Like many cloud service providers, Microsoft has identified disaster recovery as a key driver for its hybrid infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering. Microsoft this year delivered a critical ...

The best way to truly protect your data is to have at least three copies of it. First, there's the original copy -- the live data, of course. Next, you need a backup copy of the data that you can ...

Microsoft’s Azure-based high availability disaster recovery service turns the cloud into your off-site failover for complex applications, and it can double as a migration strategy. When Microsoft ...

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Among the flood of Microsoft announcements about Azure in the past week — including Redis Cache for Azure and SSD-based instances for Azure VMs — one real standout is the general availability of ...

The “superscaler” cloud computing companies – Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure – are now significant players in enterprise data storage, archiving and backup. The big ...