Updates Archives
Monthly updates for February 2015
Marketplace improvements for Azure preview portal
Read about marketplace improvements for the Azure portal.
SDK support for Azure Logs
The Azure Insights NuGet package allows you to retrieve logs that are exposed in the Azure Preview Portal.
General availability: Latest service version for Azure SQL Database in Asia
This service update introduces near-complete SQL Server engine compatibility, greater support for larger databases, a new S3 performance level, and 25 percent more Premium performance for the same cost.
Full PowerShell Cmdlet Support for Azure Automation
This release adds support for 23 new Windows PowerShell cmdlets for managing Azure Automation.
Azure Backup increases features and supports additional DPM workloads
Azure Backup added support for an increased number of policies and long-term retention. Offline Backup uses the Azure Import service to reduce the time needed to load large backup copies. SharePoint, Exchange, and Windows client operating systems are supported DPM workloads that can be backed up to Azure.
Public preview: Azure Mobile Engagement
This is an SaaS-delivered, data-driven user-engagement platform that enables real-time fine-grain user segmentation, app user analytics, and contextually-aware smart-push notifications and in-app messaging across all connected devices.
Public preview: Dynamic Data Masking for Azure SQL Database
Dynamic Data Masking is a policy-based security feature that helps limit the exposure of data by returning masked data to unprivileged users who run queries over designated database fields (for example, credit card numbers).
Hadoop Connector now available for Azure Cosmos DB
The Hadoop Connector for Azure Cosmos DB allows users to perform complex analytics jobs on data within the Apache Hadoop framework.
HDInsight available on more virtual machine sizes
HDInsight is available on additional virtual machine sizes.
General availability: Apache Storm on HDInsight
Apache Storm on Azure HDInsight is available, and it makes doing real-time analytics simple.
Updated Visual Studio tools for Apache Hive
Visual Studio Tools are updated for Apache Hive.
Generally availability: Cluster scaling for HDInsight
HDInsight supports cluster scaling without deleting or re-creating the clusters.
General availability: HDInsight 3.2 supports Hadoop 2.6 and HDP 2.2
Hortonworks Data Platform 2.2 with Hadoop 2.6 is now generally available in Azure HDInsight.
General availabilty: Azure Machine Learning
This service offers cloud-based advanced analytics designed to simplify and streamline machine learning for business.
Application Insights supports collecting custom metrics and properties
Visual Studio Application Insights supports collecting custom metrics, events, and properties.
Important changes to the Web Service publishing process in Machine Learning
We updated and simplified the web service publishing workflow.
Azure Batch client library for .NET updated
The Batch client library for .NET is updated to fix some major customer issues.
New region available for Azure Automation: Japan East
Azure Automation is available in Japan with the same service-level agreement coverage that is available in East U.S., Southeast Asia, and West Europe.
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