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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 as we all know, the more that’s available, the more we’ll use.
Azure Storage has changed the way many organisations operate both in terms of availability and service. No longer do organisations have to concern themselves with capacity planning or worry about the SAN running out of disk space, or even how to make that storage available in terms of disaster and across regions. Azure Storage has effectively resolved many of the issues traditional on-premises storage services faced.
However, because of this unlimited supply of storage in Azure, storage growth, cost and duplication has exploded. Managing and controlling the data across all the Storage Accounts has become increasingly difficult as users keep piling on more and more data.
OK, so how can we gain some control back, by finding and reducing the number of duplicate BLOBs and therefore cost?
We have been asked that exact same question by many of our customers, and the short answer was, you couldn’t. There is no way in Azure to find out which BLOBs are duplicates, how many of them are duplicate BLOBs, which Azure Storage Account and container do they reside in, or how much data duplicate BLOBs in Azure Storage are consuming…until now.
Cloud Storage Manager allows you to scan your entire Azure environment in order to review and manage your Azure Storage consumption.
Cloud Storage Manager has so many features in helping you control and manage your Azure Storage, but I won’t go into them here as the list is too long – however, click here to get more information and even download a free trial for yourself.
One of the many features of Cloud Storage Manager is the reporting option, which offers a number of reports you could run to get a better understanding of your Azure Storage and overall environment.
You also have the option to export the report to a CSV file for further assessment.
If you want to get a better handle of your Azure Storage consumption and reduce your overall cost, give Cloud Storage Manager a try.
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