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WHAT’S NEW IN THE CLOUD ADOPTION FRAMEWORK (CAF)?<\/h3>\n

April saw a number of updates to the Cloud Adoption Framework<\/a> documentation. One really useful change is bringing all the tools, templates and assessments together into one place. There has also been considerable work done on the Landing Zones guidance incorporating guidance on refactoring templates and incorporating Test Driven Development.<\/p>\n

For more information on what’s new to the CAF, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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CROSS REGION RESTORE FOR AZURE VMs SUPPORT USING AZURE BACKUP NOW IN PREVIEW<\/h3>\n

In April Microsoft Azure announced the\u00a0<\/span>preview of<\/span>\u00a0Cross Region Restore<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>(<\/span>CRR<\/span>)<\/span>\u00a0for Azure VMs using Microsoft Azure Backup<\/span><\/a>. What does this mean for you? It means\u00a0<\/span>you can now initiate back up data restores in a secondary region at will to\u00a0mitigate real downtime disaster in the primary region for\u00a0<\/span>you<\/span>r environment. This makes the secondary region restores completely\u00a0<\/span>customer-controlled<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Custom<\/span><\/i>e<\/span><\/i>r controlled CRR. Source:\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Microsoft<\/span><\/i><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Key features available with the preview include:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n