Management and governance

Enable backup of VMs with Managed Disks using Azure Backup

With large Enterprises deploying Azure Site Recovery(ASR) as their Trusted Disaster Recovery(DR) solution, many of their DR Architects have asked us about what we think are the best practices to be followed while deploying ASR in production environments…

Recently, we have improved the robustness of web page monitoring in Application Insights, and introduced the ability not to use cookies. Transmission is now more reliable in the face of throttling and network issues, and when a page is about to unload.

Today, I am excited to announce the general availability of Managed Disks. With this PaaS-like support, you no longer need to be concerned with the complexity of storage management nor worry about storage as you scale.

Now instantly recover files from cloud recovery points using Azure backup

Azure Portal with Azure Resource Manager and Cool Storage Account Support Today we are announcing the availability of Azure Import/Export Service in the new Azure portal.

We built an integrated workflow enabling users to build their applications on Azure using graphical and command line tools, even on devices where command line tools aren’t installed.

Azure Site Recovery’s support statement for Windows Server 2016.

We are excited to announce you can set any ARM-based Virtual Machines to auto-shutdown with a few simple clicks!

This is an announcement for the support of VMware VM backups using Azure Backup Server Update 1.

We’re excited to introduce a public preview of the DocumentDB Emulator, which provides a local development experience for the Azure DocumentDB service.

We announced the general availability of Azure Application Insights (previously Visual Studio Application Insights) and launched our new pricing structure.