Hands-On Industrial Internet of Things

Setting up Data Lake Storage

The Azure Data Lake Storage is a highly scalable repository with which to store data for later analysis or visualization. We will use Data Lake Storage Gen1 to store the results of our stream analytics, which we will look at in more detail in the Stream Analytics section.

To prepare our data lake repository, we can search for Data Lake Storage Gen1 and click on Create a data lake storage gen1. In the pop-up window, we need to provide a name, such as iootbook, select the resource group created in the previous section, and click on the Create button, as shown in the following screenshot:

Creating the Azure data ...