How does Windows Azure provide scalable, durable cloud storage, backup, and recovery solutions for any data, big and small. Can Windows Azure work with the infrastructure you already on premise to cost-effectively enhance your business continuity strategy as well as provide storage required by your cloud applications including unstructured text or binary data such as video, audio and images?
6. Microsoft Azure
Public cloud
New scenarios: hybrid cloud, cloud based data backups, SQL server continuity
7. Storage
Local storage can be allocated on an instance bases
All Web and Worker roles are stateless so local storage should only be used for caching
Persistent storage is managed through
BLOBs
NTFS VHD drive can be stored in blobs and attached to instances
File data, can be documents, backup, video, …
Tables
Large amounts of structured datasets = NoSQL datastore
TBs of data to serve web applications
Queues
reliable messaging for workflow processing and for communication between components of cloud services
Pass messages between a web role (IIS) and worker role
8. Storage access
Blobs, tables and queues are accessible via URLs
All Windows Azure storage can be accessed from anywhere
Private Access Keys
10. Replication for Durability and HA
Highly durable and scalable
Multiple copies of your data
Financially backed SLAs
Storage for objects, tables, drives
Supports REST APIs
12. Backup/Recovery
SQL Server Management Studio
Reliable off-site data backup
for SQL images
Easily restore databases
using VMs
Benefits
Direct URL backup
to Azure Storage
Restore in Azure
Virtual Machine
Backup and restore database
to the cloud
13. Backup/Recovery
Backup datacenter data to Windows using
System Center Data Protection Manager
Backup and recover files/folders from
Windows Server 2012 SP1 and up
Benefits
Reliable offsite data protection
Simple, familiar, integrated
Efficient backup and recovery
Easy set up
Your On-Premises Datacenter
14. Backup/Recovery
Replication of private cloud assets by
Windows 2012 Hyper-V Replica and
Hyper-V Recovery Manager and System
Center Virtual Machine Manager
Benefits
Reliable offsite data protection
Simple, familiar, integrated
Easy set up
Your On-Premises Datacenter
15. Simple and fast on-ramp to Azure
Active data instantly available locally
Archives less used data to Windows Azure
Recover data from any internet connection
Reduce enterprise storage TCO by 60-80%