The data that goes to the Azure Data Box Gateway "will automatically upload to your Azure Storage account, supporting Block Blob, Page Blob or Azure Files," Microsoft clarified.

The general availability of Azure Data Box Edge is a critical milestone for Microsoft and its customers. It’s the first step in delivering the promise of intelligent cloud and intelligent edge.

In addition, the company is addressing the needs for extra large offline data transfers by introducing the 1PB Azure Data Box Heavy, which is also in preview. According to the blog post, Data Box Edge ...

Microsoft describes the now-available Azure Data Box as a "ruggedized device" that organizations can rent from Microsoft when they need to transfer large amounts of data -- up to 100TB -- securely ...

Last week Microsoft announced that GA versions of Azure Data Box Edge and Azure Data Box Gateway are now available through the Microsoft Azure Portal. Azure Data Box Edge, the "1U rack-mountable ...

Microsoft MSFT announced various updates regarding Azure Data Box at its annual Ignite, 2018 conference at Orlando, FL. Notably, the conference is scheduled from Sep 24 to Sep 28.

If you’ve got a lot more data, though, then Microsoft now also offers the Azure Data Box Heavy. This new box, which is now in preview, can hold up to one petabyte of data. Microsoft did not say ...

First, you’ve got a bunch of data in your enterprise and you’d like it to be in Azure. You call us up, we send you a disk, you fill up that disk, send it back to us, and it shows up in Azure.

During its Ignite 2018 kickoff, Microsoft has released a number of new Azure Data Box products into preview for online and offline data transfers and signaling increased Azure Stack node limits.

The Data Box offer also includes two connected appliances – the Data Box Gateway and Edge. As the name suggests, the Gateway allows data transfer to Azure using protocols in use in the enterprise.