This option is most directly applied to Windows Azure Storage. You have a host endpoint (e.g. .table.windows.core.net) that will be limited to only two connections if you do not set this policy. However, if you know about Windows Azure storage, then you know that you achieve scalability by parallelizing queries. In this case, you want a lot of simultaneous connections. In our environment, where we have extreme partitioning and many operations related to IO, we have this limit of about 100, IIRC.
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