As an associate cloud engineer at Symbiont Solutions, I had firsthand experience with Azure storage services. We developed an end-to-end data management solution for a healthcare client which required storing, processing, and analyzing large volumes of patient data.
In this project, I played a pivotal role in implementing and managing Azure Blob Storage to store unstructured data and Azure Table Storage to store structured nosql data. I primarily used Azure Storage Explorer for managing and moving around the data. Our solution enabled the client to access the patient data with lower latency and higher throughput, contributing to significant cost savings and operational efficiency.
However, considerations had to be made for data redundancy and high availability, and we implemented Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) to protect the data from regional failures. The client was satisfied with the solution and we managed to overcome the initial interoperability challenges with their local systems.