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Some of the new Azure features that will be announced next week at Microsoft Ignite have been appearing in the Azure Portal in the last few weeks, and some have already been announced online. This post will look at some of the Azure storage news we know in advance of the humongous conference.
Microsoft has been looking at how to improve the user experience in the Azure Portal since the first day that it was launched. It looks like the “blade” approach is coming to an end. Blades have been the buts of many a joke since the Azure Portal was launched in preview as Codename Ibiza – some wondered if every Azure operator should get an 84” Surface Hub to offer the acres of screen space that were required in the early days. Things did improve quite a bit, but Microsoft still had empirical data to show that improvements were needed.
The first sign I had of this in the Azure Portal was the new tabbed UI for Application Security Groups – a way to group NICs for Network Security Group firewall rules. Briefly last week, some saw a glimpse of the new tabbed experience for Azure VMs before it was withdrawn – but it is back again. And this UI is also available for creating storage accounts.
The tabbed UI for creating a new Azure storage account [Image Credit: Aidan Finn]
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Some industries have a need to retain data in a write-once read-many (WORM) format. This kind of storage can end up with huge capacities of data. That would make you think that cloud storage, block blob storage to be specific would be suitable:
I previously discussed the Azure WORM storage option when it was in preview and you can read the “how to” there. The main things to know is that immutable storage for blobs requires :
I suspected that managed disks, which were in a preview limited to the North Europe region, would either go into a more widely available preview or general availability at Ignite. I’ve been playing in the Azure Portal today and just noticed that the Create Managed Disk blade doesn’t say (Preview) after Standard SSD.
Creating a new Standard SSD in East US in Azure [Image Credit: Aidan Finn]
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