Azure Cloud Storage Options
Recently I was a guest on fellow Microsoft MVP Navika Chhauda podcast Tech Chat with Navika on YouTube. We discussed various Microsoft Cloud Storage Options, services, features and use cases. Here’s the link to the podcast episode Understanding Azure Storage.
Our conversation included an overview of the various Azure Cloud Storage options and services along with some use cases. Our conversation covered Azure Cloud Storage options such as Blobs (e.g. objects) including Append, Block and Page blobs. We also discussed various File, Block including Azure Disk (for Azure VMs with NVMe SSD and HDDs). Another Azure Cloud Storage option is Azure Elastic SAN with various storage tiers.
We also discussed scenarios for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Blob and file options, how they differ, as well as when to use the different types of storage. In addition, we discussed the integration of Azure Disk Storage with Azure Site recovery along with Azure Backup, as well as Data Box among other items.
Additional Resources Where to learn more
Learn more about:
Azure Cloud Storage here
Microsoft Azure Data Box here
Azure Elastic SAN from Cloud to On-Prem here
Navika Chauda on LinkedIn here
Cloud and Software Defined Data Infrastructure topics here
Additional learning experiences along with common questions (and answers) pertaining to Cloud, Hardware, Software, Services, techniques, server, storage, I/O networking, data protection among other topics are found in my Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials book.
What this all means
There is more to cloud storage than just objects and buckets or in Microsoft Azure parlance blobs and containers. Various storage options, tiers, categories and services are provided by the different cloud providers including Microsoft Azure. Some cloud storage options are for use within the cloud, while others can be used hybrid including from on-prem. These various Azure Cloud Storage Options support different workloads from new cloud native and Kubernetes based to traditional VM as well as on-prem, from data protection to on-line high performance, to AI among many others.
Ok, nuff said.
Cheers Gs
Greg Schulz – Nine time Microsoft MVP Cloud and Data Center Management and Azure Storage, along with previous ten-time VMware vExpert. Author of Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials (CRC Press), as well as Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press), The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press), Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier) and twitter @storageio. Courteous comments are welcome for consideration. First published on https://storageioblog.com any reproduction in whole, in part, with changes to content, without source attribution under title or without permission is forbidden.
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