Windows Azure’s Flat Network Storage and 2012 Scalability Targets
Earlier this year, we deployed a flat network for Windows Azure across all of our datacenters to create Flat Network Storage (FNS) for Windows Azure Storage.
Windows Azure Storage – 4 Trillion Objects and Counting
Windows Azure Storage has had an amazing year of growth. We have over 4 trillion objects stored, process an average of 270,000 requests per second, and reach peaks of 880,000 requests per second.
Data Series: Exploring Windows Azure Drives, Disks, and Images
With the preview of Windows Azure Virtual Machines, we have two new special types of blobs stored in Windows Azure Storage: Windows Azure Virtual Machine Disks and Window Azure Virtual Machine Images.
Data Series: USENIX Best Paper Award – Erasure Coding in Windows Azure Storage
We just published a paper describing how we Erasure Code data in Windows Azure Storage that won a Best Paper Award at the June 2012 USENIX Annual Technical Conference.
Data Series: TechEd NA 2012 – New Windows Azure Storage Features, Improved Manageability, and Lower Prices
We are very excited to release multiple improvements to Windows Azure Storage.
Data Series: Introducing Locally Redundant Storage for Windows Azure Storage
We are excited to offer two types of redundant storage for Windows Azure: Locally Redundant Storage and Geo Redundant Storage.
Now Available: Geo-Replication and new Blob, Table and Queue features for Windows Azure Storage
During the BUILD Day two keynote, we announced the release of geo-replication and a new version of the REST API to enable functionality improvements for Windows Azure Blobs, Tables, and Queues.