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Overview

Azure Storage is a Microsoft-managed service providing cloud storage that is highly available, secure, durable, scalable, and redundant. Azure Storage includes Azure Blobs (objects), Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Azure Files, Azure Queues, and Azure Tables.

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Getting Started

Getting Started

Get started with Azure Storage

11/8/2016, Video, 0:04:19

Learn how to get started using Azure Storage services including blobs, tables, files, and queues from Windows and Linux.
Azure Storage Performance, Scalability and Security

4/29/2015, Video, 0:56:44

Cloud, on premise, and mobile applications are all increasingly using cloud storage. Azure Storage is a cloud storage service which provides scalability, durability, and...
Understanding and Using Azure Storage

11/16/2017, Trainings

Understanding the storage capabilities in Azure can ensure an optimal infrastructure deployment and that you're using the right type of service while minimizing how much your...
Planning and Designing Microsoft Azure Storage Solutions

11/16/2017, Trainings

Understanding the storage capabilities in Azure can ensure an optimal infrastructure deployment and that you're using the right type of service while minimizing how much your...
Use Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) as a starting point on your cloud journey

9/28/2016, Video, 1:08:59

The benefits of Cloud to IT organizations is undeniable, yet many of you are in early stages of plotting out your journey to the Cloud. Microsoft Azure IaaS is a collection of...
Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer

6/20/2016, Tool

Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer (Preview) is a standalone app from Microsoft that allows you to easily work with Azure Storage data on Windows, OSX and Linux.
Data on Azure: The big picture

9/28/2017, Video, 1:12:13

Microsoft Azure provides a broad range of services for working with data. Using these services well requires knowing at least a little bit about all of them. In this session,...

Videos

Overview of Azure Disk Storage security features

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11/25/2020, YouTube: Microsoft Azure

Overview of Azure Disk Storage security features

What’s New with Azure Storage

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11/25/2020, YouTube: Microsoft Azure

What’s New with Azure Storage

Run clustered applications on Azure with shared disks

0:12:54

11/25/2020, YouTube: Microsoft Azure

Run clustered applications on Azure with shared disks

Azure SQL Database: Improving Performance Tuning with Automatic Tuning | Data Exposed: MVP Edition

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11/24/2020, YouTube: Microsoft Developer

Azure SQL Database: Improving Performance Tuning with Automatic Tuning |...

Azure SQL Database: Improving Performance Tuning with Automatic Tuning

0:08:19

11/24/2020, Data Exposed

Azure SQL Database: Improving Performance Tuning with Automatic Tuning

All Around Azure: Summary ep44 - Azure Storage the Unsung Hero

0:12:25

11/12/2020, YouTube: Microsoft Developer

All Around Azure: Summary ep44 - Azure Storage the Unsung Hero

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Learning

Learning Paths

Store data in Azure

Published: 1/31/2018, Length: 3:50:00

This learning path gets you started with the basics of storage management in Azure, Storage Account creation, and choices for data storage.

Architect storage infrastructure in Azure

Published: 10/23/2019, Length: 6:07:00

Learn how to architect storage solutions for your applications in Azure.

Implement a Data Warehouse with Azure Synapse Analytics

Published: 1/31/2019, Length: 2:53:00

Azure Synapse Analytics provides a relational big data store that can scale to Petabytes of data. In this learning path, you will learn how Azure Synapse Analytics can achieve this scale with its’ Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architecture. Create a data warehouse in minutes and use familiar querying language to build reports. Load massive amounts of data in minutes, and ensure that...

Learning Modules

Deploy to multiple Azure environments by using ARM templates

Published: 7/10/2020, Length: 0:39:00

Connect an app to Azure Storage

Published: 9/24/2018, Length: 1:15:00

Store and Access NoSQL Data with Azure Cosmos DB and the Table API

Published: 4/30/2019, Length: 0:29:00

Set up continuous data export from Azure IoT Central to a Power BI app

Published: 6/30/2020, Length: 1:09:00

Introduction to securing data at rest on Azure

Published: 10/29/2019, Length: 0:30:00

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Azure Storage News

12/1/2020, Service Updates

Azure Storage blob inventory public preview

The Azure Storage blob inventory, which provides an overview of your blob data within a storage account, is now available for public preview in France Central, Canada Central, and Canada East.

11/30/2020, MS Tech Community

Meta-data driven key-value pairs extraction with Azure Form Recognizer

Most organizations are now aware of how valuable the forms (pdf, images, videos…) they keep in their closets are. They are looking for best practices and most cost-effective ways and tools to...

