Analyzing traditional data practices

In this section, we will review services that belong to the traditional data world. Our purpose is to reassure you that what we can do on-premises can also be done the same way in the cloud. Moving data workloads to the cloud does not necessarily mean that you have to completely reinvent yourself and your way of working.

Let's first clarify that we do not use the term traditional in a pejorative (nor negative) way. In many situations and for many enterprises, using traditional techniques still provides full satisfaction, and you should not necessarily move to more modern technologies just for the sake of it. (Our point has been made!) Figure 6.2 displays our zoom-in on traditional data practices:

Figure 6.2 – Traditional data practices in Azure

The TRADITIONAL node regroups all traditional practices that we've typically used for decades, for which Azure also has a bunch of services that we will discuss...