Azure Premium Storage: SSD @ Cloud, for Big Data

ScottGu's Blog - Announcing General Availability of Azure Premium Storage

Azure Premium Storage, now generally available | Microsoft Azure Blog by MARK RUSSINOVICH

Premium Storage

"Azure Premium Storage comes with specially designed Virtual Machines—the DS series—to further enhance the disk performance. These VMs leverage new caching technology to provide extremely low latency read operations. You can attach multiple persistent disks, which delivers up to 32TB of storage and more than 64,000 IOPS with less than one millisecond latency for read operations for your time critical applications."

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