Microsoft Azure opens a public preview of disaster recovery for IAAS

New Delhi, June 6: 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 now easily reflect and protect the IAAS-based applications running in their Cloud Azure for their additional subscription parts or software tools in their subscription, in a geographical cluster that is easily accessible to another Azure area.

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.