Disaster Recovery

Replication is one of the fastest and most effective high availability technologies for protecting and quickly restoring VMs in the event of a site or system failure. Find out how virtual machine replicas enable you to minimize downtime.

Aidan Finn explains how a new preview feature, Azure Site Recovery for Azure Virtual Machines, can provide disaster recovery services for virtual machines that are running in Azure.

When you’re creating a disaster recovery strategy for your business, there are two main criteria that you need to consider: your Restore Point Objectives and your Restore Time Objectives. Take a look at how your RPOs and RTOs affect your DR strategies.

Building and testing Disaster Recovery (DR) plans isn’t anyone’s favorite activity, but it is very important. Find out how to get started building a new DR plan or revamping an existing one.

Although the basics of replication are fairly straightforward, there are several factors that can influence the efficiency and effectiveness of the replication process.

Amazon’s cloud service, AWS, recently had a major outage that affected almost an entire region. With that outage fresh in our memories, I thought I’d write a post on how to prevent services outages in Azure.

Learn how to perform geo-load balancing for deployments in different Azure regions using Traffic Manager profiles in Azure Resource Manager (ARM) or Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) subscriptions.

Delta is experencing a global outage of its computer system becuase of a power outage at its headquarters which raises the question as to why they don’t have a backup facility located in another part of the country.

Microsoft has launched a public preview of Azure Site Recovery in the Azure Portal.

Aidan Finn explains how Microsoft is simplifying Azure Site Recovery for vSphere, which should make Microsoft’s DR site in the cloud much more attractive.