Azure Storage Services
An in-depth knowledge of the internals of Azure Storage is not a requirement for leveraging the services. The whole point of cloud services is that, as the consumer of the service, you do not need to know or care how your services are being delivered. As long as the capabilities and performance that you signed up for are available and any SLAs are met, as the customer, you should be happy.
I do believe, however, that it can be useful to understand how services are provided. That knowledge can enable a better understanding of why things behave the way they do and are used the way they are. This section provides a basic overview of the Azure Storage architecture. If you want a detailed explanation, I recommend you download and read the white paper from this site:
http://sigops.org/sosp/sosp11/current/2011-Cascais/11-calder-online.pdf
This white paper was written by the Azure Storage team to document their architecture.
Azure Storage Architecture
In most enterprise...
