The world has a ton of data and we're creating more every day and moving
all that data around can be a challenge as your data boxes help you transfer
terabytes and even petabytes of data
to asher matthew dixon is here to show is how it all works today on as your friday.
Everyone donovan brown here with another episode of
asher friday so tell me about these data boxes
data boxes are a new family of devices that we have the data help you move data into
agile okay so.
I see there's one on the desk here do I connected to my network
do I ship it somewhere tell me the rhyme and reason and how axes at the right question we have
two different paths that we can help you get data into the into the environment so we've got
devices that can help you use your network and for that we've got a data box gateway
announcing a data books gateway and we're also announcing a
data box edge which also allows you to preprocess that data before you send
it into agile got so we have a path that uses the network and we also have a path when your network is
enough so you've got a lot more data then you've got network and for that
were announcing we have three separate devices that you can use based on the amount of data that you
have the case to move to address we have data books which
create announced last year which is going
ga added nine we have disks which we've also been previewing as well so,
if you've got a smaller amount of data and you want to move that to asher we can send you disks you can fill them
up on-site and send them back to agile uploaded and we're also announcing
a data books heavy which is the heavy lifting of data large amounts of data that you would
uplifting get into algebra and it's about petabytes of data that it's capable of
filling up and sending into asher gotcha so if I simply don't have the bandwidth
or the amount of time to take on my pipe to get that bandwidth up there I were
to one of these boxes I have all the data on to that particular box ship this back to you and
then you'll take care making sure gets attach reform exactly and then I have access to that data via as
you're doing mechanisms that I want so this is like blob storage file storage and what kind are all of this
storage if only we support as a blob storage both block and page blogs and we'll support
casual files almost integers well you can you're free to transfer it around where
if you needed as well gosh so this is just a diagram of some of the family of the different types of boxes them
yes some family the devices the two different paths that you've
got the network path where you have the dialogue skate way all the
all the image sitting there with one where the data is going directly through the virtual machine that the
gateway is directly on to address you can put that on hypothetically the m land where if you may
want and, if anything that you put on that gateway will be moved
into asher and the other path the edge path it's a physical appliance that's an
activity from microsoft that has the not only
the gateway functionality but also the local compute capabilities so that you can analyze the data as it comes
in you can potentially reduce you can potentially alert you can you can
do things with information as it comes in prior to getting into asher
okay perfect so can show you a demo of how I could connect to this or how that experience would look
like by reusing short so for the ducks gateway and edge functionality andrew
just about to do at the end you has a demo which is going to go through that whole functionality so what I'm going
to demo today is the offline data transfer path that we have never
hit with the data boxes itself legacy so great I'll flip over here so we actually have a data
box here this is which is what you would order this is what would ship to asher
sort which it from asher to you okay and, I'll go through the ordering processing give
you sort of details as to how this works ok so the simple path here you come to you?
As a portal okay and very simply you select the subscription where you
what the data coming to the input type which is important to
address the source country which in this case.
We're supporting the united states and the eu for
outweigh the moment and the destination region where do I want this to end up
sci-fi okay so in this case here it's going to end up in us west
and I apply once I do this what the actual portal does is actually goes and finds
me one of my various options that I have available to me so based on the region
and based on the capabilities that we have in that region we'll show you the different devices that I
have a capable so in this case here we're in the us and you can
say we've got the data box itself which is this device here which is the hundred terabytes of
role eighty terabytes of usable capacity
that will prepare and shipped to you we also have the data books disks which is up to you
know, five usb or static connected disks we will send
to you approximate thirty-five terabytes of usable capacity you might want to move up and
adult books heavy which, you know, I couldn't fit in-studio here today what that's the one
where if you got petabytes of data this is the petabyte scale device that we can ship out to-you but the
process is very similar to the mall so I come down in this case here I want the ox this guy he?
I select that and then I put in the order details just like getting anything else ship to me from a location
okay going to need my name address and they'll order name here this order name is just so that I
have it for my own records and I can do some trace ability on the order right that's exactly it this is what we
show up so in this case and credit create a new rate and, new resource group for the job okay
ebay job what is actually a job versus where my data lives so that the job is what
define to import it defines the storage device
the provides the encryption keys it
provides the storage accounts that it's going to come into its where all the tracking comes back in
connection so it's you'll way of tracking where the data boxes and how it's moving through gosh
so all the data that relates to my data box will be stored inside that particular resource
group yes all the relates to that job yes scotch and then the storage account there is where the
actual data will end up that's correct got it okay and I can select up to ten storage account so I can
hung up to ten different storage accounts with it patterns coming into ok?
