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Implementing Azure Solutions

You're reading from   Implementing Azure Solutions Eliminate the pain point of implementation

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467850
Length 518 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jan-Henrik Damaschke Jan-Henrik Damaschke
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Florian Klaffenbach Florian Klaffenbach
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Oliver Michalski Oliver Michalski
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Azure Implementation FREE CHAPTER 2. Azure Resource Manager and Tools 3. Deploying and Synchronizing Azure Active Directory 4. Implementing Azure Networks 5. Implementing and Securing Azure Storage Accounts 6. Planning and Deploying Virtual Machines in Azure 7. Implementing Azure Cloud Services 8. Implementing Azure Container Service 9. Implementing Azure Security 10. Skill Wrap Up and Migration Scenario

Azure Storage services


As previously mentioned, the difference between the Blob storage and the general purpose storage is to be found in the purpose of usage. While the Blob storage stores unstructured data, the general purpose account stores structured data. Azure differentiates between four types of storage: Blob, Queue, Table, and File storage. It's important to understand the scopes, in order to be able to decide for a certain type of storage.

Blob Storage services

For customers needing to store large sets of unstructured data, Blob storage offers an attractive and scalable answer. The types of data may be retained in Blob storage are: documents, photos, music, videos, blogs, file backup, databases, images and text for web applications, big data, or configuration data for cloud applications.

Containers offer a useful way to assign security policies to sets of objects; each Blob is assigned a container. A Storage account can hold indefinite containers; a container may contain an indefinite...

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