Microsoft Azure Blob Storage offers secure object storage for cloud-native workloads, archives, data lakes, high-performance computing, and machine learning. Optimized for storing large amounts of unstructured data, organizations across all sectors use Microsoft Azure Blob Storage as a critical repository for sensitive business information, personal data, compliance records, and data that feeds AI training models.
The key benefits of the new services for Microsoft Azure Blob Storage include:
- Autonomously classify and contextualize all Microsoft Azure Blob Storage data without the source data leaving the customer's environment.
- Assess the security posture of sensitive data against the company's security policies and data requirements.
- Continuously monitor sensitive data within Microsoft Azure Blob Storage for risky user activities and provide early warnings for emerging threats.
- Identify and clean up redundant Microsoft Azure Blob data to reduce cloud costs.
- Support for storing backup data in Microsoft Azure Blob Storage Cool and Cold tiers to lower total ownership costs.
- Quickly restore the most recent clean version.
"The rise of generative AI and large language models is producing an explosion of data that needs to be secured," says Aung Oo, General Manager at Microsoft Azure Storage. "Protecting that deluge of essential AI data at scale in cloud storage platforms like Azure Blob Storage requires a cyber resiliency solution specifically designed for this task. Rubrik provides exactly that solution."
Read the full English press release here.
