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Blog Post: Hybrid Cloud Storage – Look Closely before Picking a Solution

MA Farley

By Mark Weiner, Director of Product Marketing, Microsoft Cloud storage is one of the hottest segments of cloud computing. Enterprise customers are increasingly looking at cloud storage as a way to leverage the benefits of cloud economics and agility without giving up performance and improving data...

on19 Feb 2013
Blog Post: How Hybrid Cloud Storage offloads storage management to the cloud

MA Farley

As the saying goes, "when you’re up to your neck in alligators, it’s easy to forget that the initial objective was to drain the swamp." IT professionals are plenty familiar with compelling interruptions that need to be dealt with quickly, but keep them from getting high-priority work done...

on8 Jan 2013
Blog Post: 28% more is a small amount to pay for Geo Replication

MA Farley

On December 5th Microsoft announced a pricing reduction for Windows Azure Storage. One of the more noticeable aspects of the announcement was the breakdown of storage costs between Geo Replicated Storage and Locally Redundant Storage. To summarize, Geo Replicated Storage costs approximately 28% more...

on16 Dec 2012
Blog Post: Cloud-integrated Storage: a Breakthrough Enterprise-level Storage Plug-in

MA Farley

The term "hybrid cloud" has been defined many different ways. At Microsoft hybrid cloud refers to data center functionality that spans on-premises and cloud service boundaries. At least that's how I'm understanding it now after having been part of the company for a few weeks. To clarify my perspective...

on11 Dec 2012