A selection of news about the Windows Azure platform for November
Due to the workload in preparation for the TechEd Russia 2012 conference, there was little time to publish announcements and news around the Windows Azure platform. In this post I would like to catch up and bring a selection of the most significant news in recent times.
Analytical company Forrester has published the results (pdf) of cloud database management systems research. According to the study, Windows Azure SQL Database is currently the leader among similar systems.
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Here is the company's conclusion on the Microsoft cloud platform: “Microsoft offers the most complete cloud solution.” Read more in the published study (pdf).
Important announcements were made on November 13 in the Windows Azure team blog: the cloud platform will soon have opportunities to deploy systems with a large memory consumption for complex computational tasks (Big Compute).
In a short time, Windows Azure clients will be able to get at their disposal two new configurations of instances and virtual machines: 8 cores with 60 GB of memory and 16 cores and 120 GB of memory. Each of these virtual machines will have the following specifications:
The developers of the Windows Azure platform tested the new features, forming a cluster of 8064 cores, which showed remarkable performance in 151.3 TFlops, hitting 165th place in the world famous TOP500 supercomputers .
Other examples of practical use of Windows Azure for loaded computing were given in the blog : scaling the molecular dynamics calculation system NAMD, MG-ALFA financial risk modeling system, insurance cost modeling for Towers Watson, genome research based on FaST-LMM algorithms .
It is expected that the new features will be available to developers in December with the release of the Microsoft HPC Pack 2012 platform.
Scott Guthrie in his blog announced the next batch of innovations in the Windows Azure administration portal. Among them:
About each of the innovations can be read in detail on the blog by Scott Guthrie.
The Windows Azure Authentication Library has been updated to easily integrate the logic for user authentication based on Windows Azure Active Directory into its client applications.
Details of the update can be found in the announcement in the blog developers .
BUILD conference is over and now anyone can look at the records of reports. Including recordings of reports devoted to the WIndows Azure cloud platform:
With all the reports of the conference you can find on this page .
In mid-November, a free web conference was held for the Windows AzureConf 2012 developer community. The conference reports are available for free viewing:
More information about the conference can be found at the following link .
Good news: virtual labs for various aspects of the Windows Azure platform are available for study and personal learning:
Analytical company Forrester called Windows Azure SQL Database leader of cloud databases
Analytical company Forrester has published the results (pdf) of cloud database management systems research. According to the study, Windows Azure SQL Database is currently the leader among similar systems.
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Here is the company's conclusion on the Microsoft cloud platform: “Microsoft offers the most complete cloud solution.” Read more in the published study (pdf).
Windows Azure Big Compute
Important announcements were made on November 13 in the Windows Azure team blog: the cloud platform will soon have opportunities to deploy systems with a large memory consumption for complex computational tasks (Big Compute).
In a short time, Windows Azure clients will be able to get at their disposal two new configurations of instances and virtual machines: 8 cores with 60 GB of memory and 16 cores and 120 GB of memory. Each of these virtual machines will have the following specifications:
- Dual Intel Sandybridge processors at 2.6 GHz
- DDR3 1600 MHz RAM
- 10 GigE network for storage and internet access
- InfiniBand (IB) 40 Gbps network with RDMA
The developers of the Windows Azure platform tested the new features, forming a cluster of 8064 cores, which showed remarkable performance in 151.3 TFlops, hitting 165th place in the world famous TOP500 supercomputers .
Other examples of practical use of Windows Azure for loaded computing were given in the blog : scaling the molecular dynamics calculation system NAMD, MG-ALFA financial risk modeling system, insurance cost modeling for Towers Watson, genome research based on FaST-LMM algorithms .
It is expected that the new features will be available to developers in December with the release of the Microsoft HPC Pack 2012 platform.
A large number of innovations in the administration portal
Scott Guthrie in his blog announced the next batch of innovations in the Windows Azure administration portal. Among them:
- The Operations Log section, with which you can access logs of completed operations and operations that were not performed due to errors;
- Monitoring SQL Database Performance Metrics
- Web Sites projects can now be published to all regions of Windows Azure
- Added support for closed GitHub and BitBucket repositories
- Added the ability to download the package and deploy the Cloud Service from the admin panel
- Added ability to configure caching in a role with cache enabled
- Added the ability to publish, encode, and play Media Services data from the administration panel.
