Demystifying the Cost of Azure Blob Storage

The Microsoft Azure cloud platform offers a vast array of services including cloud storage. Within Azure storage, there are multiple offerings but the most economical is blob object storage. The very large and growing Azure service offerings make for a complicated charging model. This posting attempts to explain the pricing model for Azure blob storage.… Read more

Comparing Cloud Storage and LTO for Creative Video

  We launched our Cloud File Gateway at NAB in Las Vegas last week and discussed its place in the storage hierarchy with many of the visitors to our booth. We focused on the merits of cloud storage versus a more conventional local LTO library for archived video content. From my NAB discussions, it was…

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