Azure Storage

September 2015
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Machines s Storage Files Premium Network Balancer Route Manager Gateway n Gateway
Storage

Datacenter Infrastructure (24 Regions, 19 Online)

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 Enterprise Workloads Depend on
Storage
Nearly all of today’s workloads require storage

Majorit
y of
40%
increase in
today’s Cloud
workloads Storage
require spend2
storage

Cloud
Adoption

52%
increase in
cloud
spend1

1 Computerworld Forecast Study 2015

2 Forrester: Industry Outlook 2015
The Storage Dilemma
Storage challenges impact how well an enterprise can achieve the benefits
of the cloud
Capacity Backup & Unmanageabl Limited IT
charges Disaster e complexity agility
Recovery
Azure Storage
Highly scalable cloud storage with built-in security, durability, and
reliability

Blobs Tables Queues Disks

Highly scalable, Massive auto-
Reliable Persistent Files
messaging at Premium & SMB 3.0 access to
REST based cloud scaling NoSQL
scale for cloud Standard disks for Azure Storage
object store store
services Azure IaaS VMs

Azure AZCopy
High-performance data
Import/Export upload, download, & copy
Ship data in hard disk drives
Recognized as a market leader

GARTNER recognized Microsoft

Azure as a leader for the
SECOND YEAR IN A ROW based
on completeness of vision and
ability to execute.3

AZURE STORAGE
IS RECOGNIZED AS THE
BEST PERFORMER
IN INDEPENDENT BENCHMARK
TESTS.4

3 Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Storage Services

4 Nasuni:The 2015 State of Cloud Storage Report
Top Use Cases for Azure Storage
Modern Born in-
Cloud
Applications

Modern Cloud Managed

Applications Cloud File
Share
Azure Storage
Enterprise Big Data &
Applications Analytics

Backup and
Disaster Hybrid Cloud
Recovery Storage

10
Backup and Disaster Recovery
Easily backup VMs and data on Azure Storage and orchestrate recovery

BLOB
Storage
Protect important data with
automated backup to Azure Storage Azure Storage
Ensure business continuity with
automatic recovery OMS Suite

Use consistent tools for backup & Azure Azure Site WS SC/DPM
Backup Recovery 2012
recovery to local disk or Azure
Storage

Our IT staff no longer has to handle tapes daily, coordinate with the external storage company, and pay for tape
equipment maintenance, all of which equates to a savings of €30,000 to 40,000 [US$33,000 to $45,000] annually -
Daniel Platz Pantaenius Group IT Manager
Hybrid Cloud Storage with StorSimple
Use a tiered, limitless storage solution spanning on-premises to cloud

StorSimple connects Windows, Linux, and VMware Enterprise SAN storage

servers to Azure Storage in minutes with no application
modification

BLOB
Inline de-dupe, compression &
Storage automatic tiering

Automated offsite data protection

Azure Storage using cloud snapshots

Applications in Physical Highly efficient, location

or Virtual Servers independent disaster recovery

StorSimple

With StorSimple, data is copied to the cloud in half the time, and files can be brought back from Azure in minutes instead
of 24 hours - Kai Sookwongse Group Manager, Mazda North American Operations 12
Enterprise Applications using Premium
Storage
Seamlessly run high performance on-premises workloads on Azure

Premium Storage is an SSD-based Disk & Virtual Machines

storage solution Premiu COMPUTE

m D and G series VMs
Storage
Run high-performance enterprise-
grade workloads using Premium
STORAGE
Storage
Premium Storage (SSD)
Premium Storage works with G-
series and D-series Enterprise Applications
SQL Exchang SAP Share- Dynamic Cassand Dynamic
Oracle
Server e Server Suite Point s CRM ra s AX
Industry-leading performance

64 TB 80,000
2000 MB
capacity per second IOPS
per VM

Solid State Drive

With Azure Premium Storage, we envisage that our current virtual machines can scale to handle more than 500 million
SQL Server transactions weekly. This will reduce our overall costs, which is key as we 13
scale globally - Philip Ball Serko
Chief Technical Officer
Managed Cloud File Share using Azure
File
Reduce costs by moving File Server and Share to the Cloud

