Thursday, February 14, 2019
Storage spaces direct (S2D) lets you host a guest cluster on Microsoft Azure which is especially useful in scenarios where virtual machines (VMs) are hosting a critical application like SQL, Scale out file server, or SAP ASCS.
Monday, February 4, 2019
Based on Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery usage trends, we know that many of you are well along on your Azure migration journey. We’re now working on the next wave of innovation to further enhance and simplify your migration experience.
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Azure is the first public cloud to offer native disaster recovery solution for applications running on IaaS. We want to start this year with a recap of all the new capabilities that we enabled in the last few months that customers have loved.
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
We are continuously enhancing our offerings to help you in your digital transformation journey to the cloud. You can read more about these offerings in the blog, “Three reasons why Windows Server and SQL Server customers continue to choose Azure.”
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Azure offers built-in disaster recovery (DR) solution for Azure Virtual Machines through Azure Site Recovery. In addition to the broadest global coverage, Azure has the most comprehensive resiliency strategy in the industry from mitigating rack level failures with Availability Sets and data center failures with Availability Zones to protecting against large-scale events with failover to separate regions with Azure Site Recovery.
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Azure Availability Zones are unique fault-isolated physical locations, within an Azure region, with independent power, network, and cooling. Each Availability Zone is comprised of one or more datacenters and houses infrastructure to support highly available, mission critical applications with fault tolerance to datacenter failures.
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
One of the biggest hassles faced by administrators while using services provided by cloud providers is the need to catch up with the latest release and stay up-to-date. This involves downloading the latest software and performing frequent upgrades.
Monday, August 20, 2018
Migrate WIndows Server 2008 machines to Azure using Azure Site Recovery and get free extended security updates for three more years.
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Azure Site Recovery now powers Veritas Backup Exec Instant Cloud Recovery (ICR) with Backup Exec 20.2 release. With ICR, Backup Exec users can easily create automatically updated off-site replicas of Virtual Machines in the Azure for a quick failover in case of a disruption on-premises. Backup Exec customers can minimize Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) for business critical applications realizing the benefits of Azure as dynamic disaster recovery platform using ICR.
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
On June 4th 2018, Corey Sanders announced the general availability of disaster recovery (DR) for Azure virtual machines using Azure Site Recovery in his blog post about why you should bet on azure for your infrastructure needs today and in the future.