1. CloudSimplified.IO

2. Azure Storage Services
IaaS
Virtual machines
Storage
Networking
PaaS
Existing frameworks
Web and mobile
Serverless Compute
Microservices
Disks
Persistent disks for Azure IaaS VMs
Files
Fully Managed File Shares in the Cloud
Blobs
Highly scalable, tiered, REST based cloud object store
Tables
Massive auto-scaling NoSQL store
Queues
Reliable queues at scale for cloud services
Unified Distributed Storage System
Highly Available
Durable, Strongly Consistent
Secure
Cost effective
Scalable
User friendly
100+ Trillion objects
30 Million TPS

3. Big Data from IoT, Genomics, etc
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Blob Storage Service
App and Web scale data
Backups and Archive
Big Data from IoT, Genomics, etc
Store and serve
Block Blobs
Most object storage scenarios
Append Blobs
Multi-writer append only scenarios
Page Blobs
Page aligned random reads &writes
Writer 1
Writer 2
Writer 3
Block 1
Block 4
Block 3
Block 2
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Sparse File
512 byte aligned
512
1024
1536
2048
2560
Block 1
Block 2
Block 3
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4. Lower Transaction cost
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Tiered Storage
Object-Level Tiering
Individual blobs can move between tiers
All tiers of blobs co-exist in a storage account
Blob REST API
Hot Blobs
Lower Transaction cost
Blob Storage Account
Cool Blobs
Lower Capacity cost
Object-Level Tiering
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5. Lower Transaction cost
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Tiered Storage
Object-Level Tiering
Individual blobs can move between tiers
All tiers of blobs co-exist in a storage account
New Storage Tier – Archive Storage
Cold storage for long term data
Retrieval latency is hours
Consistent API Among Storage Tiers
Access through Blob REST API
Support direct writes to Archive
Blob REST API
Hot Blobs
Lower Transaction cost
Blob Storage Account
Cool Blobs
Lower Capacity cost
Archive Blobs
Lowest cost
Object-Level Tiering
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6. Azure Files Lift and Shift Variety of clients/protocols Secure Sync
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Azure Files
Client
Application
On Premises
Azure
\\<account>.file.windows.net\<share>
SMB:
Port 445 outbound
Lift and Shift
Variety of clients/protocols
SMB 2.1, 3.0, REST
Windows, Linux, Mac OS
Azure and on premises access
Secure
Encryption at rest
Secure communication over SMB
Sync
Multi-site access
Cloud tiering
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7. West Europe East US Branch Office HQ Server Branch Office ! PaaS IaaS
SMB
REST
Azure Backup Vault
West Europe
File Share
File Share
East US
Work Folders
SMB
NFS
Users
Applications
Branch Office
HQ Server
Branch Office !