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Dr. Logan Song
Dr. Logan Song
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Dr. Logan Song

Dr. Logan Song is the enterprise cloud director and chief cloud architect at Dito. With 25+ years of professional experience, Dr. Song is highly skilled in enterprise information technologies, specializing in cloud computing and machine learning. He is a Google Cloud-certified professional solution architect and machine learning engineer, an AWS-certified professional solution architect and machine learning specialist, and a Microsoft-certified Azure solution architect expert. Dr. Song holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, an MS in computer science, and an ME in management engineering. Currently, he is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, teaching cloud computing and machine learning courses.
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Azure cloud data storage

During the launch of Azure Cloud Shell in the previous chapter, you may have noticed that we created an Azure storage account before the Azure Cloud Shell launch. An Azure storage account provides unique storage space for your Azure cloud data, accessible from anywhere in the world over HTTP or HTTPS. When an Azure storage account is created, the following Azure storage data objects are created: blobs, files, queues, and tables, in an all-in-one fashion:

  • Azure blobs are blob storage, which is an object storage like AWS S3 or Google GCS
  • Azure files permit you to manage file-sharing in the cloud – shareable to Azure VMs and on-prem VMs
  • Azure queue storage is a cloud service similar to AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS),for storing large numbers of messages
  • Azure table storage stores structured NoSQL cloud data, with a key/attribute store and a schema-less design

An Azure storage account provides all these storage and data services...

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Dr. Logan Song

Dr. Logan Song is the enterprise cloud director and chief cloud architect at Dito. With 25+ years of professional experience, Dr. Song is highly skilled in enterprise information technologies, specializing in cloud computing and machine learning. He is a Google Cloud-certified professional solution architect and machine learning engineer, an AWS-certified professional solution architect and machine learning specialist, and a Microsoft-certified Azure solution architect expert. Dr. Song holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, an MS in computer science, and an ME in management engineering. Currently, he is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, teaching cloud computing and machine learning courses.
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