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Windows Azure news: mobile development, multi-factor authentication, MPEG-DASH, JWT, tests and video

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Dear developers and IT specialists who are interested in the topic of cloud technologies, let me introduce you to the next batch of innovations and announcements of the Windows Azure platform that have seen the light in the last two weeks.

The list of news, updates and announcements of the Windows Azure platform in this review:
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Below you will find a more detailed description of this news and announcements.

Major update for mobile app backend developers


A few days ago, Scott Guthrie in his blog presented the next batch of innovations and updates to the Windows Azure platform. This time, innovations mainly concern mobile services and will be of interest to developers of mobile applications of any platforms that use the cloud as a backend.

Among the innovations were presented the following features:


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New service multifactor authentication Active Authentication


The new Active Authentication service, introduced for the Windows Azure cloud platform, is designed to protect the user accounts and cloud services offered by Microsoft, third-party solutions, or proprietary applications and services that use the Windows Azure Active Directory cloud service as an authentication system.

Among the Microsoft applications that can benefit right now are: Office 365, Dynamics CRM Online, Windows Azure portal, and other services.

The Active Authentication service offers the ability to protect services and users with additional factors: phone calls, SMS, mobile applications, one-time secret codes.

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Test results of five cloud providers offering IaaS platform


CloudSpectrator has tested five leading providers of infrastructure services in the public cloud. Among them in testing were presented platforms: Amazon EC2, Rackspace OpenStack Cloud, HP Cloud, SoftLayer CloudLayer Compute and Windows Azure.

Testing was carried out according to two parameters: the performance of the cloud service with the monitoring of the error during the testing period and the price-performance parameter. Another goal of the test was the desire to provide the market with an understanding of what is abbreviated as ECU, HPCCU or vCPU, which vendors measure computing power.

For testing, we used a set of tools for testing the performance of servers based on Unix / Linux - Unixbench .

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MPEG-DASH standard support in Windows Azure Media Services


MPEG-DASH is an open standard for adaptive dynamic streaming of video on the Internet, which replaces Apple, Adobe and Microsoft formats that were previously used, including using plug-ins.

MPEG-DASH is a standard adopted by an ISO organization ( ISO / IEC 23009-1: 2012 ) in April 2013. Immediately after this event, Microsoft announced its intention to include full support for the standard on the Windows Azure platform in Media Services . Today, DASH is a potential adaptive broadcast standard for adoption by the W3C.

Today, Windows Azure developers can work with MPEG-DASH format for broadcasting content on demand (Video on Demand). With access to the public availability of live capabilities of Media Services, developers will be able to perform live broadcasts in this format.

And finally, MPEG-DASH is available on the Windows Azure Media Services platform through the dynamic packaging function, when the broadcast format is set on demand and is dynamically generated without prior conversion.

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Global availability of JSON Web Token (JWT) Handler


JSON Web Token (JWT) is an open standard whose specification is handled by The Internet Engineering Task Force. The JWT standard describes a compact token format intended for use in size-limited environments, such as HTTP authorization or request parameters.

With a recent update, global availability of JWT standard support in Windows Azure was announced. Now developers can use this format as a token format when working with the Windows Azure Active Directory and the Access Control Service.

This will allow developers of different platforms to more effectively use the authentication capabilities of Windows Azure. Update support for JWT has introduced a number of other innovations, which you can find out on the following link in the official blog . One of these innovations is closer integration and improved support for the Windows Identity Foundation.

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Records of DevCon 2013 and TechEd North America 2013 conferences


In late May, a large Microsoft DevCon 2013 conference was held in the Moscow region, which brought together hundreds of software developers and testers. In the framework of the main program of the conference, participants were invited to more than 60 reports, including on the topic of cloud technologies and Windows Azure.

Reports of the conference, you can view online or download the link from the site TechDays.ru . I recommend you to watch the plenary report , which opened the DevCon conference, during which the latest news on the Microsoft platform was presented. Information on all speakers can be found on the official conference website .

In early June, the largest Microsoft conference for IT professionals and developers, TechEd North America 2013 , was held in the United States, as part of which many announcements were made about the Microsoft platform. TechEd North America is hundreds of reports and labs that are published online online. Today, they are all available for viewing.

See all TechEd conference reports from Microsoft 's world technology experts at the link on Channel9 . Pay your attention to the plenary report of the conference, in which many announcements were made, including those related to the Windows Azure platform. All reports on the topic of Windows Azure, and there are more than 60 !, available at the following link .

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Do not miss


Do not miss the previous announcements of updates to the Windows Azure platform, which are released almost every week:


useful links


Below you will find links to resources that will help you in using the Microsoft cloud platform:


And if you are already developing on Windows Azure or want to find the developers of your service, visit appprofessionals.ru .

We will be happy to answer your questions at azurerus@microsoft.com . And we are waiting for you in the Windows Azure Community on Facebook . Here you will find experts (don't forget to ask them questions), photos, and lots and lots of news.

Video recordings of Windows Azure Summit reports and video interviews that were conducted during a large cloud conference.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/183932/

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