Azure Storage, Backup

and Recovery Services

August 16, 2023

AGENDA

• Azure Storage Overview

• Azure CDN Overview
• Azure Backup and Recovery services overview

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AZURE STORAGE
OVERVIEW

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AZURE STORAGE OVERVIEW

• Azure Storage is Microsoft's cloud

storage solution for modern data
storage scenarios.

• Azure Storage offers a massively

scalable object store for data
objects, a file system service for the
cloud, a messaging store for reliable
messaging, and a NoSQL store.

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AZURE STORAGE OVERVIEW

Durable and highly LRS ZRS

Azure Storage is available GRS GZRS

Secure

Scalable

Managed

Accessible

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 AZURE STORAGE SERVICES

Azure Storage

Blob File

Table Queue

Azure Storage also includes managed disk and Azure Elastic SAN (in preview)
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 AZURE STORAGE ACCOUNT

Storage Account

Standard general- Premium block Premium file Premium page

purpose v2 blobs shares blobs

Blob Blob (including Page blobs

(including Data Queue Table Files Data Lake Files
only
Lake Storage) Storage)

For more information about storage accounts see About Azure Storage Accounts and How to create SA
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AZURE STORAGE DATA API AND LIBRARY REFERENCES

Handling:
• synchronous and
asynchronous
invocation
• batching of
operations
• exception
management
• automatic retries
• operational behavior
• and so forth

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TOOLS AND UTILITIES

Azure PowerShell CmdLets for Storage

Azure CLI Commands for Storage

AzCopy Command-Line utility

Azure Storage Explorer

Azure Storage Client tools

Azure Developer Tools

Azure Resource Manager templates for Azure Storage

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BLOB STORAGE

It is Microsoft's
object storage
solution for the
cloud. Blob
storage is
optimized for
storing massive
amounts of
unstructured
data, such as text
or binary data.
Blob Storage

For more information about blobs see Understanding blobs

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 BLOB STORAGE COMMON USAGE

Serving images or
Storing files for Streaming video
documents directly
distributed access and audio
to a browser

Storing data for Storing data for

backup and restore, analysis by an on-
Writing to log files
disaster recovery, premises or Azure-
and archiving hosted service

For more information about Blob storage, see Introduction to object storage on Azure.
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Azure Files

It enables you
to set up highly
available
network file
shares that can
be accessed by
using the
standard Server
Message Block
Azure Files (SMB) protocol.

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 AZURE FILES COMMON USAGE

Replace or
supplement on- "Lift and shift"
premises file applications
servers

Simplify cloud
Containerization
development

For more information about Azure Files, see Introduction to Azure Files.
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TABLE STORAGE

It is a service
that stores
structured
NoSQL data in
the cloud,
providing a
key/attribute
store with a
schemaless
Table Storage
design.

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 TABLE STORAGE COMMON USAGE

Storing datasets that

Storing TBs of don't require complex
structured data capable joins, foreign keys, or
of serving web scale stored procedures and
applications can be denormalized
for fast access

Accessing data using

the OData protocol and
Quickly querying data
LINQ queries with WCF
using a clustered index
Data Service .NET
Libraries
For more information about Table storage, see Overview of Azure Table storage.
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QUEUE STORAGE

Stores large
numbers of
messages that
can be
accessed from
anywhere in
the world via
authenticated
calls using
Queue Storage
HTTP or HTTPS

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 QUEUE STORAGE COMMON USAGE

Decoupling application
components to
increase scalability Load leveling
and tolerance for
failures

Building process
workflows

For more information about Azure Queues, see Introduction to Queues.

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AZURE CDN
OVERVIEW

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AZURE CDN OVERVIEW

Azure storage
account
in Europe
Content

Seattle New Paris Seoul Tokyo

* POP York POP POP POP
POP

Client in
South Korea
* POP - Point of presence
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BENEFITS OF USING AZURE CDN

Better performance Large scaling to

and improved user better handle
experience for end instantaneous high
users loads

Distribution of user
requests and serving
of content directly
from edge servers

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AZURE CDN FEATURES

Dynamic site acceleration

CDN caching rules

HTTPS custom domain support

Azure diagnostics logs

File compression

Geo-filtering

For more information about Azure CDN see CDN Overview

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AZURE BACKUP
AND
RECOVERY SERVICES
OVERVIEW
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AZURE BACKUP OVERVIEW

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WHY USE AZURE BACKUP?

Offload on-premises backup

Back up Azure IaaS VMs

Scale easily

Get unlimited data transfer

Keep data secure

Centralized monitoring and management

Get app-consistent backups

Retain short and long-term data

Automatic storage management

Multiple storage options

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RECOVERY SERVICES VAULT

For more information about Azure Recovery Services Vaults see Overview
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AZURE SITE RECOVERY OVERVIEW

On-premises VMware Azure

virtual machines
Site Recovery Service
Orchestration
On-premises
Windows/Linux
only
physical servers

On-premises Hyper-V
Orchestration, replication,
hosts Azure storage,
failover, and failback
virtual machines, and network

On-premises
Hyper-V hosts Azure
in VMM clouds
Site Recovery Service

For more information about Azure Site Recovery see Overview

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