Azure Data Box offline information transportation solution allows you nonstop petabytes of information into Azure Storage successful a quick, inexpensive, and reliable manner. The unafraid information transportation is accelerated by hardware transportation devices that alteration offline information ingestion to Azure.

We’re excited to denote respective caller work capabilities including:

• General availability of self-encrypted drives Azure Data Box Disk SKU that enables accelerated transfers connected Linux systems.
• Support for information ingestion to aggregate blob entree tiers successful a azygous order.
• Preview of cross-region information transfers for seamless information ingest from root state oregon portion to prime Azure destinations successful a antithetic state oregon region.
• Support successful Azure Storage Mover for online catch-up information copy of immoderate changes progressive workloads whitethorn person generated station offline migrations with Azure Data Box.

Additionally, we’re blessed to stock the Azure Data Box unreality work is HIPAA/BAA, PCI 3DS and PCI DSS certified. More details connected each of these caller capabilities tin beryllium recovered below.

Azure Data Box Disk: self-encrypted drives

Azure Data Box Disk is present mostly disposable successful a hardware-encrypted enactment successful the European Union, United States, and Japan. These self-encrypting drives (SEDs) usage the dedicated/native/specialized hardware for information encryption, without immoderate bundle dependency from the big machine. These SEDs usage the specialized autochthonal hardware contiguous connected the disk for information encryption, without immoderate bundle dependencies connected the big machine. With this offering, we present enactment comparable data transportation rates connected Linux arsenic that of our BitLocker-encrypted Data Box Disk drives connected Windows.

Azure Data Box Disk SED is fashionable with immoderate of our Automotive customers arsenic it connects straight to the in-car Linux-based information loggers done a SATA interface, thereby eliminating the request for a secondary information transcript from different in-car retention and redeeming time. Here is however Xylon, shaper of automotive information loggers uses Azure Data Box Disk: aforesaid encrypted drives to migrate Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) sensor information to Azure: 

Through the practice with the Microsoft Azure team, we person enabled nonstop information logging to the hardware-encrypted Data Box Disks plugged into our logiRECORDER Automotive HIL Video Logger. It enables our communal customers to transportation precious information from the trial fleet to the unreality successful the simplest and fastest imaginable way, without wasting clip connected unnecessary information copying and reformatting on the way.” 

—Jura Ivanovic, Product Director, Automotive HIL Video Logger, Xylon 

Learn much about Data Box Disk: aforesaid encrypted drives and get started migrating your on-premises information to Azure. 

Multi-access tier ingestion support

You tin present transportation information to antithetic blob entree tiers including Cold Tier successful a azygous Azure Data Box order. Previously, Azure Data Box lone supported transferring information to the default entree tiers of Azure Storage Accounts. For example, if you wanted to determination information to the Cool tier successful an Azure Storage Account that has the default acceptable to hot, you would person had to archetypal determination the information to blistery tier via Azure Data Box and past leverage life rhythm management to determination the information to the Cool tier aft it’s uploaded to Azure. 

We person present introduced caller “access tier” folders successful the folder hierarchy connected the device. All information that you transcript to the “Cool” folder volition person it’s entree tier acceptable arsenic cool, irrespective of the default entree tier of the destination Storage account, and likewise for information copied to different folders representing the assorted entree tiers. Learn much astir multi-access tier ingestion support. 

Cross-region information transportation to prime Azure regions 

We’re excited to stock that Azure Data Box cross-region information transportation capabilities, present successful preview, supports seamless ingest of on-premises information from a root state oregon portion to prime Azure destinations successful a antithetic state oregon region. For example, with this capableness you tin present transcript on-premises information from Singapore oregon India to the West United States Azure destination region. Note that the Azure Data Box instrumentality isn’t shipped crossed commerce boundaries. Instead, it’s transported from and to an Azure information Center wrong the originating state oregon portion wherever the on-premises information resides. Data transportation to the destination Azure portion takes spot crossed the Azure web without incurring further fees. 

Learn much astir this capableness and the supported state oregon portion combinations for Azure Data Box, Azure Data Box Disk, and Azure Data Box Heavy respectively. 

Support for online catch-up transcript with Azure Storage Mover Integration 

If your information root has immoderate progressive workloads, it volition apt marque changes portion your Azure Data Box is successful transit to Azure. Consequently, you’ll besides request to bring those changes to your unreality storage, earlier a workload tin beryllium chopped implicit to it. We’re blessed to denote that you tin present harvester the Azure Storage Mover and Data Box services to signifier an effectual record and folder migration solution to minimize downtime for your workloads. Storage Mover jobs tin observe differences betwixt your on-site and unreality retention to efficaciously transportation immoderate updates and caller files not antecedently captured by your Data Box transfer. For example, if lone a file’s metadata (such arsenic permissions) has changed, Azure Storage Mover volition upload lone the caller metadata alternatively of the full record content. 

Learn much astir however catch-up copies with Azure Storage Mover’s merge and mirror transcript mode tin assistance transfer lone the delta data to Azure.

Certifications

The Azure Data Box unreality work has achieved HIPAA/BAA, PCI 3DS & PCI DSS certifications. These certifications person been cardinal requests from galore of our customers crossed the healthcare and fiscal sectors respectively, and we’re blessed to person achieved the compliance presumption to alteration our customers’ information transportation needs.

Additional merchandise updates

• Support for up to 4 TB Azure files crossed the merchandise family. 

• Support for information transportation to “Poland Central” and “Italy North” Azure regions. 

• Transfers to Premium Azure Files and Blob Archive tiers present supported with Data Box Disk. 

• The data transcript service, which importantly improves the ingestion and upload clip for tiny files, is present mostly available.

Our extremity is to continually heighten the simplicity of your offline information transfers, and your input is invaluable. Should you person immoderate suggestions oregon feedback regarding Azure Data Box, consciousness escaped to scope retired via email astatine [email protected]. We look guardant to you reviewing your feedback and comments.

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