Microsoft Geo-Redundant Storage Backup Standard IO Block Blob/GBC Account
This Microsoft platform license unlocks geo-redundant storage capabilities for your backup and blob storage accounts, ensuring data resilience and availability.
- Access to: Geo-redundant storage for enhanced data durability and disaster recovery.
- Coverage for: Critical backup and blob storage data, safeguarding against regional outages.
- Protection against: Data loss due to hardware failures or natural disasters impacting a single data center.
- Entitlement to: Maintain business continuity and meet regulatory compliance for data residency.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Microsoft platform license provides the entitlement for geo-redundant storage (GRS) for Azure Storage accounts, specifically for Standard IO block blobs and general-purpose v1/v2 accounts. It ensures that your data is asynchronously replicated to a secondary region, offering a high degree of durability and availability.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies utilize this licensing to protect critical business data, including backups and application data stored in blob storage. It fits into their Azure environment by enabling a robust data protection strategy without requiring complex manual configurations.
- Geo-Redundant Storage: Data is replicated to a secondary geographic region for disaster recovery.
- High Durability: Protects against regional outages and ensures data availability.
- Compliance Enablement: Helps meet regulatory requirements for data residency and business continuity.
- Cost-Effective Resilience: Provides enterprise-grade data protection at a predictable subscription cost.
- Simplified Management: Integrates directly with Azure Storage account configurations.
This Microsoft license is ideal for SMB and mid-market organizations seeking to enhance their data resilience and ensure business continuity through geo-redundant storage.
What This Enables
Enable resilient backup data storage
Enable teams to ensure their critical backup data is automatically replicated to a secondary geographic region. This safeguards against data loss in the event of a regional outage, ensuring recovery capabilities are always available.
cloud-native applications, hybrid cloud environments, disaster recovery planning
Streamline data protection for compliance
Streamline the process of meeting regulatory requirements for data residency and disaster recovery. Geo-redundant storage provides an out-of-the-box solution for data durability that satisfies many compliance mandates.
regulated industries, data sovereignty requirements, business continuity planning
Automate high availability for blob storage
Automate the replication of critical application data stored in blob storage to a secondary region. This ensures high availability and accessibility of essential business information, even during unforeseen regional events.
SaaS applications, content delivery networks, data archiving solutions
Key Features
Asynchronous replication to a secondary region
Ensures data is available in a separate geographic location, protecting against regional disasters and providing a robust disaster recovery solution.
Standard IO performance tier
Provides a cost-effective balance of performance and durability for block blob storage, suitable for a wide range of backup and application data.
General-purpose v1/v2 account compatibility
Supports a broad range of existing Azure Storage accounts, allowing for easy integration and upgrade of data protection strategies.
Subscription-based billing
Offers predictable operational expenses for data resilience, allowing for better budget management compared to upfront hardware investments.
Azure platform integration
Seamlessly managed within the Azure portal, simplifying configuration and monitoring of data replication and availability.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust data protection and disaster recovery capabilities to meet strict regulatory compliance standards like SOX and GDPR, ensuring continuous operation and data integrity.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must comply with HIPAA regulations, which mandate strong data security, availability, and disaster recovery measures to protect sensitive patient information.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers rely on uninterrupted operations and data availability for production planning, supply chain management, and compliance with industry-specific safety and operational standards.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle highly confidential client data and require continuous access and protection to meet client service level agreements and maintain business operations.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is geo-redundant storage (GRS)?
Geo-redundant storage (GRS) is a feature of Azure Storage that provides the highest level of durability by asynchronously replicating data to a secondary region hundreds of miles away from the primary region. This ensures your data is protected against regional outages.
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 availability zones 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 data in the secondary region.
Does this license include read access to the secondary region?
This specific license, Microsoft GEOREDSTRGBCKPSTDIOBLCKBLB/GBCACNTL, enables geo-redundant storage. For read access to the secondary region, you would typically look for a Read-Access Geo-Redundant Storage (RA-GRS) option, which may be a separate or enhanced licensing configuration.
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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