Practical Azure #3: The Case for Windows Azure Drives

In part three of my continuing series, I cover Windows Azure Drives, an abstraction of Windows Azure Blob storage designed to provide a durable layer of storage with the same file I/O semantics of a local drive.

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Windows Azure Training Kit

 

Blob Service Concepts

Understanding Block Blobs and Page Blobs

Windows Azure Drives White Paper