Manage your file server and share File

without hardware required APP SERVE Storage
S R

Highly available, geo-replicated SMB

across regions
AZURE FILE
Built on industry-standard SMB 3.0
Azure Storage
Mount the file share from on-
premises or cloud

SMB File
APP SERVE
S R Server/
Share
Modern Born-in-the-Cloud Applications
Build modern applications with hyper-scale needs using Azure Storage

Personal & Always Always

contextual connected accessible
Tables

BLOB
Storage

Azure Storage
Always
evolving Data intensive

We figured that we had one shot to be successful at our first foray into the consumer software business, and using
15 Canseco, Managing
Microsoft Azure to develop and run Delphi Connect helped us achieve that success – “Victor
Director for Software and Services, Delphi Electronics and Safety Delphi Automotive”
Big Data & Analytics
Gain actionable insight based on your data in Azure Storage

BLOB
Storag
e

Azure
Storage
HDINSIGHT STREAM ANALYTICS MACHINE LEARNING DATA LAKE

Retrospective Real-time Predictive Intelligent

analytics analytics analytics SaaS apps

We can take analytics to an entirely new level—the level of predictive, actionable analysis—with Azure Machine
16
Learning – “Doug Weber Rockwell Automation Business Manager, Remote Application Monitoring”
Partner Ecosystem
Azure Storage vs. Traditional
Datacenter
Analyze costs associated Traditional
Azure Storage
with … Datacenter
Productivity & Time-to-market Slow - Medium Instant

Server infrastructure CapEx + OpEx OpEx

Traditional storage infrastructure CapEx + OpEx OpEx

Infrastructure management $$$ N/A

Scalability (limits) Finite Infinite

80% - 80% - Innovating and increasing

IT Agility & Innovation
“keeping lights on” business revenue

Economics CapEx + OpEx Cloud

Azure Storage Roadmap
Capability Scenario Competitive Offering
Managed File Server/Share on
Azure Files (GA) AWS EFS in Preview
Azure

Encryption at Rest Better Enterprise Security AWS Server encryption (GA)

Low cost option for data less Google Nearline (GA)

Cool Storage (Preview)
frequently accessed AWS S3 Standard – IA (GA)

Archive Storage Very low cost offer for Archive AWS Glacier (GA)
(Preview) scenarios Google Nearline (GA)
Strong Customer & Industry
Momentum

44 ZBs
>50% Digital Data in
>80% 40%
Cloud by 2020 Of Fortune 500 Companies YoY Rapid Data Growth
use Microsoft Cloud (IDC)
(IDC)

>60 Trillion
Storage objects in Azure & >90,000 $8.7B
>7 Million
Transaction Per Second
New Azure customer
subscription/month
cloud storage spending by 2017

(Gartner)
Get Started
To learn more about
Azure Storage, visit:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/
services/storage
/

Details on pricing can

be
found here:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/
pricing/details/storage
/
Supporting Technical
Slides
Azure Storage Offerings
Blobs Tables Queues Disks Files
“Highly scalable, “Massive auto- “Reliable “Persistent disks “SMB Access to
REST based cloud scaling NoSQL messaging at for Azure IaaS Azure Storage”
object store” store” scale for cloud VMs”
services” Map to file share,
Block Blobs: Dynamic scaling Built on page blobs standard file system
Sequential file I/O based on load Decouple and scale semantics
components Premium Storage
Page Blobs: Scale to PBs of table Disks: SSD based, “Lift and shift”
Message visibility legacy apps
Random-write data high IOPS, low
timeout and update
pattern data message to protect latency
Fast key/value against unreliable
lookups dequeuers
Code against (REST Use on Windows &
API) Linux VMs

Azure AZCopy
High-performance data
Import/Export upload, download, & copy
Ship data in hard disk drives

Data Transfer Options

Developer-Friendly Experience
Blobs Tables Queues
Service APIs Service APIs Service APIs
• List Containers • Set/Get Table Service Properties • Set/Get Queue Service Properties
• Set/GET Blob Service Properties • Preflight Table Request • Preflight Queue Request
• Preflight Blob Request • Get Table Service Stats • Get Queue Service Stats
• Get Blob Service Stats • Query Tables • List Queues