So, I put in my contact details.
Company name.
Microsoft yup street address ten twenty.
There's an industry your house you on of data at home is that this is all this is the office but
based in sunnyvale of features that you had a lot of my
dug in a particular things my dog hybrid and you make sure they're safely stored exactly,
exactly gotcha and give out the standard movie theta yes
phone number and it's going to go validate make sure that this is valid address
fixed up the typos that I had in a firm I zip code validate again.
And, now we're now ready to ship that's
ready cash and I've got all the details in there who's
it going to notify I get the job details I can see job name the
storage should state the subscription that is going to come into storage account that's going to come
into an address where it's going to be shipped to perfect so from here it's
good it's going to go through and do that order okay and what will happen is
will prepare this device in our data center fool for-you so,
in that case they it gets prepared with the right levels of encryption so
it's a secure device on it shipping so we put on a to fifty sixty encryption we
encrypted keys that transmitted securely through the portal ok so,
that means if the when the ups so a
lot of detail wallets in transit if someone gets powers that
on there's nothing they can do because the devices fully encrypted catching that key is supplied through,
through a separate secure channel okay so let's take a quick look at what it
would be when you when it arrived at your share location ok so the first thing you
can do is get this and open up the open up the front open up
the back-door okay going to come without additional packaging because it's study okay built it with
a reorganized container has no additional shipping material required so you open up the doors and,
you basically plug-in your our okay regular our that you need and,
you can plug in the networks ok so we support a specific pay plus ten gig
internet connections as well as an analogy forty
five ten gig ethernet connection is okay but transferring data on to that so,
what this is the job itself what I'm looking at here this is the job
that describes the data box itself right so after we filled in all the information you show me a moment
ago this is where this is the resource group that will get created that shows me the process of meeting my
box this shows you the job yes yet associated with that now this is one we prepared earlier it's not the same
here lately but it shows me being process being delivered now that I have it and this is where I would
also go into effect key that I would need to than unlocked box when it arrives exactly
okay can see here in the device details you'll see this is the secure locations where
you're going to get that information gotcha so then once I have this plug-in on my network I can go in
inner in this information and pretty much unlocked the box so that I can now start putting my
data that's correct okay great and this is the very simple web interface that you will come
to okay so, this is on your network imagine this is on your network plugged
in you'd come to this in order to provide the key that you
needed in order to unlock this device and this guy was provided through the
asher portal itself ok so here you can see this is an example of once
it's plugged in and unlocked what it actually looks like perfect so I
and I can configure this now also that I would then be able to go to
normal windows machine or whatever I want to navigate two devices are copy once this
devices on your network and unlocked on your network it looks just like an got it so what I'm going
to see here I can even see from this local device the local web
interface there is credentials for the and be shares that okay great
and they're also secure unique so it means that even a while it's on your network
it only the administrators of the system are able to copy and see the data that's put on the device
ok so, this smb credentials and set up as well as nfs as a protocol as well
that you can use to copy dot on to that got it so at this point I'm assuming I would is what
going-to windows explorer and then be able to mount these new shares using the credentials
you're just given exactly so what we would do you can see here this is me
browsing the server that's on the network and I can see that day is three shares
created here one share for and each of them the naming conventions relatively simple
there's the storage account name for the starts coming into the
storage type that it's bringing down there too casual files are blah-blah-blah page blob
couch so if I go into the block club I can go and you create a folder which could be,
you know, the?
Container name.
Okay, and, then.
Under the container any file that I copy into that will become and replace represented as a
blob national perfect so I would then use things like
robo copy things like that I'm going to use to copy the data in those are the tools give me the most concurrency
inability to fill this up at a very
high-rate gotcha verify that everything was copies precisely it's all in this nice
like nice integrity there then I close the doors take off my
network and our then I ship it back that's exactly it the
devices always check summing verifying the data as it comes in you can get a full
manifested all the data that's on that system before you ship it
okay and then once it's ready and ready to go it will then get picked up by
a can korea taken back to asher once it's in as your will upload all
of that data for you and give you a full history of all those all the transactions to make sure we
verify the daughter has made it and one successful within wiped that device perfect so that devices
cryptic leah raised using this sort of certified illness compliant
process to make sure that the data is inaccessible and then the devices ready for the for the next
person who wants to order awesome thank you so much for sharing this stuff with this is
very interesting technology we're learning all about asher data boxes here measure friday.
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