On October 7th, 2015 Microsoft announced the general availability of its Azure Backup Server. Azure Backup Server was previously known as Project Venus and targets backup scenarios for small and ...

Microsoft Azure Backup now provides cloud data protection capabilities for both Windows Server data and configuration information.

Microsoft updated Windows Azure this month to integrate with its latest flagship software offerings, rolling out some new services as well.

An updated test release of Microsoft's cloud backup service adds support for Windows Server Essentials 2012, among other new features.

But that wouldn’t give you on-premises backups, too, and adding the Microsoft Azure Backup Server brings a lot of functionality to the mix — at absolutely no cost to you.

Windows Azure Backup Service also backs up data from System Center Data Protection Manager and Windows Server Essentials and encrypts it onsite before sending it to the cloud, Guthrie said in the ...

For larger deployments and Linux servers, look at Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS). This is a "pay-per-protected instance" version of System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2016.

Microsoft is changing the way customers are billed for Azure Backup, the company’s cloud-based data backup offering, in a move that can help lower the cost of protecting their data.

The Windows Azure Backup service works with Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 Essentials and System Center 2012 Service Pack 1. It enables local backups or backups to Windows Azure storage in ...