Container APIs: Queue APIs

• Create Container Table APIs • Create Queue
• Get/Set Container Properties/Metad • Create Table • Delete Queue
ata • Delete Table • Get/Set Queue Metadata
• Get/Set Container ACL • Set/Get Table ACL • Get/Set Queue ACL
• Lease Container
• Delete Container
• List Blobs Entity APIs Message APIs
• Insert Entity • Put Message
Blob APIs: • Update Entity • Get Messages
• Put Blob • Merge Entity • Peek Messages
• Get Blob • Insert Or Merge Entity • Delete Message
• Get/Set Blob Properties • Insert Or Replace Entity • Update Message
• Delete Blob • Query Entity • Clear Messages
• Lease Blob • Query Entities
• Snapshot Blob • Entity Group Transactions
• Copy Blob
Industry-Leading Availability &
Reliability
 Azure Storage Offerings vs AWS
Block Tables Queues Disks File
Azure Storage

Blobs

S3 DynamoD SQS EBS EFS

AWS

“Secure, “Fast, reliable, “Block level “Storage

durable, highly-
B scalable, fully storage service for
“Fast and
scalable object managed volumes for use Amazon EC2
flexible NoSQL
storage” message with Amazon instances”
database
queuing EC2 instances”
service”
service”
Azure Premium Storage Disks
Flexible Pricing – VMs and disks by the hour

Disk Types P10 P20 P30

Disk Size 128 GB 512 GB 1024 GB

IOPS Per Disk 500 2,300 5,000

Throughput per Disk 100 MB/Sec 150 MB/Sec 200 MB/Sec

Price per month $17.92 per month $66.56 per month $122.88 per
month
Premium Storage Design
Virtual Machine
DS-Series VM supports disk caching

Blobcache, caching layer

Blobcache
RAM Cache

Server SSD Cache

Persistent data on our industry

Azure
leading existing LRS with three
Storage replicas
Page Blobs
Premium Storage Design: 3-Level
System
DS-Series VM

Uncache Cached Local

d Premium Disk
Premium Storage
Storage Disk
Disk

Disk-Level Disk-Level
Provisionin Provisionin
g g

SSD-Level Provisioning
Cache Miss Cache Hit

VM Network-Level Provisioning Serve

r SSD

Azure Storage
Page Blobs
Supported Partner Solutions
Seamlessly run high performance on-premises workloads on Azure

Key Workload driving Azure

Partner Product Solution
Consumption

CommVault Simpana Backup

Veeam® Backup &
Backup and DR
Replication™

Seagate Evault Backup and DR

NetApp AltaVault Backup

QuickSilver Hybrid Storage

Nasuni Filers (NF) Hybrid Storage

ShareFile File Sharing

Azure Storage vs. AWS
Customer Question Answer

We need enterprise-ready storage solution Azure Storage is enterprise-ready, strongly consistent, highly available, and scalable. AWS is
that is strongly consistent. not strongly consistent but only eventually consistent.

We need a 1st party solution for hybrid cloud Azure Storage is integrated with 1st party hybrid solution from StorSimple. AWS does not
storage. have a 1st party hybrid solution.

How can we be sure our data is safe in case Azure Storage is integrated with Azure Site Recovery, Backup, and DPM. AWS does not have a
of an unexpected event? 1st party DR solution.

Azure Premium Storage offers 30% higher IOPS than AWS for same price. EBS offers 30% less
AWS is less expensive.
IOPS than Premium Storage for same price.

Azure Premium Storage has 3 replicas and is highly durable. EBS offers 2 replicas and lower
We need robust durability.
durability.

Do we have to change application code for No, Azure Files supports SMB 3.0, which is widely used in Windows Server and also supported
our files? on Linux. EFS only supports NFS, which is mostly supported on Linux.

Azure Files available in all Azure Regions. EFS is in preview and is available only in one
Are storage services available in our region? region.
Azure Storage Resources

Additional Resources
• Azure Storage 5 Minute Overview

• Azure Files

• Premium
Storage: High-Performance Storage f
or Azure Virtual Machine Workloads

• Premium Storage REST operations

• Using Blob Service Operations with A

zure Premium Storage

• “DS” series VM specifications

• Migrating to Azure Premium Storage

• Channel 9 video on Premium Storage