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Windows Azure programming patterns for Start-ups

You're reading from   Windows Azure programming patterns for Start-ups A step-by-step guide to create easy solutions to build your business using Windows Azure services with this book and ebook.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849685603
Length 292 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Riccardo Becker Riccardo Becker
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Here, we shall describe in detail the different storage types and their typical uses. The Windows Azure storage services provide secure and scalable storage capabilities that offer the same high-class availability as you are used to on the platform. It offers a 99.9 percent service-level agreement (SLA). This means that Microsoft guarantees that at least 99.9 percent of the time, valid requests to the storage system are processed correctly. Blobs, tables, and queues are stored on the Windows Azure platform and are replicated at least twice in the same datacenter to offer maximum availability. When a hard disk crashes or some other failure occurs, the platform will still be able to offer the storage service. Blobs and tables are replicated to another datacenter on the same continent. For example, large images stored in blob storage in the Amsterdam datacenter are also replicated to the Dublin datacenter. The platform is therefore able to offer maximum availability of your data, even...

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