Microsoft refreshes Azure cloud platform

Microsoft has its Azure cloud platform will be refreshed. According to the software giant, it is now easier to Azure to enable the running of applications and there is more support for open-source software.

Developers can use the improved Windows Azure Plugin for the open source Eclipse development platform to get started, while there is also support for MongoDB databases, the cachingsysteem Memcached and the search engine Solr. Also is there a sdk released for Node.js and can Apache Hadoop as a web server easier to be used with a number of new deployment tools.

Microsoft claims that Azure users now the cost for the cloud-computing platform better in the hand to hold by so-called spending caps to enable for large SQL Azure databases. Also, the maximum size of a database has increased from 50GB to 150GB, and is the price per database reduced to a maximum of $ 500. Also the prices for the generated data traffic can be slightly decreased in Zone 1 and Zone 2, respectively, North America/Europe and Asia.

To Azure to enable Microsoft the required number of steps is reduced to three. Also, users of the trial now spending caps on. In addition, the management environment for SQL Azure databases refreshed with a webgui that Metro seems.