Windows Azure Learning Plan - Storage

BuckWoody — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:24:00 GMT

This is one in a series of posts on a Windows Azure Learning Plan. You can find the main post here. This one deals with Storage for Windows Azure.

Overview	Overview and general information about Windows Azure Storage - what it is, how it works, and where you can learn more.
General Overview Whitepaper (registration of a screen name, but free)	http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/understanding-data-storage-offerings
Official Microsoft Site on Azure Storage	http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee924681.aspx
Scalability Targets for Azure Storage	http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2010/05/10/windows-azure-storage-abstractions-and-their-scalability-targets.aspx
Understanding Azure Storage by using the API	http://blogs.msdn.com/b/paolos/archive/2011/02/21/yet-another-application-to-handle-windows-azure-storage-services.aspx
Blobs	Blob Storage is a binary-level "container" that can hold one or more streams of data.
Understanding Block Blobs and Page Blobs	http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee691964.aspx
Blob Service Concepts	http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd179376.aspx
Tables	Tables are key-value-pair type storage, and can be in the terabyte range of size.
Understanding the Table Storage Data Model	http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd179338.aspx
Table Service Concepts	http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd179463.aspx
Querying Tables and Entities	http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd894031.aspx
Queues	Queues are actually more table storage - but specifically designed to allow Web and Worker Roles to communicate.
Queue Service Concepts	http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd179353.aspx
Queue Service API	http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd179363.aspx
Azure Drive	An Azure Drive isn't something you mount over the web (although that's possible to do with a little code) - it's a "local" NTFS drive for Windows Azure Applications.
Windows Azure Drives white paper	http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9710117
Content Delivery Network	An "Edge" network of storage that buffers after the first use by a client.
General Overview	http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2009/11/05/introducing-the-windows-azure-content-delivery-network.aspx
Delivering High-Bandwidth Content with the Windows Azure CDN	http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee795176.aspx
Tools and Utilities	Free and not-free tools to work with Azure Storage.
Storage SDK	http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.windowsazure.storageclient.aspx
Benchmarks and Throughput tests	http://azurescope.cloudapp.net/BenchmarkTestCases/
Mount an Azure Drive as an NTFS Drive	http://azurescope.cloudapp.net/CodeSamples/cs/792ce345-256b-4230-a62f-903f79c63a67/
Command-line and other tools for working with Azure Storage	http://tinyurl.com/2acx6d8 and http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2010/04/17/windows-azure-storage-explorers.aspx

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Windows Azure Learning Plan - Storage