
Microsoft Azure New Year Digest
Hi,
Continuing the tradition of summarizing before the New Year , we are releasing the New Year's digest in an abridged form.
2014 was a productive year for Microsoft Azure - the platform entered new markets, the leaders in PaaS, IaaS and storage, according to Gartner , there were many new services (from my favorite updates, for example, that Azure Backup now supports client versions of Windows ) . Those who followed the development of the platform could notice that in parallel with services used for corporate purposes, services began to appear that were also oriented towards the scientific environment - which only machine learning as a service and the development of HPC was worth. In 2015, we will find many more interesting things.
The rebranding of Windows Azure in Microsoft Azure has also become big news - the fact that on the Microsoft platform a huge amount of resources is used by clients from OSS, shows that the platform is not only powerful, but also open.
Under the cut you will find a short list of the main announcements with links. Also do not forget that we have a monthly news review with the tag azuredigest .

January 2014
PCI Compliance and Hyper-V Recovery Manager in GA

March 2014 Oracle Software Support in Azure - GA Windows Azure Changes Name to Microsoft Azure Azure
arrives in China
April 2014
The preview version of the new portal was released.
Support for C hef and Puppet
C announced. Major changes to websites - improved SSL support . Here are new usage plans.
Autoscale in GA
Announced support for Hadoop 2.2 in HDinsight (+ Avro library )
May 2014 Microsoft buys GreenButton - HP C- as - GA ExpressRoute service GA Azure Import / Export
Preview A the PI Management
And ntivirus-as-service for virtual machines
have mproving performance of the SQL the Database
Microsoft buys Capptain - mobile analytics
SAP certifies solutions for Azure
June 2014
Microsoft has introduced a phone support SLES 11 SP3
Azure HDInsight now supports the Hadoop 2.4 with queries 100 times faster
Azure HDInsight - Hbase clusters in the
Azure Traffic Managerpreview- load balancing on non-cloud points and weighted Round Robin
Docker- Entrance to Azure
July 2014
Announcement of machine learning as a
Reverse DNS service : support in cloud services
Partnership with Google and Docker

August 2014
Azure Resource Manager Tools in preview - advanced
RavenHQ resource management - in the Azure Store
MyGet - in the Azure Store
DocumentDB - in
Azure HDInsight preview - Apache HBase support in GA
VM Depot available in virtual machine image gallery - OSSout of the box
Azure Search - in previews

September 2014
Azure Media Services - launch Live Streaming
Websites : support the V to PN
the API Managemen t in GA
Azure Media the Service: the DASH Live Streaming
October
's Elastic the Scale ( sharding ) in the preview for Azure the SQL the Database
Azure Backup: Support Windows Server 2008
Azure DocumentDB : Experience with MSN Health and Fitness
Hadoop :preview Support Storm
Azure Websites Migration Assistan t: announcement of the tool easy migration of the web - sites of IIS in the cloud
Azure Stream Analytics : processing events in real- time
in November
Azure Search: support for new languages, including Russian
Azure HDInsight : support a large number of the Hadoop - related projects, including Spark and R December modules
DockerCon Europe 2014 - important announcements from the world Docker and Azure
Azure Security - on the SSL 3.0
Premium the Storage : high-performance the SSD - disks for virtual machine
Azure HDInsight : even larger templates for projects the Hadoop - related : the S park , the R , Giraph and Solr
Happy New Year !
Continuing the tradition of summarizing before the New Year , we are releasing the New Year's digest in an abridged form.
2014 was a productive year for Microsoft Azure - the platform entered new markets, the leaders in PaaS, IaaS and storage, according to Gartner , there were many new services (from my favorite updates, for example, that Azure Backup now supports client versions of Windows ) . Those who followed the development of the platform could notice that in parallel with services used for corporate purposes, services began to appear that were also oriented towards the scientific environment - which only machine learning as a service and the development of HPC was worth. In 2015, we will find many more interesting things.
The rebranding of Windows Azure in Microsoft Azure has also become big news - the fact that on the Microsoft platform a huge amount of resources is used by clients from OSS, shows that the platform is not only powerful, but also open.
Under the cut you will find a short list of the main announcements with links. Also do not forget that we have a monthly news review with the tag azuredigest .
January 2014
PCI Compliance and Hyper-V Recovery Manager in GA

March 2014 Oracle Software Support in Azure - GA Windows Azure Changes Name to Microsoft Azure Azure
arrives in China
April 2014
The preview version of the new portal was released.
Support for C hef and Puppet
C announced. Major changes to websites - improved SSL support . Here are new usage plans.
Autoscale in GA
Announced support for Hadoop 2.2 in HDinsight (+ Avro library )
May 2014 Microsoft buys GreenButton - HP C- as - GA ExpressRoute service GA Azure Import / Export
Preview A the PI Management
And ntivirus-as-service for virtual machines
have mproving performance of the SQL the Database
Microsoft buys Capptain - mobile analytics
SAP certifies solutions for Azure
June 2014
Microsoft has introduced a phone support SLES 11 SP3
Azure HDInsight now supports the Hadoop 2.4 with queries 100 times faster
Azure HDInsight - Hbase clusters in the
Azure Traffic Managerpreview- load balancing on non-cloud points and weighted Round Robin
Docker- Entrance to Azure
July 2014
Announcement of machine learning as a
Reverse DNS service : support in cloud services
Partnership with Google and Docker

August 2014
Azure Resource Manager Tools in preview - advanced
RavenHQ resource management - in the Azure Store
MyGet - in the Azure Store
DocumentDB - in
Azure HDInsight preview - Apache HBase support in GA
VM Depot available in virtual machine image gallery - OSSout of the box
Azure Search - in previews

September 2014
Azure Media Services - launch Live Streaming
Websites : support the V to PN
the API Managemen t in GA
Azure Media the Service: the DASH Live Streaming
October
's Elastic the Scale ( sharding ) in the preview for Azure the SQL the Database
Azure Backup: Support Windows Server 2008
Azure DocumentDB : Experience with MSN Health and Fitness
Hadoop :preview Support Storm
Azure Websites Migration Assistan t: announcement of the tool easy migration of the web - sites of IIS in the cloud
Azure Stream Analytics : processing events in real- time
in November
Azure Search: support for new languages, including Russian
Azure HDInsight : support a large number of the Hadoop - related projects, including Spark and R December modules
DockerCon Europe 2014 - important announcements from the world Docker and Azure
Azure Security - on the SSL 3.0
Premium the Storage : high-performance the SSD - disks for virtual machine
Azure HDInsight : even larger templates for projects the Hadoop - related : the S park , the R , Giraph and Solr
Happy New Year !
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