Microsoft Azure provides very compelling cloud storage services, Azure Storage offers a massively scalable object store for data objects (Blob), a file system service for the cloud (Files), a messaging store for reliable messaging (Queues), and a NoSQL store (Tables).
As containers continue to rise in popularity beyond the developer populous the way these constructs are being used becomes increasingly varied, especially (but not exclusively) in light of enterprise applications the questions of persistent storage comes up more and more.
Data also keeps growing, a corollary to Parkinson’s law is that data expands to fill the space available for storage, just like clutter around your house.
3D Xpoint, as the name implies, is a crosspoint structure, meaning 2 wires crossing each other, with “some material*” in between, it does not use transistors (like DRAM does) which makes it easier to stack (hence the 3D)
Note that the feasibility of any of these techniques depends on the type of VDI environment you are architecting, and these are some examples of what is possible, the list is no way exhaustive.
