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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, Mva

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, Mva

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,...

Latest Content

Date	Title
1/11/2019	1/11/2019 Renaming an Azure Windows VM (Managed Disks) In Azure, the renaming of resources (such as a VM) isn’t allowed. That is, you can rename the OS/FQDN name of the VM at any time, but the display name in Azure is locked in at creation time. If...
12/27/2018	12/27/2018 Using Snowflake on Azure for Querying Azure Event Hubs Capture Avro Files In this video, we look at how to use Snowflake on Azure to query Avro files generated by Azure Event Hubs Capture feature. In our example, we'll create Azure Blob Storage account and configure...
12/12/2018	12/12/2018 Static websites on Azure Storage now generally available Microsoft Azure Blog We are excited to announce the general availability of Static Websites on Azure Storage. The feature is now available in all public cloud regions as well as in government and sovereign clouds.
11/29/2018	11/29/2018 Premium Block Blob Storage - a new level of performance Microsoft Azure Blog Premium Blob Storage, which is currently in limited public preview, unlocks a new level of performance in public cloud object storage. It uses a combination of solid-state drives in our storage...
11/14/2018	11/14/2018 Azure Event Grid, Event Domains are in preview Service Updates Event Grid customers can now become their own event publishers using the preview of Event Domains. This offers the same technology that first-party services in Azure (such as Blob Storage) are...
11/6/2018	11/6/2018 Premium blob storage James Serra's Blog As a follow-up to my blog Azure Archive Blob Storage, Microsoft has released another storage tier called Azure Premium Blob Storage (announcement). It is in private preview in US East 2, US...
11/2/2018	11/2/2018 “Cannot OPEN BACKUP device” error seen when backing up Azure SQL Managed Instance to Azure Blob Storage “Cannot OPEN BACKUP device” error seen when backing up Azure SQL Managed Instance to Azure Blob Storage. We have been seeing a trend in customer support cases with the following error When...
11/2/2018	11/2/2018 Azure Functions – Blob Storage The labs contained in this article show how to create, configure, code and monitor an Azure Function with a Blob Trigger. There is a detailed document here “Azure Blob storage bindings for Azure...
10/31/2018	10/31/2018 Serverless compute architectures with Azure Blob Storage - BRK3381 YT: Ignite [0:36:00] Serverless computing architectures are increasingly prevalent in the cloud for scale, flexibility, and cost efficiency. A core building block of these architectures is a data persistence and...
10/30/2018	10/30/2018 Whats New in Azure Managed Disks Tuesdays with Corey [0:05:58] Corey Sanders, Corporate VP - Microsoft Azure Compute team sat down with Kay Singh, Senior PM on the Azure compute team to talk about Managed Disks in Azure! We're talkin' swapping the OS image,...
10/29/2018	10/29/2018 Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2: Enhancing big data analytics on Azure - BRK3326 YT: Ignite [1:03:15] Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen 2 is a single data lake store that combines the performance and innovation of ADLS with the scale and rich feature set of Azure Blob Storage. It provides a...
10/29/2018	10/29/2018 Optimizing your workload performance with Azure Managed Disks - BRK3299 YT: Ignite [1:07:48] Azure Disks offer persistent, highly-scalable block storage that power Azure VMs. We are introducing new offerings to augment our Azure Disk portfolio for you to meet your application...

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Web Content

Azure Storage Documentation

1. Overview
     1.1. Introduction
     1.2. Choose Blobs, Files, or Disks
2. Blobs
3. Data Lake Storage Gen2
4. Files
5. Queues
6. Tables
7. Disks
     7.1. Windows
     7.2. Linux

Web Pages

Content	Type
Parallel Virtual File Systems on Microsoft Azure	Ebook
Azure Virtual Datacenter: Lift and Shift Guide	Whitepaper
Interact with Azure Table Storage via Rest API with PowerShell	Sample
Azure TCO Calculator	Webpage
High Availability Checklist	Webpage
Build 2016 Workshops: Azure Data Services	Lab
Rethinking Enterprise Storage: A Hybrid Cloud Model	Ebook
Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer	Website
Azure Storage Homepage	Webpage
Building Cloud Apps with Microsoft Azure	Ebook
Protecting Data in Microsoft Azure	Whitepaper

