Chapter 4. Introduction to Azure Storage

There are two things in the IT world that we can be certain of: when things go wrong, storage and networking are inevitably to blame. I say this as someone who’s worn the hat of a SAN admin in one of my past lives! I was best friends with the networking team. I’m mostly joking (about being best friends), but it doesn’t matter how well an application is designed and written: the foundational infrastructure pieces must be in place to support it. Bear with me in the next couple of chapters as we explore Azure Storage and Azure Networking. These services may be things that you’re tempted to brush over and get to the cool stuff in the later chapters, but there’s a lot of value in spending some time exploring ...

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