Microsoft's Box for Shipping Lots of Data Into the Cloud Now in GA

Abstract

[...]relatively speaking it's more like ditching the freeway to take the bullet train. According to Microsoft, migrating terabytes or petabytes of data over the internet can take months. Last year when Data Box's preview was announced, Microsoft said, "Customers are asking for another option: a secure, human-portable, and easy-to-get Microsoft appliance that enables the offline transfer of large data sets to the Azure cloud."