Online Training Content

Date	Title
11/16/2017	Understanding and Using Azure Storage 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 organization spends. This course, Understanding and Using Azure Storage, is the vehicle to get you there. First, you'll get an introduction to storage fundamentals and a...
11/16/2017	Planning and Designing Microsoft Azure Storage Solutions 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 organization spends. This course, Understanding and Using Azure Storage, is the vehicle to get you there. First, you'll get an introduction to storage fundamentals and a...
2/25/2017	Microsoft Azure for IT Pros Content Series: Storage If you’re an IT Pro interested in Microsoft Azure Storage, be sure to join MVP Corey Hynes for the fifth in a series of Azure for IT Pros courses. Learn what Azure Storage is, how we think about it, and how we plan it—whether running virtual machines, storing data, or supporting different applications. Explore the basics of how Azure Storage works,...
2/24/2017	Pluralsight: Managing Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure - Getting Started This course, Managing Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure - Getting Started, equips the new Azure administrator with the skills needed to be successful deploying infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) applications and services. First, you'll learn to deploy Azure virtual machines (VMs) by using the Azure Portal, Windows PowerShell, and the Azure...
1/16/2017	Azure Developer Workshop (Storage, Cognitive, ML, Stream Analytics, Containers, and Docker) Looking for a practical, hands-on introduction to Microsoft Azure for developers? This is your course! Watch expert hosts Susan Ibach, of Microsoft, and Jeff Prosise, from Wintellect, and get the details you need on Azure Storage, Azure Stream Analytics, Cognitive Services, Machine Learning, containers, Docker, and much more. Get an introduction to...
9/30/2016	Microsoft Azure for IT Pros Content Series: Introduction to Microsoft Azure Want to know the basics of Microsoft Azure? Join MVP Corey Hynes as he delivers the first in a series of courses designed to teach you all about Azure. Explore foundational concepts in this Azure training. Learn why Azure exists and what problems it solves for startups and for Fortune 500 companies. Plus, take a look at other high-level conceptual...
2/16/2016	Data Storage and Processing in the Cloud Demystified If you’d like insight into data storage and processing in the cloud, be sure to check out this helpful cloud training course. Get a look at the Microsoft storage strategy, starting with on-premises storage and the company's investments in server storage. Explore hybrid cloud storage, and then dive i
12/11/2015	Deliver Scalable, Software-Defined Storage Anywhere Learn how to simplify your storage, lower your TCO, and scale on demand with the latest high-performance storage investments in Microsoft Azure Stack Software-Defined Storage (on-premises), StorSimple (hybrid), and Azure Storage (cloud). See how cloud scale, cost, and ease of integration inflection
3/7/2015	Microsoft Azure Fundamentals: Storage and Data Continuing your journey to the cloud with the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals series? Join the ever-popular Bob Tabor of LearnVisualStudio.net, in the third installment, as he explores cloud storage and data, specifically the various ways you can store structured, semi-structured, and schema-free data
1/20/2015	Hybrid Cloud Workloads: Storage and Backup As you may know, Microsoft is becoming a "devices & services" company. And devices can mean more than phones, tablets, and consumer services. They can also be data center infrastructure products. The same way that client/server architectures reshaped enterprise computing in the '90s, d