- Ability to set Windows Azure Storage to your own domain name
- Improvements in terms of usability when creating virtual networks, simplifying the process of creating
- Usability Improvements in Creating Virtual Machines
- Localization of the portal into 6 languages ​​(unfortunately there is no Russian among them)
About each of the innovations can be read in detail on the blog by Scott Guthrie.
Windows Azure Authentication Library Update
The Windows Azure Authentication Library has been updated to easily integrate the logic for user authentication based on Windows Azure Active Directory into its client applications.
Details of the update can be found in the announcement in the blog developers .
The best video reports on Windows Azure from the Build conference
BUILD conference is over and now anyone can look at the records of reports. Including recordings of reports devoted to the WIndows Azure cloud platform:
- second day plenary report on infrastructure and cloud technologies;
- Connecting C ++ Apps to the Cloud via Casablanca
- Windows Azure Overview
- Introduction to Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Building Media Applications on Windows 8 with Windows Azure Media Services
- Advanced Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Building Big-Lessons learned from Windows Azure Customers - Part I
- Building Big-Lessons learned from Windows Azure Customers - Part II
- Developing Mobile Solutions with Windows Azure Part I
- Developing Mobile Solutions with Windows Azure Part II
- Building end-to-end apps for SharePoint with Windows Azure and Windows 8
- Windows Azure Active Directory for cloud SaaS ap
- Continuous Integration with Windows Azure Websites
- Windows Azure Internals
- Developing Big Data Analytics Applications for Windows Azure and Window
- Getting Started with Cloud Services Development
- Javascript from Windows 8, Node.js, and Windows Azure
- Windows 8 Connectathon with Windows Azure Mobile Services
- Advanced Cloud Services Development
- Data Options in Windows Azure. What's a developer to do-
- Bootstrapping your Startup with Windows Azure
- Developing for Windows Azure Web Sites and SharePoint Online
- Windows Azure Storage - Building applications that scale
- Building Hybrid Applications using the Windows Azure Service Bus
- Building data centric web application
With all the reports of the conference you can find on this page .
Windows AzureConf 2012
In mid-November, a free web conference was held for the Windows AzureConf 2012 developer community. The conference reports are available for free viewing:
- Windows Azure Overview
- Build Speedy Azure Applications with HTML 5 and Web Sockets Today
- Windows Azure Mobile Services - Backend for Your Windows 8, iOS, and Android Apps
- Solving Security and Compliance Challenges with Hybrid Clouds
- Windows Azure Services Throttling and Fault Handling
- Windows Azure + Twilio == A Happy Tale to Tell
- Elevating Windows Azure Deployments
- Building Elastic, Autoscalable Solutions with Windows Azure
- Continuous Delivery Zen with Windows Azure
- Building Cross-Platform Media Apps using Windows Azure Media Services
- Windows Azure and Embedded Devices
- JavaScript, Meet Cloud- Node.js on Windows Azure
More information about the conference can be found at the following link .
Virtual Labs
Good news: virtual labs for various aspects of the Windows Azure platform are available for study and personal learning:
- Windows Azure: Introduction to the Windows Azure Access Control New
- Windows Azure: Building and Publishing ASP.NET Applications with Windows Azure Web Sites and Visual Studio 2012 New
- Windows Azure: Debugging Applications in Windows Azure New
- Windows Azure: Connecting a PaaS Application to an IaaS Application with a Virtual Network New
- Windows Azure: Introduction to Virtual Machines New
- Windows Azure: Introduction to Cloud Services New
- Windows Azure: Introduction to SQL Database New
- Windows Azure: Advanced Web and Worker Roles New
- Windows Azure: Introduction to Virtual Machines (Linux) New
- Windows Azure: Worker Role Communication
- Windows Azure: Native Code
- Windows Azure: Exploring Storage
- Windows Azure: Running a Parametric Sweep Application with the HPC Scheduler
- Windows Azure: Running MPI Applications with the HPC Scheduler
- Windows Azure: Windows Phone and The Cloud
- Windows Azure: Building Services with PHP
- Windows Azure: Building Services
- Windows Azure: Using Tables
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/159743/
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