There’s cost, the need for remote monitoring capabilities, recovery time, and the complexity of restoring inter-dependent services in the right order. That’s why many workloads that could benefit from protection often go without it. Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager helps simplify the business continuity of applications by coordinating the replication of virtual machines at a secondary location. What is Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager? Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager helps you centrally configure and administer business continuity between clouds managed by System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Health monitoring and recovery orchestration provide for a quick recovery in the event of a service outage. Service package ( Microsoft Azure Backup ): Backup and recovery are critical tasks for any organisation. Keeping data safe, however, can prove to be a complex procedure. Backup and recovery often requires the installation of additional software, … [Read more...] about Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager makes business continuity simpler
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Microsoft showcases developers opportunity on Windows platform
Today thousands of developers gathered at The Moscone Center, with hundreds of thousands more participating online, for the second day of Build 2013, where Microsoft Corp. demonstrated that the developer opportunity on the Windows platform has never been greater. Keynotes delivered by Satya Nadella, president, Server and Tools Business, and Steve Guggenheimer, corporate vice president and chief evangelist, Developer Platform Evangelism, showcased how commonality across the Windows platform enabled developers of all types to build compelling apps and experiences spanning devices and services. Developers today are building multidevice, multiscreen, cloud-connected experiences. Windows Azure spans infrastructure and platform capabilities to provide them with a comprehensive set of services to easily and quickly build modern applications, using the tools and languages familiar to them. "Developers are increasingly demanding a flexible, comprehensive platform that helps them build … [Read more...] about Microsoft showcases developers opportunity on Windows platform
Windows Azure update launched
Today Microsoft announced a major update to its cloud computing platform—Windows Azure, that will enable customers to quickly and easily move existing apps to the cloud— to preserve their existing investments on-premise, while also taking advantage of the cloud's economics, speed and scale. With the general availability of Windows Azure Infrastructure Services (IaaS), Microsoft is now the only cloud provider who can offer customers a comprehensive hybrid cloud solution that integrates existing IT infrastructure with all the benefits of the public cloud. In addition, Microsoft is announcing a commitment to match Amazon Web Services' prices for commodity services like compute, storage and bandwidth. Today's announcement officially makes the battle for the enterprise cloud a two-horse race between Microsoft and Amazon. According to Gartner, IaaS is the fastest growing segment of the public cloud services market, with emerging markets in Asia Pacific showing the highest … [Read more...] about Windows Azure update launched
Windows Azure announces new services and updates
Microsoft has announced new services and updates for Windows Azure that will be available in preview starting today, June 7. Microsoft will also add support for new operating systems, release new language libraries for .NET, Java, PHP, and Node.js, and will make Windows Azure available in new geographies. With these changes, customers will find it easier to build new apps using familiar and popular languages, tools and frameworks, or move existing apps to the cloud using virtual machines. Key updates include: · Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS):Capabilities include Windows Azure Virtual Machines for Windows and Linux-based applications, as well as the Windows Azure Virtual Network to securely link Windows Azure with on-premises networks. · Interoperability Updates: Microsoft is making it easier for developers to create and deploy applications on Windows Azure in the languages and on the platforms of their choice by now providing libraries for Java and … [Read more...] about Windows Azure announces new services and updates
Microsoft Azure key to enable VTC Intecom’s international expansion
Digital content provider VTC Intecom reported improved competitiveness thanks to better quality service, security and scalability with the deployment of Microsoft Azure. With more than 1,000 staffs, a huge distribution system scattered across 63 provinces in Vietnam, and millions of both local and foreign customers, to solve the problem of fulfilling service needs and bring the best-quality service to customers on a large scale, VTC Intecom has generated cloud computing since the first day, in parallel with traditional IT solutions. VTC Intecom, in addition, has independently studied, built, and deployed cloud computing applications. Doing research and deploying cloud solutions by itself has enabled VTC Intecom to optimise operations, fees, human resource, etc., especially when generating services in Vietnam. Despite having advantages of deploying infrastructure and cloud for customers within the country, VTC Intecom has still been coping with many challenges when intending to … [Read more...] about Microsoft Azure key to enable VTC Intecom’s international expansion