Recommended: Azure Storage supports HTTP and HTTPS; however, using HTTPS is highly recommended. Optional: During shipping, physical media may need to cross international borders. You are responsible for ensuring that your physical media and data are imported and exported in accordance with the applicable laws. Before shipping the physical media, check with your advisors to verify that your media and data legally can be shipped to the identified datacenter. This helps ensure that it reaches Microsoft in a timely manner. Design Guidance When you design storage management, consider the following: Capability Capability Decision Points Capability Models in Considerations Use There is a need to When moving data into Azure Storage (aside from IaaS Suitability is something determine whether VHD files), it is important to examine and determine the that is unique to every it is appropriate to suitability of placing that data into Azure. There are customer. It is important store the data in three primary factors to examine to determine if data to first understand the Azure Storage. should move to Azure Storage: data privacy laws that may apply to the Access frequency – How often is the data is customer’s country, accessed? Data that is accessed on a frequent or industry, and any regular basis may not be a good candidate to store regulatory bodies that in the cloud. Data that is accessed less frequently, may govern it. such as archive data, is better suited for the cloud. From there, begin to Active data vs. passive data – How much data understand the latency is tolerable? When data that is stored in the sensitivity of the data cloud needs to be accessed, additional latency that may be stored. should be expected when reading or writing that Then look at the data. Applications or services that cannot handle technical aspects of latency should not store its data in the cloud. For access frequency and example, do not install a SQL Server on-premises active vs. passive data. and store its databases in cloud storage. It doesn’t make sense to Privacy requirements –What kind of data is look at the technical permitted in cloud services for your organization? aspects of the data Based on what country, industry, and customer you
Recommended: Azure Storage supports HTTP and HTTPS; however, using HTTPS is highly recommended. Optional: During shipping, physical media may need to cross international borders. You are responsible for ensuring that your physical media and data are imported and exported in accordance with the applicable laws. Before shipping the physical media, check with your advisors to verify that your media and data legally can be shipped to the identified datacenter. This helps ensure that it reaches Microsoft in a timely manner. Design Guidance When you design storage management, consider the following: Capability Considerations Capability Decision Points Capability Models in Use There is a need to determine whether it is appropriate to store the data in Azure Storage. When moving data into Azure Storage (aside from IaaS VHD files), it is important to examine and determine the suitability of placing that data into Azure. There are three primary factors to examine to determine if data should move to Azure Storage: Access frequency – How often is the data is accessed? Data that is accessed on a frequent or regular basis may not be a good candidate to store in the cloud. Data that is accessed less frequently, such as archive data, is better suited for the cloud. Active data vs. passive data – How much data latency is tolerable? When data that is stored in the cloud needs to be accessed, additional latency should be expected when reading or writing that data. Applications or services that cannot handle latency should not store its data in the cloud. For example, do not install a SQL Server on-premises and store its databases in cloud storage. Privacy requirements –What kind of data is permitted in cloud services for your organization? Based on what country, industry, and customer you Suitability is something that is unique to every customer. It is important to first understand the data privacy laws that may apply to the customer’s country, industry, and any regulatory bodies that may govern it. From there, begin to understand the sensitivity of the data that may be stored. Then look at the technical aspects of access frequency and active vs. passive data. It doesn’t make sense to look at the technical aspects of the data
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