How to develop your service health alerting strategy
23 September 2019
Service issues are anything that could affect your availability from outages and planned maintenance to service transitions and retirements.
Storage, Backup & Recovery
Azure Files premium tier gets zone redundant storage
18 September 2019
Today we'll be talking about the general availability of zone redundant storage (ZRS) for Azure Files premium tier. Azure Files premium tier with ZRS replication enables highly performant, highly available file services, that are built on solid-state drives (SSD).
Announcing user delegation SAS tokens preview for Azure Storage Blobs
16 September 2019
Azure Storage is previewing support for pre-authorized URLs (SAS tokens) based on Azure Active Directory identities.
Reduce disaster recovery time with Azure Site Recovery
03 September 2019
Companies and cloud solutions teams by and large understand the need for a disaster recovery solution. One of the first steps while defining and choosing a disaster recovery plan is to perform a business impact analysis.
Track the health of your disaster recovery with Log Analytics
29 August 2019
Once you adopt Azure Site Recovery, monitoring of your setup can become a very involved exercise. You’ll need to ensure that the replication for all protected instances continue and that virtual machines are always ready for failover.
Azure Archive Storage expanded capabilities: faster, simpler, better
19 August 2019
Since launching Azure Archive Storage in December 2017, we have seen unprecedented interest and innovative usage from a variety of industries. Archive Storage is built as a scalable service for cost effectively storing rarely accessed data for long periods of time.
Azure Ultra Disk Storage: Microsoft's service for your most I/O demanding workloads
15 August 2019
Today, Tad Brockway, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Azure, announced the general availability of Azure Ultra Disk Storage, an Azure Managed Disks offering that provides massive throughput with sub-millisecond latency for your most I/O demanding workloads.
Announcing the general availability of Azure Ultra Disk Storage
15 August 2019
Today, we are announcing the general availability (GA) of Microsoft Azure Ultra Disk Storage—a new Managed Disks offering that delivers unprecedented and extremely scalable performance with sub-millisecond latency for the most demanding Azure Virtual Machines and container workloads.
Geo Zone Redundant Storage in Azure now in preview
14 August 2019
Announcing the preview of Geo Zone Redundant Storage in Azure. Geo Zone Redundant Storage provides a great balance of high performance, high availability, and disaster recovery and is beneficial when building highly available applications or services in Azure.
We’re making Azure Archive Storage better with new lower pricing
05 August 2019
As part of our commitment to provide the most cost-effective storage offering, we’re excited to share that we have dropped Azure Archive Storage prices by up to 50 percent in some regions. The new pricing is effective immediately.