Where I work, we currently use a third party SSO provider to access most of the day-to-day applications we use. When I went this morning to log my hours for the week, I got a Server 500 error! Unfortunately, the cloud SSO provider was offline. This, it turns out, was due to an AWS failure […]
Category: Disaster Recovery
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Azure Backup
Continuing my previous post about leveraging the public cloud for business continuity and disaster recovery scenarios, I’m going to expand on the capabilities of Azure Backup briefly. If you’re interested in this subject, the best place to start is with the Azure documentation on the subject, found here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/backup-introduction-to-azure-backup/ There’s three primary scenarios where you […]
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Business Continuity with Azure
What’s your current backup solution? What would happen if your datacenter burned down this weekend? What would happen if a junior administrator accidentally deletes a production SQL database or server? I’ve been asked to do a webinar describing the features that Microsoft Azure provides for backup and recovery, so I started thinking about the state […]