Moving large quantity of data to Azure

I had an interesting project lately that I would love to share some experience from. My client had a large amount of data that needed to be moved to Azure and the bandwidth wasn’t sufficient since it would take weeks and weeks before the data was transferred. So how could we move a larger amount (more than 50 TB) of data to Azure? The answer was Azure Data Box!

Microsoft provides a great service that lets you move data from your on-premises environment to an Azure Storage account using Azure Data Box. It comes in three versions:

• Data Box
• Data Box Disk
• Data Box Heavy

The technology behind the scenes are similar to the offline migration of data to an Azure RSV for DPM or Azure Backup Server.

More information regarding Azure Data Box is here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databox