Microsoft Azure Storage Team Blog
Getting the Page Ranges of a Large Page Blob in Segments
One of the blob types supported by Windows Azure Storage is the Page Blob. Page Blobs provide...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 03/26/2012
Windows Azure Storage Client for Java Overview
We released the Storage Client for Java with support for Windows Azure Blobs, Queues, and Tables....
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 03/05/2012
Windows Azure Storage Client for Java Tables Deep Dive
This blog post serves as an overview to the recently released Windows Azure Storage Client for Java...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 03/05/2012
Windows Azure Storage Client for Java Blob Features
We have released the Storage Client for Java with support for Windows Azure Blobs, Queues, and...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 03/05/2012
SOSP Paper - Windows Azure Storage: A Highly Available Cloud Storage Service with Strong Consistency
We recently published a paper describing the internal details of Windows Azure Storage at the 23rd...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 11/20/2011
Blob Download Bug in Windows Azure SDK 1.5
Update: We have now released a fix for this issue. The download blob methods in this version...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 09/27/2011
Windows Azure Storage at BUILD 2011: Geo-Replication and new Blob, Table and Queue features
We are excited to release geo-replication and a new version of the REST API to enable functionality...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 09/16/2011
Introducing Geo-replication for Windows Azure Storage
We are excited to announce that we are now geo-replicating customer’s Windows Azure Blob and...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 09/15/2011
Windows Azure Queues: Improved Leases, Progress Tracking, and Scheduling of Future Work
As part of the “2011-08-18” version, we have introduced several commonly requested features to the...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 09/15/2011
Windows Azure Tables: Introducing Upsert and Query Projection
As part of the “2011-08-18” version, two Windows Azure Table features were introduced; Upsert,...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 09/15/2011
Windows Azure Blobs: Improved HTTP Headers for Resume on Download and a Change in If-Match Conditions
In the new 2011-08-18 version of the Windows Azure Blob service, we have made some changes to...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 09/15/2011
Windows Azure Storage Analytics
Update: You can now configure your logging and metrics via the portal as described here. Windows...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 08/03/2011
Windows Azure Storage Metrics: Using Metrics to Track Storage Usage
Windows Azure Storage Metrics allows you to track your aggregated storage usage for Blobs, Tables...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 08/03/2011
Windows Azure Storage Logging: Using Logs to Track Storage Requests
Windows Azure Storage Logging provides a trace of the executed requests against your storage account...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 08/02/2011
Using SMB to Share a Windows Azure Drive among multiple Role Instances
UPDATED 11/17/11 with a high availability sample We often get questions from customers about how to...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 04/16/2011
Windows Azure Storage Client Library: Rewinding stream position less than BlobStream.ReadAheadSize can result in lost bytes from BlobStream.Read()
Update 3/09/011: The bug is fixed in the Windows Azure SDK March 2011 release. In the current...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 02/27/2011
Windows Azure Storage Client Library: Parallel Single Blob Upload Race Condition Can Throw an Unhandled Exception
Update 11/06/11: The bug is fixed in the Windows Azure SDK September release. There is a race...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 02/22/2011
Windows Azure Blob MD5 Overview
Overview Windows Azure Blob service provides mechanisms to ensure data integrity both at the...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 02/17/2011
Windows Azure Drives with Full IIS in SDK 1.3
With the Windows Azure SDK 1.3 it is now possible to run web roles with Full IIS. If you are...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 02/15/2011
Overview of Retry Policies in the Windows Azure Storage Client Library
The RetryPolicies in the Storage Client Library are used to allow the user to customize the retry...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 02/02/2011
Windows Azure Storage Architecture Overview
Update 1-2-2012: See the new post on Windows Azure Storage: A Highly Available Cloud Storage Service...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 12/30/2010
ERROR_UNSUPPORTED_OS seen with Windows Azure Drives
When running in the cloud, a few customers have reported that CloudDrive.InitializeCache() and...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 12/17/2010
Page Blob Writes in Windows Azure Storage Client Library does not support Streams with non-zero Position
