Azure administrators can use the Azure Storage service for multiple actions, such as setting up a file server, managing and storing backups, or synchronizing their organization's files. While these concepts are simple, everyone has to understand the implications of their choices. In this chapter, you will find a lot of information for migrating files between local servers and the cloud, monitoring the service, and configuring the network for limiting access and improving security. More and more companies are starting their journey with cloud providers—some of them have terabytes of data that has to be migrated to the cloud at some point. As you will see, there are many ways to achieve the same result—the only difference may be time or the amount of money consumed.
The following topics will be discussed in this chapter...
