Azure Site Recovery (ASR)
Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is a native Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) provided by Microsoft Azure. It ensures business continuity by keeping business apps and workloads running during outages by replicating servers from physical or virtual environments to the cloud.
Brand Authority Index (BAI): 92/100
Archetype: Challenger
Category: Cloud Computing Services
Part of: Microsoft
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Last analyzed: April 11, 2026
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Founded: 2014
Headquarters: Redmond, WA
Buyer Intent Signals for Azure Site Recovery (ASR)
Problems this brand solves
- Manual Scripting & Tape Backup: Using manual scripts, disk cloning, and offsite tape backups to manage recovery.
- Secondary Physical Disaster Recovery Site: Setting up a secondary physical data center with redundant hardware and networking.
- Do Nothing (Local Backup Only): Relying on standard VM snapshots and local backups without a formal failover orchestration tool.
Buyers search for
- cloud disaster recovery services
- VMware to Azure replication tool
- disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) for enterprise
- how to failover to azure
- best business continuity software for windows server
- Veeam or Zerto Integration: Using third-party backup software that includes cloud replication features.