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Brett Hargreaves
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Brett Hargreaves is a principal Azure consultant for Iridium Consulting, who has worked with some of the world's biggest companies, helping them design and build cutting-edge solutions. With a career spanning infrastructure, development, consulting, and architecture, he's been involved in projects covering the entire solution stack using Microsoft technologies. He loves passing on his knowledge to others through books, blogging, and his online training courses.
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One of the greatest benefits of using cloud services such as Azure is that it gives you the ability to create the necessary resources required without needing to invest large amounts of capital. The tools you can choose from cover end-to-end processes and are scaled in and out as needed.

One of the first decisions you may need to consider is where to initially store raw data. Except in the case of streaming analytics, whereby you continually ingest data from a source such as an IoT device (for example, a temperature sensor), you need a place to store and retrieve your data files from.

Azure storage accounts provide storage capabilities in the form of file storage or Blob storage; however, a specific type of account called an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS Gen2) account might be better suited to data analytics.

ADLS Gen2

ADLS is an optional configuration feature of a standard storage account. One of the key differences is that it supports filesystem...

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Published in: Jul 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800566934

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Brett Hargreaves

Brett Hargreaves is a principal Azure consultant for Iridium Consulting, who has worked with some of the world's biggest companies, helping them design and build cutting-edge solutions. With a career spanning infrastructure, development, consulting, and architecture, he's been involved in projects covering the entire solution stack using Microsoft technologies. He loves passing on his knowledge to others through books, blogging, and his online training courses.
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