Goto Azure Home Azure Blob storage 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 is ideal for: Serving images or documents directly to a browser. Streaming video and audio. Writing to log files. Storing data for backup... Continue Reading →
Replication in Azure Storage
Goto Azure Home Storage in any cloud is known for its redundancy. Considering the Data Replication strategies provided by AWS and Google Cloud, Azure also provided utmost storage redundancy options to compete with other Cloud providers. The data in your Microsoft Azure storage account is always replicated to ensure durability and high availability. Azure Storage replication... Continue Reading →
Azure Storage Account
Goto Azure Home Storage Account!! One of the most used terminology when we talk about Azure storage. Azure Storage Account is an Entry point to create Azure Storage Solutions. Azure Storage acts as a roof under which we can create the Storage types like File, Table, Blob, Queue based on the type of Storage account we... Continue Reading →
Storage Types in Azure
Goto Azure Home So far in the earlier articles we have seen Azure offerings related to VM. From this article we would be seeing Storage offerings in Azure. Azure Storage is a Microsoft-managed service providing cloud storage that is highly available, secure, durable, scalable, and redundant. Durable and highly available - Redundancy ensures that your data is... Continue Reading →
Comparison Between Availability Set, Availability Zone and Regional pairs
Goto Azure Home In earlier articles we have seen how Availability Set, Availability Zone and Regional Pair works for a VM. This article would compare the Features between then and where they can be used. Availability sets. To protect against localized hardware failures, such as a disk or network switch failing, deploy two or more VMs... Continue Reading →
Deploying VM Using ARM Template
Goto Azure Home Azure Resource Manager allows you to provision your applications using a declarative template called ARM Template. In a single template, you can deploy multiple services along with their dependencies. You can use the same template to repeatedly deploy your application during every stage of the application lifecycle. The template consists of JSON and... Continue Reading →
Connecting Azure Subscription from Windows Powershell
Goto Azure Home Deployments in Azure shall be done either using portal, Windows Powershell, Azure Powershell, CLI, Visual Studio, Ruby and PHP. This article will help you in connecting Azure Subscription from Windows Powershell. As a first thing make sure your Powershell is updated to Support Azure Cmdlets. If not update your powershell with the MSI... Continue Reading →
Paired Regions in Azure
Goto Azure Home Azure operates across multiple Geographies and each geography has more than one Region except for Brazil Geography which has only one Region. A region may have either one or more Datacenters in them. Now what is paired region. Each Azure region is paired with another region within the same geography, together making a... Continue Reading →
Availability Zone in Azure
Goto Azure Home Once in Central US Region in San Antonio there was Weather breakout that caused the Power interruptions resulted in Cooling System failure and Hardware failure across Racks. This resulted in outage on several VMs in the region and it had taken around two days for Microsoft to bring the entire resources up. The... Continue Reading →
Availability Set in Azure for VM
Goto Azure Home In Microsoft Azure cloud the Servers are actually placed in Racks and there n number of racks been hosted in the cloud and each rack in turn holds n number of servers. The issue is if there is any issue in rack like interruption in power supply then all the VMs in the... Continue Reading →