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Tools

Tool	Description	Author
Managing Blobs within an AzureRm Storage Account	Download all the Blobs from AzureRm Storage account for a specific date. You need to enter the date in "dd-mm-yyyy" format.The script is build on a Taxonomy.Storage account ->Contains Storage container -> Blob( Page Blob and Block Blob)	Clavin Fernandes
PowerShell to Setup Azure File Share	This article is about creating Azure File Share using PowerShell.
Azure Speed Tests	Webpage for testing various Azure services including Azure Storage, CDN, etc.
Azure Speed Test	Tool for testing latency of Blob Storage access. Results are shown for all Azure datacenters with a message indicating the nearest datacenter from user's current location.	Two10degrees
CloudXplorer	A rich UI client for browsing Azure Blobs & Files.	ClumsyLeaf
Cloud Combine	Cloud Combine is IDE for cloud services that works in a way you expect. It supports Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS and Google Cloud as well as golden classics such as FTP.	Gapotchenko
Azure Management Studio	One tool to manage your Microsoft Azure cloud storage, diagnostics data and application workflows.	Cerebrata
Azure Feature Pack for Integration Services (SSIS)	SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Feature Pack for Azure for SQL Server 2016 is an extension that provides the following components for SSIS to connect to Azure, transfer data between Azure and on-premises data sources, and process data stored in Azure.	Microsoft
CloudMonix	CloudMonix enhances Microsoft Azure by providing deep monitoring of most of Azure's infrastructure via live dashboards, ability to self-heal from many different production issues, on-demand historical performance and uptime reports, customizable alerts & notifications, sophisticated auto-scaling engine, integration to third party systems, and a lot more.	Paraleap Technologies
Azure Explorer	A free storage tool for Microsoft Azure Storage. Among other features, it lets you manage all your Microsoft Azure blobs in one place, reliably upload and download blobs with a responsive UI, transfer blobs between your storage accounts, easily search and filter your blobs.	Red Gate Software Ltd.
Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer	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.	Microsoft
AzCopy	AzCopy is a Windows command-line utility designed for copying data to and from Microsoft Azure Blob, File, and Table storage using simple commands with optimal performance. You can copy data from one object to another within your storage account, or between storage accounts.	Microsoft

Videos

Date	Title	Length
10/31/2018	Serverless compute architectures with Azure Blob Storage - BRK3381 YT: Ignite Serverless computing architectures are increasingly prevalent in the cloud for scale, flexibility, and cost efficiency. A core building block of these architectures is a data persistence and messaging layer. In Azure, Blob Storage...	0:36:00
10/30/2018	Whats New in Azure Managed Disks Tuesdays with Corey Corey Sanders, Corporate VP - Microsoft Azure Compute team sat down with Kay Singh, Senior PM on the Azure compute team to talk about Managed Disks in Azure! We're talkin' swapping the OS image, enhanced disk metrics and moving disks...	0:05:58
10/29/2018	Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2: Enhancing big data analytics on Azure - BRK3326 YT: Ignite Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen 2 is a single data lake store that combines the performance and innovation of ADLS with the scale and rich feature set of Azure Blob Storage. It provides a Hadoop compatible file system interface for...	1:03:15
10/29/2018	Optimizing your workload performance with Azure Managed Disks - BRK3299 YT: Ignite Azure Disks offer persistent, highly-scalable block storage that power Azure VMs. We are introducing new offerings to augment our Azure Disk portfolio for you to meet your application requirements. Additionally, we bring critical...	1:07:48
10/26/2018	Design patterns and best practices for using Azure Blob Storage - BRK3373 YT: Ignite Azure Blob Storage is Microsoft's exabyte scale object storage platform built for the most demanding applications and workloads. In this session, we'll cover some design patterns and best practices for building high performance,...	1:17:24
10/25/2018	A deeper look at Azure Storage with a special focus on new capabilities - BRK2041 YT: Ignite What's changed in a year with Azure Storage? Quite a lot! Come see how new products like Blob Lifecycle Management Policies, Immutable Blob Storage, Azure AD Authentication for Storage, and our expanded Azure Disks portfolio support...	1:25:50
10/18/2018	Azure Blob Storage: Build secure scalable cloud applications - BRK3292 YT: Ignite A durable, scalable, and secure data infrastructure is a key piece of building, scaling, and securing your existing applications. Azure Blob Storage provides the object storage platform to build data intensive applications in the...	1:15:14
10/9/2018	Lessons in building a multi-exabyte data store: How Microsoft OneDrive leverages - BRK3382 YT: Ignite Blob Storage is Azure’s exabyte scale object storage platform built for your most demanding data workloads. In this session, we’ll use a fireside chat and Q&A format to interactively learn about how Azure powers the multi-exabyte...	0:45:06
10/2/2018	Running high performance workloads in Azure with Ultra SSDs the next-gen Azure - BRK2375 YT: Ignite Ultra SSD is the latest cutting-edge offering – part of the Azure Managed Disks portfolio. It is a new block store designed to provide industry leading sub-millisecond latency with extremely scalable throughput to enable...	1:06:50
10/2/2018	Serverless compute architectures with Azure Blob Storage - BRK3381 YT: Ignite Serverless computing architectures are increasingly prevalent in the cloud for scale, flexibility, and cost efficiency. A core building block of these architectures is a data persistence and messaging layer. In Azure, Blob Storage...	0:35:57

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