Backup

Microsoft announced a number of improvements to Azure, including new services, price reductions, and virtual machines that affect IT pros.

Microsoft released Update Rollup 7 (UR7) for System Center 2012 R2 about 1 month ago. Read why it’s probably safe to deploy this update now.

Microsoft has made Azure Backup for IaaS virtual machines generally available. Learn about the improvements made to this vital service with this release.

Learn about Microsoft’s recent enhancements made to on-premises and in-cloud monitoring, online backup, and backing up VMware virtual machines.

Aidan Finn shares his experience on how he almost lost his production machine data and reviews whether Azure Backup for Virtual Machine works in the event of data loss.

Petri Contributing Editor Aidan Finn walks us through how to use Azure Backup to protect Microsoft Azure IaaS virtual machines.

Aidan Finn explains how Microsoft is positioning Azure towards small and medium enterprises as a supplement to on-premise IT resources.

Curious about what Microsoft StorSimple is? Aidan Finn provides a thorough overview of Microsoft’s promising hybrid storage solution in this informative post.

Russell Smith shows how easy it is to create a USB recovery disk for your Windows 8 system.

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