Microsoft’s new customer-managed planned failover for Azure Storage enhances disaster recovery by enabling geo-redundancy without data loss or reconfiguration.

Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer is a free tool that helps you conveniently manage your Azure cloud storage resources from your desktop.

Once you’ve created an account from the Azure Portal or the Azure command-line interface, you’re ready to provision blob storage. Azure uses a hierarchical model to manage blobs.

In his section we will explore how we can setup an Azure file share using the Azure portal. To create a storage account, follow these steps.