http://sqlblog.com/blogs/buck_woody/archive/2011/12/13/windows-azure-storage-was-internals-achieving-consistency.aspxWindows Azure Storage has three primary components - a Queue, a Binary Large Object (BLOB) store (two types of these), and Table Storage. Storage of data on-premises is fairly well understood - but there components of it that you may not consider. WhenenCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.1)