Cloud Storage is a service that lets you store data to an offsite storage system maintained by a third party, namely the world-renowned and trusted Microsoft Azure platform.
Cloud Storage systems from Azure provide the flexibility to scale, are cost-effective and secure.
Benefits of Azure Storage
Azure Storage services offer the following benefits for IT professionals:
- Durable and highly available. Redundancy ensures that your data is safe in the event of transient hardware failures. You can also opt to replicate data across data centers or geographical regions for additional protection from local catastrophe or natural disaster. Data replicated in this way remains highly available in the event of an unexpected outage.
- Secure. All data written to an Azure storage account is encrypted by the service. Azure Storage provides you with fine-grained control over who has access to your data.
- Scalable. Azure Storage is designed to be massively scalable to meet the data storage and performance needs of today’s applications.
- Managed. Azure handles hardware maintenance, updates, and critical issues for you.
- Accessible. Data in Azure Storage is accessible from anywhere in the world over HTTP or HTTPS.
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