As the old adage says, never under estimate the bandwidth of a 40T truck
Microsoft wants to cart your data away in a box and punt it onto Azure
Microsoft has released the Azure Data Box, another hardware appliance for booting business data into the cloud. The box, which was previewed around a year ago, is now available in a multitude of flavours depending on how many bits and bytes you want to store on other people's computers – that is, Microsoft Azure cloud. The …
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Thursday 27th September 2018 10:11 GMT hoola
And getting it out???
And one assumes that they will quite happily do the reverse if you need to move it somewhere else. Not a chance in hell of that. Everything to do with Azure is about Microsoft getting their hands on as much as possible and then never letting go unless you have very deep pockets.
Cloud does have its place but the way it is being sold as this gold-plated solution to everything is just wrong. If this were a consumer product, some sort of financial service or such like then Trading Standards or another regulatory body should be taking an interest.
SLAs are promised that are meaningless with as they appear to be able to wriggle out of anything being down, even when it is blatantly broken.