No matter how many hybrid IT strategies there are in the world today, most of the enterprises engaged in data on premises and look towards the public cloud as an effective way of their backups.
With the growth of data in critical enterprise, their full backups are reaching the terabyte scale. As the amount of data increases, so does the time it takes to back it up over the network may be weeks or even months. Modern people are turning their attention to cost-effective methods that go beyond the use of fast networks.
Microsoft Azure “Data Box” has been able to solve the problem of backing up large scale of data to Azure by enabling the “Offline “. If you have 40 – 500 TB of data that you want to transfer from the server, then you would benefit from using “Data Box”.
How does it doing with easier process?
- Order the Data Box device via the azure portal.
- Through regional carrier, Microsoft ships you to device with usable capacity.
- Once the device is received, quickly set it up using the local web UI.
- Copy the data from servers to the device.
- Ship the device back to the azure.
Data is automatically uploaded from the device to azure.