{"id":10457,"date":"2018-09-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/threecloud.wpengine.com\/post\/what-is-azure-data-box-and-data-box-disk\/"},"modified":"2022-11-30T09:12:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T15:12:04","slug":"what-is-azure-data-box-and-data-box-disk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/resources\/what-is-azure-data-box-and-data-box-disk\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Azure Data Box and Data Box Disk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking to move large amounts of data into Azure?\u00a0 Today I\u2019m here to tell you how to do that with the Azure Data Box. <\/p>\n<p>Picture this: you have a ton of data, let\u2019s say 50 terabytes on-prem, and you need to get that into Azure because you\u2019re going to start doing incremental back ups of a SQL Database, for instance. You have two options to get this done.<\/p>\n<p>First option is to move that data manually. Which means you have to chunk it, set it up using AZ copy or a similar Azure data tool, put it up in a blob storage, then extract it and continue with the process. Sounds pretty painful, right?<\/p>\n<p>Your second option is to use Azure Data Box which allows you to move large chunks of data up into Azure. Here\u2019s how simple it is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You order the Data Box through Azure (currently available in the US and EU)<\/li>\n<li>Once received, you connect it to your environment however you plan to move that data<\/li>\n<li>It uses standard protocols like SMB and CIFS<\/li>\n<li>You copy the data you want to move and return the Data Box back to Azure and then they will upload the data into your storage container(s)<\/li>\n<li>Once the data is uploaded, they will securely erase that Data Box<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With the Data Box you get:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>256-bit encryption<\/li>\n<li>A super tough, hardened box that can withstand drops or water, etc.<\/li>\n<li>It can be pushed into Azure Blob<\/li>\n<li>You can copy data up to 10 storage accounts<\/li>\n<li>There are two 1 gigabit\/second and two 10 gigabit\/second connections to allow quick movement of data off your network onto the box<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, Microsoft has recently announced the Data Box Disk, which is a small 8 terabyte disk that you can order up to five of as part of the Data Box Disk. With Data Box Disc you get:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>35 terabytes of usable capacity per order<\/li>\n<li>Supports Azure Blobs<\/li>\n<li>A USB SATA 2 and 3 interface<\/li>\n<li>Uses 128-bit encryption<\/li>\n<li>Like Data Box, it\u2019s a simple process to connect it, unlock it, copy the data onto the disk and it send it back to copy those into a single storage account for you<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MiL1WTPTV9M\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Definitely worth checking out. We are here to help you with any of this or with any questions you have, whether it be about this service or anything Azure related.<\/p>\n<p>Need further help? Our expert team and solution offerings can help your business with any Azure product or service, including Managed Services offerings. Contact us at 888-8AZURE or\u00a0 <a href=\"mailto:sales@3cloudsolutions.com\">sales@3cloudsolutions.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking to move large amounts of data into Azure?\u00a0 Today I\u2019m here to&mldr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":9459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data-ai","topics-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}