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While the Azure platform provides high availability within a single data center, as discussed in the previous post , it currently does not explicitly support or enable disaster recovery or geographically distributed high availability. This post and the...

Last week, JJ Dubray asked me to write something about NeXT in Steve's honor for InfoQ. It's part of a post about Steve with thoughts from several people, including Eric Schmidt and Tim Berners-Lee. My thoughts are near the bottom of the post.

Azure customers want their services to be continuously available to their users, despite component failures, platform degradations and data center outages. In other words, they want business continuity. To achieve it, the services must be highly available...

This post describes the basics of business continuity. Business continuity poses both business and technical challenges. In this series, we focus on the technical challenges, which include failure detection, response, diagnosis, and defect correction...

Currently, both Windows Azure and SQL Azure offer high availability within a single data center. As long as a data center remains operational and accessible from the Internet, services hosted there can achieve high availability. Windows Azure Windows...