No backup data center?
Microsoft Azure Site Recovery will keep applications and services running on the cloud should disaster strike.
Microsoft cloud-based disaster recovery is coming with Azure Site Recovery (ASR)).
Abhishek Hemrajani, a Microsoft program manager,in the company’s official blog announced new capabilities that enable disaster recovery (DR) in the cloud. Enterprise and small and midsized businesses (SMBs) “can now protect, replicate, and failover Virtual Machines directly to Microsoft Azure.”
In short, a cloud-based DR site that can span multiple geographies.
ASR, formerly Hyper-V Recovery Manager, provides a guaranteed safety net, whether customers “enable Disaster Recovery across On-Premise Enterprise Private Clouds or directly to Azure,” said Hemrajani.
He added that “virtualized workloads will be recovered accurately, consistently, and with minimal downtime.”
Businesses no longer need to view cloud-based DR with suspicion, according to Microsoft’s Brad Anderson, corporate vice president of Windows Server and System Center. “If you’re an enterprise that has viewed previous cloud-based DR solutions with skepticism—brace yourselves for the details of this announcement,” he said in a statement. – See more at: http://www.eweek.com/cloud/microsoft-previews-all-cloud-azure-disaster-recovery-service.html#sthash.kdl092Uw.dpuf
