Microsoft provides Azure Site Backup services with features such as application protection, alternative to tapes, consistent management, and intelligent restore. Azure Backup supports environments, including the cloud (private, hosted, and public cloud), hypervisors (Hyper-V and VMware), on-premises components (files and folders, and enterprise apps), and applications (Microsoft SQL, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft SharePoint). Azure Site recovery provides features, such as automated protection and replication of VMs, orchestrated recovery, failover and recover, and replicating workloads to Azure, which eliminates the need for a secondary data center. Site recovery provides customized tailored protection, recovery plans, orchestrated recovery, and replication flexibility. It supports the Hyper-V and VMware platforms.