Microsoft unveils public preview of disaster recovery for Azure IaaS

New Delhi June 6 (IANS) Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled the public preview of disaster recovery for Azure (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) IaaS virtual machines (VMs) using Azure Site Recovery (ASR).

Customers can now easily replicate and protect IaaS-based applications running on its Cloud Azure to a different Azure region of their choice within a geographical cluster without deploying any additional infrastructure components or software appliances in their subscription.

This new capability along with Azure Backup for IaaS virtual machines will allow users to create a comprehensive business continuity and disaster recovery strategy for all their IaaS based applications running on Azure the company said in a statement

It can be used to failover customers on-premises applications running on VMware or Hyper-V and using Windows or Linux to Azure from on-premises to Azure or now from one Azure region to another.

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