAS), Queue SAS and updates to Blob SAS. In this blog, we will highlight usage...
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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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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 BUILD Talk - What’s Coming, Best Practices and Internals
At Microsoft’s Build conference we spoke about Windows Azure Storage internals, best practices and a set of exciting new features that we have been working on. Before we go ahead talking about the...
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Introducing Storage Client Library 2.1 RC for .NET and Windows Phone 8
We are pleased to announce the public availability of 2.1 Release Candidate (RC) build for the storage client library for .NET and Windows Phone 8. The 2.1 release includes expanded feature support,...
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.NET Clients encountering Port Exhaustion after installing KB2750149 or...
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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Announcing Storage Client Library 2.1 RTM & CTP for Windows Phone
We are pleased to announce that the storage client for .NET 2.1 has RTM’d. This release includes several notable features such as Async Task methods, IQueryable for Tables, buffer pooling support, and...
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AzCopy – Transfer data with re-startable mode and SAS Token
Recently, we released a new version of AzCopy with a set of new features. You can download it from here or Microsoft download center (Clicks ‘Download’ button and choose...
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Announcing Windows Azure Import/Export Service Preview
Windows Azure Storage team is excited to announce the preview of Windows Azure Import/Export service which provides an efficient solution for importing large amounts of on- premise data into Windows...
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Windows Azure Tables Breaking Changes (November 2013)
In preparation for adding JSON support to Windows Azure Tables, we are pushing an update that introduces a few breaking changes for Windows Azure Tables. We strive hard to preserve backward...
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Windows Azure Storage Known Issues (November 2013)
In preparation for a major feature release such as CORS, JSON etc. we are pushing an update to production that introduced some bugs. We were notified recently about these bugs and plan to address in an...
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Windows Azure Storage Release - Introducing CORS, JSON, Minute Metrics, and More
We are excited to announce the availability of a new storage version 2013-08-15 that provides various new functionalities across Windows Azure Blobs, Tables and Queues. With this version, we are adding...
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Windows Azure Tables: Introducing JSON
Windows Azure Storage team is excited to announce the release of JSON support for Windows Azure Tables as part of version “2013-08-15”. JSON is an alternate OData payload format to AtomPub, which...
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Windows Azure Storage Redundancy Options and Read Access Geo Redundant Storage
We are excited to announce the ability to allow customers to achieve higher read availability for their data. This preview feature called “Read Access - Geo Redundant Storage (RA-GRS)” allows you to...
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