The cloud-storage pricing wars just keep going and going. The latest to trim prices is Microsoft, following similar back-to-back moves by Amazon and Google. On December 5, Microsoft announced its ...

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Microsoft this week rolled out a preview of a new georedundant option as part of its Windows Azure Storage service. The new "read access-geographically redundant storage" option is currently available ...

Microsoft's Windows Azure BLOB storage performed significantly better in a shootout among five leading providers of public cloud infrastructure services, including last year's runaway winner Amazon ...

Microsoft, not content with battling Google in cloud productivity software, is now officially hell-bent on knocking Amazon Web Services off its perch in the cloud infrastructure-as-a-service market.

Both are equally good cloud storage mechanisms -- here's the pros and cons of each so you can make the best decision for your projects. I find many of my customers and colleagues have a hard time ...