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How to change the Tiering of Azure Blobs
Azure Cloud Storage offers three different storage tiers for storing data: hot, cool, and archive tiers. These Azure Storage tiers offer different levels of performance and cost efficiency. In this post we’ll show you how ...
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Azure Blob Storage vs Azure File Storage
Are you confused about which Azure Storage Service to use, for mapping a drive, or just dumping large amounts of data in to? This post goes indepth in to the differences between Azure Blob Storage ...
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How to create an Azure storage account
So you finally are ready to try out some of Azure’s most common and loved technologies.Well the cheap storage they provide is definitely one of them that we do. Whether you want to store your ...
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Achieving PCI DSS Compliance in the Cloud
In the current digital world, businesses should ensure that they protect cardholders’ data at all costs. As such, any business that stores, processes, or transmits cardholder data or any other sensitive information should comply with ...
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How Cloud Technology Can Help Your Business
How Cloud Technology Can Help Your Business Between 2019 and 2020, more Australian businesses have turned to cloud computing technologies. A recent survey from the Australian Bureau of Statistics found that businesses using paid cloud computing — ...
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How to search for an Azure Blob
How do you search for an Azure Blob, Storage Account or even a Container? While Azure provides massive storage capabilities, often users and IT Departments alike use Azure Storage for dumping large amounts of files ...
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How to find duplicate BLOBs in your Azure Storage Accounts
Reduce your Azure Storage Costs Azure Storage is like an all you can eat buffet, except the more you eat, the more you pay! This has provided organisations an almost limitless supply of storage, and ...
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How to see all your Azure VM Snapshots
Snapshot an Azure VM Snapshots in Azure is a nice feature that allows you to take a read-only, “point in time” snapshot of a Virtual Machine’s disk. You can take a snapshot of a VM’s ...
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How to get the size of all your Azure Storage Accounts
Do you really ever know how much Azure Storage you are consuming or how many Azure Storage Blobs you have in each of your Storage Accounts? Azure Blob Storage is an online cloud service for ...
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How to Minimise your Azure Blob Storage Costs
We all know that while Microsoft provides an almost seemingly infinite amount of storage. Compare this to your normal datacentre virtual infrastructure, you often need to do some capacity planning for expected Virtual Machine Compute ...
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