Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage is an object storage service for storing large amounts of unstructured data in the cloud. Azure Blob Storage is a fundamental component for a multitude of workflow processing use cases. Being able to successfully manage these objects is essential for any automation success. This allows you to easily integrate the monitoring and management of this cloud storage with your existing enterprise workload automation as well as other cloud-native activity. You are instantly inheriting the advanced capabilities of your enterprise solution to deliver your digital transformation quicker and more successfully. By extending your existing enterprise automation to Azure Blob Storage you maintain end-to-end visibility, regain centralized command and control, alerting, SLA management, reporting and auditing.
Benefits and Use Cases
- Upload, download, copy, move, and delete blobs between containers to streamline storage operations.
- Monitor blob containers for changes to trigger downstream processes in real time.
- Automate retention, archival, and cleanup policies across environments.
- Centralize control and visibility of storage workflows.
Example Use Case: Automated Data Ingestion and Archival
Maximize operational efficiency and data hygiene with fully-automated data lifecycles, instantly triggering processing jobs when new files are detected in Azure and applying rule-based archival to delete stale blobs.
Automic Features
- Monitor Azure Blob objects for create, update or for existence
- Schedule upload or download of Azure Blob cloud storage objects
- Delete Azure Blob objects
- Retrieve processing log for problem diagnosis
- Alert on failure of Azure Blob processing or if it is late
- Create dependencies between Azure Blob objects
- Copy Azure Blob object from one container to another container
- Incorporate Azure Blob objects in existing enterprise automation workflows including dependency enforcement