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Premium blob storage

As a follow-up to my blog Azure Archive Blob Storage, Microsoft has released another storage tier called Azure Premium Blob Storage...

2018-11-16 (first published: )

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Premium blob storage

As a follow-up to my blog Azure Archive Blob Storage, Microsoft has released another storage tier called Azure Premium Blob Storage (announcement).  It is in private preview in US East...

2018-11-06

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Azure SQL Database Hyperscale

At Microsoft Ignite, one of the announcements was for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale, which was made available in public preview October 1st, 2018 in 12 different Azure regions.  SQL Database Hyperscale is...

2018-10-16

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