11/30/2020, MS Tech Community

SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: November 2020

This month brought some nice SharePoint, Teams, Lists and more features that don’t disappoint, in fact it was a personal, insightful, recovery kinda month – tech’nically speaking. November 2020...

11/30/2020, MS Tech Community

Ingestion, ETL, and Stream Processing with Azure Databricks

This post is part of a multi-part series titled "Patterns with Azure Databricks". Each highlighted pattern holds true to 3 principles for modern data analytics: A Data Lake to store...

11/26/2020, MS Tech Community

Sap on oracle setup on Azure - Part1

Overview This document covers the step by step procedure to set up and configure SAP on Oracle ASM (Oracle Linux 8.2 /Oracle 19c) on Azure . As this setup involves a large number of steps, it is...

11/26/2020, MS Tech Community

Sap on Oracle with ASM on Microsoft Azure - Part1

Overview This document covers step by step procedure to set up and configure SAP on Oracle ASM (Oracle Linux 8.2 /Oracle 19c) on Azure . As this setup involves a large number of steps, it is very...

11/25/2020, MS Tech Community

Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 97

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 81 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers...

11/24/2020, MS Tech Community

Azure Advocates Weekly Round Up - Scaling Events w/ Serverless, Cog Services, and DevOps Boards

XR Tea Party: BabylonJS & WebXRAysegul Yonet Azure Stack Hub Partner Solutions Series - Cloud AssertThomas Maurer This week, Tiberiu Radu (Azure Stack Hub PM) and I, had the chance to speak...

11/23/2020, MS Tech Community

Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 96

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 83 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers...

11/20/2020, MS Tech Community

New Diagnostic for Teams Meeting Recording

Hi Teams Community, As you may have heard, Microsoft Teams usage is up, WAY up and we recently announced a new "daily collaboration minutes" metric. To quote: "This quarter, Microsoft 365...

11/19/2020, MS Tech Community

Upcoming Changes to Microsoft Information Protection Metadata Storage

In Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) SDK version 1.7, changes were made to support a new label metadata storage location for Office files – Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. For your applications...

11/17/2020, Service Updates

HDInsight HBase Accelerated Writes with Premium Data Lake Storage Gen2 is now generally available

With Premium Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 support for accelerated writes HDInsight HBase cluster, customers can now have increased read performance compared to standard storage and also take...

11/17/2020, MS Tech Community

Azure for Academics Video Series

This is a series of Azure applied workshops where participants will start with the basics of cloud, getting started on Azure, and will then move on to learn about Azure's Data and Machine...

11/17/2020, MS Tech Community

HOW TO: Create a Windows Server 2019 NAS / FileServer from the command line

My old Synology NAS for home use had started to show signs of wear and was in need of replacement. It had plenty of disk space and performed well enough - but the version I had lacked any real...

11/16/2020, MS Tech Community

Azure Synapse Variable DWU Level Usage - Cost Optimization using Reserved Instance Pricing

What is covered in this blog post? Recently I went through a Cost Optimization exercise of evaluating Azure Synapse Reserved instance pricing with my customer and this blog post documents the...

11/16/2020, MS Tech Community

Azure HPC Videos

Strategic investments bolster versatility and relevance of Azure HPC for Microsoft As I look at SC20 quickly approaching on my calendar, I cannot help but reflect on what has happened since the...

11/16/2020, MS Tech Community

Azure HPC @Supercomputing '20

Welcome to our SC ’20 virtual events blog. In this blog we share all the related Microsoft content at SC ’20 to help you discover relevant content more quickly. Note: There are 2 categories...

11/16/2020, MS Tech Community

How to choose correct Availability Zones for SAP Application cross-zone deployment

In Azure, availability zones are physically separate locations within an Azure region. Each availability zone is made up of one or more datacenters equipped with independent power, cooling, and...

11/16/2020, MS Tech Community

AI and Azure Learning All Around Azure Nov 18th 2020

Are you interested in wanting to leverage AI services and learn more about what’s on offer? Wanting to explore what it takes to get your Azure AI Fundamentals Certification? If so, this event is...

11/16/2020, MS Tech Community

Accelerating Drug Discovery with Supercomputing Scale Biomolecular Simulations on Azure

Since March of this year, Microsoft has been a member of the COVID-19 HPC Consortium formed between government agencies, universities, and the private sector, to provide HPC resources to...