Azure Premium Storage

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Post by prakashc » Thu, Apr 16, 2015, 5:56 PM UTC

Azure Premium Storage
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Re: Azure Premium Storage

#2

Post by vosper » Thu, Apr 16, 2015, 7:55 PM UTC

This is cool (and, really, required at this point to be competitive) but why can't they use a self-explanatory name?

Amazon calls their SSD-backed volumes "General Purpose (SSD)" and "Provisioned IOPS (SSD)" which explain themselves. Azure Premium Storage could mean anything (and when it's the norm in a couple of years, what will they call it then?)

Re: Azure Premium Storage

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 16, 2015, 8:16 PM UTC

vosper wrote: post #2

This is cool (and, really, required at this point to be competitive) but why can't they use a self-explanatory name? Amazon calls their SSD-backed volumes "General Purpose (SSD)" and "Provisioned IOPS (SSD)" which explain themselves. Azure Premium Storage could mean anything (and when it's the norm in a couple of years, what will they call it then?)

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Re: Azure Premium Storage

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Post by kobybecker » Thu, Apr 16, 2015, 11:55 PM UTC

vosper wrote: post #2

This is cool (and, really, required at this point to be competitive) but why can't they use a self-explanatory name? Amazon calls their SSD-backed volumes "General Purpose (SSD)" and "Provisioned IOPS (SSD)" which explain themselves. Azure Premium Storage could mean anything (and when it's the norm in a couple of years, what will they call it then?)

Super Premium :-) I think the way we think about it here is: Azure "Premium" Storage as opposed to the regular Storage offering we have. Having said that, our naming could have indeed been better.

Disclaimer: msft engineer with Azure Storage