Backup and recovery are two important mechanisms designed for the purpose of ensuring the continual health of your data. Backups are typically divided into categories that measure level of usage, such as cold storage for archives. The purpose of recovery is to ensure that you have a backup to restore if and when your data is lost. This article offers a review of key Azure backup and recovery services..

Disaster recovery is a set of processes, techniques, and tools used to swiftly and smoothly recover vital IT infrastructure and data when an unforeseen event causes an outage.

The statistics tell the best story about the importance of disaster recovery—98 percent of organizations reported that a single hour of downtime costs over $100,000, while 81 percent indicated that an hour of downtime costs their business over $300,000...