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Site Recovery

Last updated May 16, 2025, generated by Sumble

What is Site Recovery?

Site Recovery is a disaster recovery service that helps businesses keep apps and workloads running during outages. It replicates workloads from a primary location to a secondary location, so that when an outage occurs at the primary location, the workloads can be quickly failed over to the secondary location.

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What other technologies are related to Site Recovery?

Site Recovery Competitor Technologies

file sync

File sync solutions offer data replication and availability, which can be an alternative to Site Recovery for some disaster recovery scenarios focused on file-level recovery. Examples of competitors are Peer Software, Resilio Sync, GoodSync

mentioned alongside Site Recovery in 90% (185) of relevant job posts

Snapshot

Snapshots provide a point-in-time copy of data, which can be used as a basic form of backup and recovery, presenting a limited alternative to Site Recovery's comprehensive disaster recovery capabilities. Example implementations of this technology are Zerto and Veeam.

mentioned alongside Site Recovery in 20% (187) of relevant job posts

Backup

Backup solutions, especially those that can restore to a different location, offer an alternative to Site Recovery for protecting workloads. Backup and Restore is often sufficient and less expensive. Examples of competitors are Commvault, Rubrik, and Dell Avamar.

mentioned alongside Site Recovery in 2% (258) of relevant job posts

Azure Backup

Azure Backup provides backup and restore capabilities, which can be an alternative to Site Recovery for protecting workloads.

mentioned alongside Site Recovery in 4% (105) of relevant job posts

Site Recovery Complementary Technologies

Traffic Manager

Traffic Manager can be used to automatically redirect traffic to the recovered site after a failover initiated by Site Recovery, ensuring business continuity.

mentioned alongside Site Recovery in 17% (238) of relevant job posts

Azure DNS

Azure DNS is used for managing DNS records, which can be updated to point to the recovered site after a failover by Site Recovery.

mentioned alongside Site Recovery in 18% (210) of relevant job posts

Azure Virtual Networks

Azure Virtual Networks are essential for creating isolated and secure network environments for both the primary and recovery sites in Site Recovery scenarios.

mentioned alongside Site Recovery in 10% (204) of relevant job posts