Microsoft has put out in Preview a technology that will completely change how we view disaster recovery and failover of virtual machines and the benefits of the Cloud! What Azure Site Recovery (ASR) ...

A number of options are available for providing high availability protection for applications running in the Azure cloud. Some of these options are cloud-based services. Some are in the operating ...

Microsoft has detailed a couple of improvements to the way Azure SQL Database handles failovers in case of an outage. It works with individual databases, elastic pools, or a combination of both. The ...

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Every IT team should have a detailed disaster recovery plan that outlines which apps will be available in the event of an outage, how long it will take to bring them online and how much data loss is ...

While many IT organizations remain hesitant to discard their private data centers, most see the value of public cloud for data backup and disaster recovery. However, as many IT pros have learned the ...

Microsoft has put together a post-mortem on what it described as an 'unprecedented' Azure outage – exploring an interesting question of data loss and failover capability. The outage, which affected ...