Saturday, April 07, 2018

Azure Data Box & Azure Migrate Tool

Pack VMs to a "box" and restore all on the cloud... So far Microsoft Azure was offering handling this with encrypted HDDs, and now with an appliance also:

Azure Data Box | Microsoft Azure

Announcing the preview for the Azure Data Box: Achievements will be unlocked | Blog | Microsoft Azure
  • 256 bit AES encryption
  • 100 TB, and uses NAS protocols (SMB/CIFS)

link from Azure Podcast: Episode 223 - Azure Storage Options

Case Study: Azure Data Box | Oceaneering Intl - YouTube

Confidently plan your cloud migration: Azure Migrate is now generally available! | Blog | Microsoft Azure

Microsoft’s new Data Box lets you mail up to 100 TB to its Azure cloud | TechCrunch

Azure Migrate—VM migration software | Microsoft Azure

Azure Migration Center—Cloud Migration Tools | Microsoft Azure




Microsoft has clearly observed utility of similar AWS appliance:

Batch Cloud Data Transfer Services - AWS Snowball Appliance




Azure Box currently does not offer "compute" services, and this is reasonable to expect next,
likely related to Azure Stack platform.  It could be called "Azure Data Box Edge" :)

AWS Snowball Edge – Petabyte-Scale Data Transport with On-Board Storage and Compute
AWS Snowball Edge is a 100TB data transfer device with on-board storage and compute capabilities (Lambda functions)

snowball-edge.319.319

Microsoft opens up testing of Azure Data Box, its Amazon Snowball rival | ZDNet

Google antes up its own cloud migration appliance | ZDNet

Data Transfer Appliance | Offline Data Migration  |  Google Cloud
"Choose from 100TB or 480TB’s of raw capacity per appliance to move your data to Google Cloud quickly."




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