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OneLake Optimization: Storage Patterns and Best Practices
OneLake is central to Fabric's promise. My teams reorganised storage layouts and saw query performance improvements — these patterns capture what worked and…
Storage
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Configuring Custom Endpoints in Azure IoT Hub
Custom endpoints enable you to build flexible, scalable IoT data processing architectures tailored to your specific requirements.
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Azure HPC Cache: Accelerating High-Performance Computing Workloads
Azure HPC Cache bridges the gap between cloud compute and existing storage investments, enabling organizations to run HPC workloads in Azure while…
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Azure Storage Tiers: Optimizing Costs with Hot, Cool, and Archive
Azure Storage tiers provide a powerful mechanism for balancing performance and cost, enabling organizations to store massive amounts of data economically…
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Offline Data Transfer with Azure Data Box
Azure offers several Data Box options: Data Box Disk : Up to 40 TB per order (8 TB per disk) Data Box : 100 TB storage capacity Data Box Heavy : Up to 1 PB…
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Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 - Building Modern Data Lakes
ADLS Gen2 is the storage layer that most enterprise data platforms in Australia are converging on. The combination of blob-scale storage (petabytes, low…
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Azure Storage Account Security Best Practices
Storage accounts are deceptively easy to deploy and easy to misconfigure into a leak. Public blob containers are still the most common "how did this get…
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Azure NetApp Files: Enterprise File Storage
Azure NetApp Files: enterprise storage performance in the cloud.
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Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2: Foundation of Modern Data Platforms
Gen2 is the standard for new data lakes on Azure. ADLS Gen2 is the foundation. Build your data platform on solid ground.
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Synology NAS Series – Cloud Sync with Azure Storage
Synology reached out to me to give their new DiskStation DS920+ a review. If you're not yet aware of Synology, they are the leading NAS…
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Azure Blob Storage Lifecycle Management
Savings: $1,700/year for 1TB Set up lifecycle policies on day one. Future you will thank past you for the cost savings.
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Managing Data with Azure Blob Storage Lifecycle Policies
Storage bills creep. They never spike, they never alert, they just slowly become a line item somebody at finance asks about, and by then you've got several…