Year: 2022
Authorization – Exploring Storage Solutions
The next layer of protection ensures the person or application trying to access the data is authorized to. There are several different mechanisms in which to achieve this. RBAC Using RBAC, we can ensure a user or other type of identity (such as a managed identity or service principal) is authorized to perform a task …
Designing storage security – Exploring Storage Solutions
Protecting your data is a crucial consideration with any storage mechanism. Luckily, security is at the heart of Azure components, and storage solutions implement various protection levels by default. We will take a look at the different security options for Cosmos DB and Azure SQL in Chapter 12, Creating Saleable and Secure Databases. In this …
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VM disks – Exploring Storage Solutions
Windows and Linux servers must have at least one hard disk drive to store the operating system on and, sometimes, you might also need separate data disks. When virtualization was introduced, those disks also become virtual but were stored on physical drives as disk image files used by the Hypervisor. In the case of Windows …
Logging systems – Exploring Storage Solutions
Many applications and systems emit logging information that can be used for performance or diagnostics analysis. This type of data is typically a combination of structured and semi-structured data – but not always. This log data can be sent out in many different ways and from numerous sources, such as applications, VM operating systems, and …
Operational decisions – Exploring Storage Solutions
As we have discussed already, for each data type, there are also other factors that will determine which storage mechanism we choose. We need to think about how we will receive the data, how we will interact with the data, and how we will present it back to the user. User-interactive applications If data will …
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Data classification – Exploring Storage Solutions
The first question you need to ask when choosing a storage technology is what kind of data you are storing? In other words, we need to classify our data. Typically, data could be classified as one of the following types. Structured data Structured data is data that follows a strict definition or schema. Typically, this …
Data protection – Exploring Storage Solutions
Storage accounts offer several services to help you protect your data from accidental deletion or updates – these include the following: Important note At the time of writing, both soft delete and versioning are not available with Data Lake Gen 2 when using hierarchical namespaces. Both of these options cost more as you are effectively …
Understanding storage types – Exploring Storage Solutions-2
We have already mentioned that the GPv1 and GPv2 support file shares, so it is useful to take note of some of the main differences: Important note You might be expecting the sizes in GB, TB, or PB (that is, gigabyte, terabyte, or petabyte); however, these tables show TiB, GiB, and PiB (that is, gibibyte, …
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