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In this blog post, we will introduce the private preview of Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS). This means that you can now replicate and failover your Azure Trusted Launch VMs to another Azure region using Azure Site Recovery. This will help you achieve business continuity and disaster recovery for your critical workloads that require enhanced security.
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In the event of an outage at one of your locations, if you wish to maintain your private connection to Microsoft, Azure’s newly announced feature, the ExpressRoute guided portal experience, might be of interest to you.
This feature, which is currently in public preview, makes it easier for you to configure multi-site resilient ExpressRoute circuits and connect them to a virtual network gateway. It also provides information such as distance between the peering-locations (sites) and traffic engineering recommendations to help you make informed configuration decisions.
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Business continuity is a vital aspect of any organization’s digital strategy, especially in the face of potential disruptions such as natural disasters, cyberattacks, or human errors. To help you achieve your business continuity goals, we are excited to announce the Public Preview of Azure Business Continuity (ABC) Center, a new initiative that enables you to govern, monitor, operate, and analyze protection at scale across all regions.
Azure Site Recovery is a service that helps you keep your data safe and your apps and workloads online when planned and unplanned outages occur. It allows you to replicate your Azure VMs to another region and failover to the secondary region in case of a disaster.
But what if you are using Premium SSD v2 disks for your Azure VMs? Premium SSD v2 is a new offering that provides the most advanced block storage solution for IO-intensive enterprise workloads that require sub-millisecond disk latencies and high IOPS and throughput at a low cost. Premium SSD v2 disks are currently available in select regions and can only be attached to zonal VMs.
Continue reading “How to enable Azure Site Recovery on Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2”Azure NetApp Files is a fully managed cloud service that provides high-performance file storage for enterprise applications. It supports multiple protocols, such as NFS, SMB, and iSCSI, and integrates seamlessly with Azure Virtual Networks.
One of the features of Azure NetApp Files is the ability to create capacity pools, which are logical containers for volumes that share the same performance tier and network features. Capacity pools allow you to provision storage in advance and pay only for what you use.
Continue reading “How to save money with Azure NetApp Files 1 TiB capacity pools”Microsoft Copilot for Azure (preview) is a new AI-powered tool that can help you do more with Azure. It can answer your questions, generate queries, perform tasks, and safely act on your behalf. It can also help you discover new benefits of the cloud, gain insights into your workloads, and orchestrate across both cloud and edge.
In this post, I will show you how to use Microsoft Copilot for Azure (preview) to optimize your cloud and edge workloads. I will use an example of a web app that runs on Azure App Service and uses Azure Database for MySQL as the backend. I will also show you how to use Microsoft Copilot for Azure (preview) to connect to Azure Arc-enabled servers and devices.
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Should you have a web application hosted on Azure App Service, it could be beneficial to back up its files and configuration data to a secure storage account for recovery in the event of accidental deletion, corruption, or other unforeseen circumstances. However, if your application is connected to a virtual network or is situated in a v3 App Service environment, you would need to employ custom backups for this purpose.
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In today’s fast-paced business landscape, agility and efficiency are paramount for organizations striving to maintain a competitive edge. For companies that rely on SAP (Systems, Applications, and Products) to manage their critical business processes, deploying and managing SAP systems can be a complex and resource-intensive endeavor. However, thanks to advancements in cloud technology and automation, there’s a game-changing solution on the horizon – automating the deployment of SAP systems on Microsoft Azure, powered by Microsoft’s SAP Deployment Automation Framework.
In this blog post, we will explore the significance of automating SAP system deployment on Azure, the numerous benefits it offers to companies and IT professionals, and how Microsoft’s SAP Deployment Automation Framework can help streamline and enhance the process.
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Azure Firewall is a cloud-native network security service that protects your Azure resources and applications. It operates in a transparent proxy mode by default, which means that traffic is sent to the firewall using a user defined route (UDR) configuration. The firewall intercepts that traffic inline and passes it to the destination.
However, there is another mode that you can use for your outbound traffic: Explicit proxy. This mode allows you to configure a proxy setting on the sending application, such as a web browser, with Azure Firewall acting as the designated proxy. This way, traffic from the sending application goes to the firewall’s private IP address and egresses directly from the firewall without the need for a UDR.
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If you’re seeking a seamless transition of your local files and folders to the cloud, or if you’re interested in the scalability, security, and performance benefits of Azure file shares, then the new feature of Azure Storage Mover could be just what you need. This fully managed migration service can assist you in migrating your SMB shares to Azure file shares with ease.
Azure Storage Mover is a hybrid service that consists of a cloud component and an agent component. The cloud component orchestrates the migration process and provides a user interface for creating and managing migration jobs. The agent component runs on your on-premises servers and performs the actual data transfer between your SMB shares and Azure file shares.
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