Microsoft Azure can be used to protect your on-premise assets such as virtual machines, applications, and data. In this chapter, you will learn how to use Microsoft Azure to store backup data, replicate data, and even for orchestration of a failover and failback of a complete data center.
You will also learn how applications and the data running on Azure are protected by the Azure infrastructure and what we can do to get maximum uptime for our applications.
We will focus on the following topics:
Microsoft Failover clustering
Microsoft Azure Backup Vault for storage of backup data
Azure Site Recovery for failover and failback of virtual machines
SQL Server Replication to protect SQL databases
Microsoft StorSimple
Azure snapshots to protect Azure virtual machines