Update 3/09/011: The bug is fixed in the Windows Azure SDK March 2011 release. The current Windows...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 12/17/2010
Changes in Windows Azure Storage Client Library – Windows Azure SDK 1.3
We recently released an update to the Storage Client library in SDK 1.3. We wanted to take this...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 11/30/2010
Windows Azure Storage Client Library: Potential Deadlock When Using Synchronous Methods
Update 11/06/11: The bug is fixed in the Windows Azure SDK September release. Summary In certain...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 11/23/2010
Windows Azure Storage Client Library: CloudBlob.DownloadToFile() may not entirely overwrite file contents
Update 3/09/011: The bug is fixed in the Windows Azure SDK March 2011 release. Summary There is an...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 11/12/2010
Breaking Change for Windows Azure Drive Beta in Guest OS 1.8 and 2.0
Windows Azure drives support the use of a local cache to improve performance of drives. With the...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 11/10/2010
How to get most out of Windows Azure Tables
Introduction Windows Azure Storage is a scalable and durable cloud storage system in which...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 11/06/2010
Storage Client Hotfix Release – September 2010
The issues are resolved in the Windows Azure SDK 1.3 release which can be downloaded here. 1....
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 09/02/2010
How WCF Data Service Changes in OS 1.4 Affects Windows Azure Table Clients
The release of Guest OS 1.4 contains an update to .NET 3.5 SP1 which contains some bug fixes to WCF...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 07/26/2010
Understanding Windows Azure Storage Billing – Bandwidth, Transactions, and Capacity
We get questions about how to estimate how much Windows Azure Storage will cost in order to...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 07/08/2010
Nagle’s Algorithm is Not Friendly towards Small Requests
We had recommended in a forum post about how turning off Nagling can greatly improve throughput for...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 06/25/2010
Updates to Windows Azure Drive (Beta) in OS 1.4
This post refers to OS 1.4; this issue has been resolved for all subsequent OS versions. During...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 06/21/2010
Stream Position Not Reset on Retries in PageBlob WritePages API
The issue is resolved in the Windows Azure SDK 1.3 release which can be downloaded here. We recently...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 06/14/2010
WCF Data Service Asynchronous Issue when using Windows Azure Tables from SDK 1.0/1.1
The issue is resolved in the latest version of the Windows Azure SDK which can be downloaded here....
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 05/27/2010
Updating Metadata during Copy Blob and Snapshot Blob
This issue has been resolved for copy blob operations in the Windows Azure SDK 1.3 release which can...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 05/24/2010
Windows Azure Storage Abstractions and their Scalability Targets
The four object abstractions Windows Azure Storage provides for application developers are: Blobs...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 05/10/2010
Understanding the Scalability, Availability, Durability, and Billing of Windows Azure Storage
Windows Azure Storage allows the application developers, their applications, and their users to...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 05/07/2010
Protecting Your Tables Against Application Errors
“Do applications need to backup data in Windows Azure Storage if Windows Azure Storage already...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 05/03/2010
Protecting Your Blobs Against Application Errors
A question we get asked is the following - Do applications need to backup data stored in Windows...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 04/29/2010
SaveChangesWithRetries and Batch Option
The issue is resolved in the Windows Azure SDK 1.3 release which can be downloaded here. We recently...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 04/22/2010
Windows Azure Storage Explorers
We get a few queries every now and then on the availability of utilities for Windows Azure Storage...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 04/16/2010
Using Windows Azure Page Blobs and How to Efficiently Upload and Download Page Blobs
This post refers to the Storage Client Library shipped in SDK 1.2. Windows Azure SDK 1.3 provides...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 04/10/2010
Windows Azure Drive Demo at MIX 2010
With a Windows Azure Drive, applications running in the Windows Azure cloud can use existing NTFS...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 03/28/2010
Windows Azure Storage Resources
The following are some key resources to understand and use Windows Azure Storage. The online MSDN...
Author: Windows Azure Storage Date: 03/28/2010