4 Introduction to Azure Storage

We can be certain of one thing in the IT world: when things go wrong, storage and networking are inevitably to blame. I say this as someone who wore 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 I explore Azure Storage and Azure Networking. You may tempted to brush over these services to get to the cool stuff in the later chapters, but there’s a lot of value in spending some time exploring and learning these core services. It won’t ...

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