Microsoft has made the most recent iteration of its Azure Premium vary of strong state drive (SSD) cloud storage obtainable for common sale.

The corporate introduced the discharge of the most recent Azure Premium SSD v2 storage at its Ignite occasion, following an invite-only preview launch in Might 2022 (opens in new tab).

The brand new vary of high-capacity drives for enterprises is designed to supply the bottom latency for “performance-critical workloads”, whereas additionally permitting for storage enlargement as much as 64 terabytes (TiB). 

Microsoft Azure Premium v2 enhancements

Microsoft claims to have achieved “sub-millisecond” latency with the brand new drives, providing 80,000 enter/output operations per second (IOPS) – a 60% enchancment over Azure Premium V1. 

Knowledge transfers must also be lightning quick, with a assured baseline throughput of 125 megabytes per second (MBPS) throughout all drives beneath the brand new specification, and a peak throughput of 1,200 MBPS – an total enchancment of 33% over V1.

The will increase to storage capability might also be of curiosity to Azure Premium SSD v1 customers who really feel restricted by the utmost 32 TiB obtainable. 

Microsoft claims that the all-round will increase to efficiency within the new drive vary will go well with numerous manufacturing workloads and functions, from database software program like SQL Server and Oracle, to analytics, digital machines (VMs), and gaming.

The corporate is even seeking to court docket enterprise clients who might not instantly want the advantages of Azure Premium V2, promising that firms might provision storage capability, IOPS, and throughput “based mostly on their workload necessities”.

This might make the brand new set of drives attraction even to smaller companies who might go on to see regular development, whereas concurrently serving to massive firms reduce their cloud prices throughout a recession.

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