Windows Server 2012 R2: a first look

Disaster recovery is difficult and neglected by some businesses. Microsoft hopes to make it easier with its new Azure Recovery Services. Although Azure does not host the actual recovery data, the Hyper-V Recover Manager lets you plan and configure replication of an entire network between two datacentres, building on the services of Hyper-V Replica, storage replication, virtual networking, and System Center orchestration. Testing an Azure recovery plan is easy, and although the requirement for two datacentres cuts out all but the largest organisations, the service can be offered by partners to smaller businesses.