Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure — March 2018 Edition

Month 3 of 2018 brought us some interesting news in Azure IaaS. Some things that have been in the oven for a while are starting to rise and there’s lots more evidence of the new and open Microsoft.

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Azure Backup Instant VM Recovery and Large Disks

Aidan Finn discusses recent improvements that were announced for Azure Backup, making backups more efficient, large VM restores faster, and enabling support for virtual hard disks that are larger than 1TiB (1024GB).

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Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure — January Edition

It’s a new year and it’s time for new things. This month I’m starting a monthly series to summarize some notable things that have happened in Azure IaaS.

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System State Support by Azure Backup Is Generally Available

Aidan Finn discusses what the recent GA of system state protection by Azure Backup means for you and shows how to add system state to MARS agent backup policy.

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My Azure Infrastructure Highlights of 2017

Aidan Finn reviews his highlights in the last year of Azure infrastructure improvements. Please share your highlights too.

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Preview of Centralized Reporting for Azure Backup

Aidan Finn discusses the preview that has been launched to allow you to centrally visualize and report on your usage of Azure Backup.

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Azure Backup Server Adds Support for WS2016 and VMware 6.5

Aidan Finn looks at Microsoft’s recently launched Azure Backup Server, additional support for Windows Server 2016, and VMware 6.5 to its on-premises extension to the cloud backup service.

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Azure Backup Agent Adds Support for System State

Aidan Finn explains how to use a preview feature of the Azure Backup MARS agent to backup and restore system state for Windows Server machines.

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