Azure Site Recovery: Backup & Disaster Recovery

Ensure business continuity with Azure's robust services for backing up data and orchestrating replication, failover, and failback for your workloads.

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Azure Backup

The Azure Backup service provides simple, secure, and cost-effective solutions to back up your data and recover it from the Microsoft Azure cloud.

What You Can Back Up:

  • On-premises files, folders, system state
  • Entire Windows/Linux VMs
  • Azure Managed Disks
  • Azure file shares
  • SQL Server databases on Azure VMs

Key Backup Benefits

On-premises Backup to Cloud

Simple, secure backup for on-prem resources without complex local solutions.

Azure IaaS VM Backup

Independent, isolated backups guard against accidental data destruction.

Easy Scaling

Leverages Azure cloud power for high availability with no maintenance overhead.

Secure Data

Provides solutions for securing data both in transit and at rest.

Centralized Management

Built-in monitoring and alerting capabilities without extra infrastructure.

App-Consistent Backups

Ensures recovery points have all data needed to restore applications without extra fixes.

Flexible Retention

Use Recovery Services vaults for both short-term and long-term data retention.

Automatic Storage Management

No cost for using on-premises storage; Azure manages cloud storage automatically.

Azure Disaster Recovery

Adopt a robust business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) strategy to keep data safe and workloads online during outages. Azure Site Recovery manages and orchestrates replication, failover, and failback of on-premises machines and Azure VMs.

Cloud Economics

Maintaining a secondary datacenter is expensive. By leveraging Azure as your DR site, capital and operating expenses are replaced with a pay-as-you-go model – pay only for compute when you need it during a failover.

Replication Capabilities

  • Azure VMs to another Azure region
  • AWS Windows instances to Azure
  • On-premises VMware VMs to Azure
  • On-premises Hyper-V VMs to Azure
  • On-premises Physical servers (Win/Linux) to Azure
  • Azure Stack VMs to Azure
  • On-premises VMware/Hyper-V/Physical to a secondary site

Full-Featured Disaster Recovery

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    Replicate on-prem apps to Azure, eliminating the need for a secondary datacenter.

  • N-Tier Application Consistency

    Detect, stage, and restore multi-tier apps as a group with specified startup order and scripting.

  • Low Recovery Point Objective (RPO)

    Achieve near-synchronous RPOs (as low as 30s) using Azure as the recovery site.

  • Quick Recovery

    Recover from disruptions within minutes, backed by Azure’s 99.9% uptime guarantee.

  • Data Security & Secure Transmission

    Data is encrypted when in transit and at rest in Azure.

  • Automated Failback

    Easily fail back to your primary datacenter with one click and data protection guarantees.

  • Remote Monitoring

    Proactive, continuous monitoring and alerting on issues before business impact.

  • No Impact DR Drill

    Perform periodic DR testing without impacting production or recovery VMs.

  • Compliance Adherence

    Easily comply with regulations like ISO 27001 by replicating between Azure regions.

WinMethods & Azure Expertise

As a Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider, WinMethods possesses the expertise to design, implement, and manage robust Azure Backup and Disaster Recovery solutions tailored to your business needs.

Ensure your data is protected and your applications remain available with our certified Azure professionals.

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Protect your data and keep critical applications running during outages with Azure Backup and Site Recovery. Contact WinMethods to design your BCDR strategy.