Exam Ref 70-534 Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions

Chapter 3. Design an application storage and data access strategy

Data is a huge business today. The amount of data collected and used at present is astonishing. Walmart handles over 1 million transactions per hour, which are all stored in databases. More than 5 billion people are calling, texting, tweeting, and browsing on mobile phones worldwide. Facebook has 100 TB of data uploaded daily. Today, there is a projected 40 percent yearly growth in data generated globally, whereas corporate spending on IT is only growing at 5 percent per year. (You can find this data and more Big-Data statistics at http://wikibon.org/blog/big-data-statistics/.) Companies are looking for better and faster ways to store, analyze, and protect all of this information. ...