Microsoft Azure Geo-Redundant Page Blob/Disk Storage (GB)
Ensure continuous data availability and disaster recovery with Microsoft Azure's geo-redundant Standard IO Page Blob/Disk storage, protecting your critical business data across regions.
- Geo-Redundancy: Automatic data replication to a secondary region for enhanced disaster recovery and business continuity.
- Standard IO Performance: Reliable and consistent input/output operations per second suitable for most business workloads.
- Scalable Capacity: Pay-as-you-go model for storage capacity, measured in gigabytes, allowing you to scale as needed.
- Compliance Assurance: Meets regulatory requirements for data durability and availability through Microsoft's robust infrastructure.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering provides access to Microsoft Azure's geo-redundant storage for Page Blobs and Disks, utilizing Standard IO performance. It ensures your data is automatically replicated to a secondary geographic location, safeguarding against regional outages and providing a high level of durability and availability for your critical business information.
Designed for businesses of all sizes that rely on Azure for their IT infrastructure, this service is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals managing cloud-based applications, databases, and virtual machines. It integrates directly into your Azure environment, offering a foundational component for resilient and compliant cloud operations.
- Geo-Redundant Replication: Data is copied to a secondary Azure region, providing resilience against major disasters.
- Standard Performance Tier: Offers consistent and reliable performance for a wide range of applications and workloads.
- Pay-as-you-go Pricing: Storage is billed per gigabyte, allowing for cost-effective scaling based on actual usage.
- High Durability: Designed to protect against data loss with built-in redundancy mechanisms.
- Azure Platform Integration: Seamlessly integrates with other Azure services for a unified cloud experience.
Secure your critical business data with reliable, geo-redundant Azure storage, offering peace of mind and operational resilience for SMB and mid-market organizations.
What This Enables
Enable High Availability for Critical Applications
Enable teams to deploy applications that require continuous uptime and data accessibility. This ensures that essential business functions remain operational even if the primary Azure region experiences an outage.
cloud-native applications, microservices architectures, web applications, SaaS platforms
Ensure Disaster Recovery for Databases
Streamline disaster recovery planning by leveraging automatic data replication to a secondary region. This protects sensitive database information and minimizes recovery time objectives in the event of a catastrophic failure.
relational databases, NoSQL databases, data warehousing, business intelligence platforms
Maintain Compliance with Data Durability Standards
Automate adherence to regulatory requirements for data durability and availability. Geo-redundancy ensures data protection standards are met, reducing the risk of compliance violations and associated penalties.
regulated industries, data-intensive operations, audit-sensitive environments, global data presence
Key Features
Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS)
Provides high durability and availability by automatically replicating data to a secondary Azure region, protecting against regional disasters.
Standard IO Performance
Offers consistent and reliable performance suitable for a wide range of business applications and workloads.
Page Blob and Disk Support
Enables storage for Azure Virtual Machine disks and other I/O intensive workloads requiring low latency.
Scalable Capacity (GB)
Allows businesses to pay only for the storage they use, scaling capacity up or down as needed without upfront investment.
Microsoft Azure Infrastructure
Leverages Microsoft's global network of data centers for secure, reliable, and compliant data storage solutions.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high data durability and availability to meet strict regulatory compliance standards like SOX and PCI DSS, making geo-redundant storage essential for critical transaction data and customer information.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must comply with HIPAA regulations, which mandate robust data protection and availability for electronic health records (EHRs) and patient data, necessitating geo-redundant storage solutions.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers rely on continuous operation of production systems and supply chain management tools, where data loss or downtime can halt operations, making geo-redundant storage critical for business continuity.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services organizations handle sensitive client data and must ensure its availability and integrity to meet client obligations and maintain operational continuity, often under strict data protection mandates.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between LRS, ZRS, GRS, and RA-GRS?
Locally Redundant Storage (LRS) replicates data within a single data center. Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS) replicates data across multiple data centers within a region. Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) replicates data to a secondary region. Read-Access Geo-Redundant Storage (RA-GRS) allows read access to the secondary region's data.
How is geo-redundant storage billed?
Geo-redundant storage is billed based on the amount of data stored in gigabytes per month, plus potential charges for data transfer operations.
Can I access data in the secondary region if the primary region is unavailable?
With standard Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS), manual failover is required to access data in the secondary region. Read-Access Geo-Redundant Storage (RA-GRS) allows read access to the secondary region's data at any time.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Low — self-service
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
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