Remote storage provides the ability to separate compute and storage, which ushers in a new world of infinitely scalable and cost-effective storage. Remote storage in the cloud built to the HDFS standard has unique features that make it a great choice for storing and analyzing petabytes of data at a time. Customers can have unlimited storage capacity without any limit to the number or size of the files. With such scale, superior I/O performance becomes an increasingly important consideration when performing analysis on this data. For all workloads, a remote storage in the cloud can provide amazing performance when all the different knobs are tuned correctly... Speaker Stephen Wu, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft