Updates Archives
Monthly updates for October 2014
Preview: Azure HDInsight delivering stream and hybrid processing
With the public preview of Apache Storm clusters, HDInsight can now also process real-time events. In addition, we’ve teamed up with Hortonworks to deliver hybrid data connectors between on-premises and cloud deployments.
Virtual Network (VNET) support for HDInsight is now generally available
Virtual Network (VNet) support for HDInsight is now generally available. In addition to HBase clusters, now you can provision Hadoop clusters in a VNet. HDInsight supports deploying only into a location-based VNet.
Updates to the Azure Mobile Services .NET backend
Azure Mobile Services has recently released several updates to the .NET backend including the following: custom scopes for authentication providers, single sign-on for Windows Store applications, CORS for SignalR, and support for Web API 5.2.
General Availability: Instance-Level Public IPs
With Instance-Level Public IPs, you can enable scenarios such as running FTP servers in Azure and monitoring virtual machines directly using their IPs.
Organize your Azure resources with tags
Use tags to categorize and manage related Azure resources across resource groups and subscriptions.
General Availability: Azure Site Recovery replication to Azure
Now you can replicate the Hyper-V virtual machines running in your datacenter to Azure for disaster recovery protection—and recover them there, as needed.
Updates to Service Bus pricing
In July 2014, we announced changes to Service Bus Queues and Topics, with messaging now offered in Basic and Standard tiers. These new tiers provide price flexibility that better accommodate different use cases. Updated pricing for these changes will be effective starting November 1, 2014, and not October 1, 2014, as previously communicated.
Protect and recover your production workloads in Azure
With Azure Site Recovery, you can protect and recover your production workloads while saving on capital and operational expenditures.
Azure SQL Database modified server quota policy
With the general availability of the Basic, Standard, and Premium service tiers, the SQL Database now has a quota of 1,600 DTUs for Basic, Standard, and Premium databases.
Preview: Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale
Target availability: Q3 2015
The new Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale APIs simplify the process of scaling out (and in) a cloud application’s data tier by streamlining development and management.
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