http://sqlblog.com/blogs/buck_woody/archive/2013/01/08/microsoft-windows-azure-disaster-recovery-options-for-on-premises-sql-server.aspxOne of the use-cases for a cloud solution is to serve as a Disaster Recovery option for your on-premises servers. I&rsquo;ll explain one particular use-case in this entry, specifically using Windows Azure &ldquo;IaaS&rdquo; or Virtual Machines as a RecoveryenCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.1)http://sqlblog.com/blogs/buck_woody/archive/2013/01/08/microsoft-windows-azure-disaster-recovery-options-for-on-premises-sql-server.aspx#47079Wed, 09 Jan 2013 09:56:09 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:47079Robert van den Berg<p>Good article. This seems like a very interesting use case for Azure. A downside is that this would mean that your disaster recovery setup would be different from your production setup.</p> <p>A detail: there is no linke to the security certifications. That looks ominous... could you provide the link? &nbsp;</p> http://sqlblog.com/blogs/buck_woody/archive/2013/01/08/microsoft-windows-azure-disaster-recovery-options-for-on-premises-sql-server.aspx#47085Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:04:39 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:47085Buck Woody<p>Sorry about that - here are the certs: <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/trust-center/compliance/">https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/trust-center/compliance/</a> </p>