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Aidan Finn looks at Microsoft’s recently launched Azure Backup Server, additional support for Windows Server 2016, and VMware 6.5 to its on-premises extension to the cloud backup service.

Aidan Finn discusses recent improvements that were announced for Azure Backup, making backups more efficient, large VM restores faster, and enabling support for virtual hard disks that are larger than 1TiB (1024GB).

Learn to use Instant File Recovery with the MARS agent to restore files from Azure Backup.

Aidan Finn provides an overview of the process that Azure Backup currently uses to seed the first full backup using a secure couriered disk transfer.

Aidan Finn gives us a look at Microsoft’s new Project Venus, which is a multi-step project that will quickly add desired features to Azure Backup.

Azure Backup Center provides a single pane of glass for managing backup of Azure resources at scale.

Azure Backup can be used to back up not only an organization’s critical cloud workloads but also all types of on-premises resources, even if they are running on Azure Stack HCI or Azure Stack Hub. Before explaining how Azure Backup can be set up and used for disaster recovery (DR), I want to get a…

Microsoft has announced the general availability of its new Copilot for Security solution. The new AI-powered service is designed to assist security professionals in fortifying defenses against cyber threats. Microsoft first announced its Copilot for Security tool back in March 2023. Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Microsoft’s own security-specific model, Copilot for Security offers real-time…

Microsoft has released a new security feature, Multi-User Authorization (MUA), for Azure Backup vaults. Azure Backup is a cloud-based service that allows users to perform backup and restore data, from various Azure services and on-premises Windows Server, in the Azure cloud. MUA enhances protection by providing an additional layer of security, a Resource Guard, to…

Aidan Finn shows you how you can restore an Azure virtual machine from a snapshot, using the recent update that was rolled out to Azure Backup.