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Windows Azure users can use hard drives to import and export data |
November 05, 2013
Microsoft is offering Windows Azure customers the facility of transferring their data offline to and from Azure storage accounts using hard disk drives.
The company launched Monday a preview of the import and export service that provides built-in support for BitLocker disk encryption, which enables users to encrypt data on the hard drives before they send it.
The service provides an efficient solution for importing large amounts of on-premise data into Windows Azure Blobs or exporting Windows Azure Blobs, the company said in a post. Windows Azure Blob storage is a service for storing large amounts of unstructured data that can be accessed via HTTP or HTTPS.
Physical is the new virtual
Users don’t have to worry if the disks are lost or stolen in transit because only users will have the key to the encrypted data, wrote Scott Guthrie, a Microsoft corporate vice president in the company’s server and tools business, in a blog post. The company is shipping a drive preparation tool to make it easier to set up the encryption on the hard drives, he added.
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