Migrating Legacy SANs to Microsoft Cloud Azure Services

Grazed from SysCon Media. Author: Michael Krems.

Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, a growing collection of integrated services – analytics, computing, database, mobile, networking, storage, and web. In the 12 months since Build 2014, Microsoft has delivered over 500 new Azure services and features, and greatly expanded the footprint and capabilities of what Azure delivers. Here’s a snapshot of Azure Allure, articulated by Microsoft exec Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President of Cloud and Enterprise, at the Microsoft Build 2015 conference in San Francisco:

• 19 unique Azure regions up and running worldwide, with over 90,000 new Azure customer subscriptions per month
• 1.4 million SQL databases being used by applications hosted inside Asure
• About 160,000 SQL databases created or dropped each day in Azure
• Over 50 trillion objects stored in Azure Storage
• 425 million users in the Azure Active Directory system
• 3 million developers registered with Visual Studio Online services…

While Microsoft Cloud Azure Services is enticing to enterprises around the world, the fact is migrating legacy storage area networks (SANs), has traditionally not been an easy task…

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