In the contemporary digital landscape, the establishment of robust business continuity strategies is imperative for organizations navigating the complexities of technology. Given the heavy reliance on digital infrastructure, fortifying these systems against potential disruptions is crucial. In response to this challenge, we are thrilled to introduce the General availability of Azure Business Continuity (ABC) Center, across all regions.
Azure Backup center has now evolved into Azure Business Continuity Center, with advanced and powerful BCDR management capabilities. With the Azure Business Continuity Center, enterprises can seamlessly govern, monitor, operate, and analyze protection at-scale. This release includes support for the following key features:
- Insights into Protection Estate: Gain comprehensive insights into the protection estate across solutions such as Backup and Azure Site Recovery for both your Azure and Hybrid (VMware) resources. Explore more in Business Continuity with ABCC: Part 1: Understand Protection Estate Summary - Microsoft Community Hub
- Identify and Protect Resources: Easily identify resources that are not currently protected and take proactive measures to secure them. Refer to Business Continuity with ABCC: Part 2: understand your protectable resources inventory - Microsoft Community Hub.
- Centralized Resource Protection: Ensure the protection of resources and execute actions from a single, centralized location. Detailed information is available in Business Continuity with ABCC: Part 3: understand your protected items inventory - Microsoft Community Hub
- Optimize Security Configuration: Safeguard your resources against scenarios like ransomware threats, malicious attacks, and rogue admin activities. Learn how to optimize security configurations in Business Continuity with ABCC: Part 4: optimize security configuration - Microsoft Community Hub
- Unified Monitoring: Attain quick visibility into failures in meeting business continuity SLAs through unified monitoring. Utilize various views, such as jobs, to monitor from a central location and configure alerts and notifications for timely awareness of any SLA violations regarding critical resources. Business Continuity with ABCC: Part 5: Monitoring protection - Microsoft Community Hub
- Ensuring Compliance: Leverage inbuilt Azure Policies to govern resources for business continuity and ensure compliance. Obtain a detailed compliance list of all assigned Azure Policies, including the number of resources within the scope of assignment that are compliant or non-compliant. ABCC seamlessly integrates with Azure Policy, empowering customers with robust compliance capabilities.
- Oversight of BCDR Artifacts - Efficiently create and oversee the lifecycle of artifacts such as vaults. Automate common and standard use cases, including the lifecycle management of schedules and policies established for both Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery.
- Obtain Insights - For analyzing historical trends and gaining deeper insights on your protection across Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery. Reports offer the following capabilities:
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- Allocating and forecasting of cloud storage consumed.
- Auditing backups and restores.
- Identifying key trends at different levels of granularity.
- Gaining visibility and insights into cost optimization opportunities for your backups.
Learn more about ABC Center to understand how it can revolutionize your business continuity journey for the resources
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