What is Azure’s Data Box Edge?
Together with Data Box Gateway and a variety of Data Box transfer products (online,
Data Box Edge provides a secure link between Azure storage and your site. Moving data
in and out of Azure has never been easier; easier than working with local network
shares! Together, they offer the highest performance in transfer capabilities, removing
all the hassle of transporting data across the network. Not only that, but Data Box Edge
is also an Edge computing appliance fully enabled with Artificial Intelligence.
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- A fully AI-enabled device
- Data Box Edge is a physical device only available from Microsoft
- It is a storage gateway
- It fully supports NFS or SMB protocols
- It has support for Azure Files or Azure Blobs
- It has a 1U chassis, 6GB RAM and 2 x 10-core CPUs
- It has 12TB local NVMe SSD storage