Microsoft Azure starts supporting Python and Ruby on Rails

How should Microsoft Windows Azure be defined? This is not an easy question to answer, and now it seems more so, and recently Microsoft has added new online services to Azure. Compared to other cloud platforms, the previous Azure short board is embodied in the service of online building applications. But this week Microsoft has made up for the lack of azure, and Microsoft has released a series of cloud services.

Microsoft is also integrating more and more development tools into its own platform, allowing developers to run their favorite services more freely. This series of initiatives suggests that Microsoft is challenging cloud platforms such as Amazon.

Microsoft is becoming more open than ever. In addition to its own. NET, it is now possible to run Java, Python, Ruby on Rails, and applications written in PHP on Azure. At the same time Azure has adopted open source platforms such as Node.js and Hadoop.

Currently Azure can deploy and run Windows Server and Linux virtual machines within minutes. Migrate workloads without changing existing code. Securely connect an internal enterprise network to a virtual machine running in a public cloud. Windows Azure offers fully compliant, enterprise ready Hadoop services. Queries SQL databases, semi-structured data sources, and unstructured data sources. Azure provides simple management and integration with Active Directory and System Center.

Microsoft's Hadoop version is currently evolving into the "Customer Technology Preview" phase. This means that Microsoft is evaluating the customer base and expects the official edition to be launched in mid-2012. Microsoft's Hadoop is based on the Windows Server platform or on Microsoft Cloud Platform Azure.

In the 2.0 release, the product core includes MapReduce, HDFS, and Hadoop components pig and hive. Microsoft's goal is to be compatible with all Hadoop components. Components such as zookeeper, HBase, Hcatalog, and mahout in the Hadoop ecosystem are also attached to the Microsoft Hadoop version.

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Hadoop Distributed File system based on Azure also features disaster recovery. The new version also allows you to include data connected to Office SharePoint. Hadoop based on Azure can also work with the Open-source Hadoop project Mahout.