Windows Azure: Living Cells to Drive China's Public Cloud

Windows Azure is an enterprise-class cloud computing service platform from Microsoft that offers a very large amount of operational flexibility and more options for all personal and business users. At the same time, Windows Azure is also the core of Microsoft's business model transformation from traditional sales authorization to paid subscription mode. Through the Windows Azure platform, Microsoft can better provide services such as Exchange, Office and even Windows in the cloud.

Since the news that Microsoft's Windows Azure Public Cloud is about to arrive in China has passed, Windows Azure has become a hot spot for everyone. The industry attaches more importance to it than Sureface's China starting, but presumably this is also the first time that a foreign company has obtained the qualification of public cloud operation in China, and this approach may also attract more foreign manufacturers China set up cloud computing data center.

In fact, Microsoft's public cloud plan for the Chinese market has already taken shape. As early as September, Microsoft officially released Windows Server 2012 private cloud service in China. Bob Kelly, Microsoft's senior vice president of marketing for Windows Azure, said: "The release of Windows Server 2012 in China is the first step toward bringing cloud OS platforms to China." And Microsoft has also launched the Windows Azure Web site in China Registered users can get 30-day trial service can be described as a two-pronged approach.

Last Friday, Microsoft also announced a number of new Windows Azure features. The update is arguably the software giant's contribution to the development of the public cloud, as well as its impact on the availability of the Windows Azure Store to mobile services in Western Europe.

Microsoft said it plans to extend its mobile services capabilities to cover all areas that Windows Azure can manage, but it does not reveal some details of the plan. The Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, were last updated with Window Azure. These improvements provide great changes that were last updated on mobile services, web sites, media services, SQL databases, improvements to the virtual network, and subscription filtering support, all of which can be a big plus .

Windows Azure added a job scheduling function, used to regularly remove duplicate or obsolete data in the database table, you can also create a user to send push messages or short message service. This provides customers with human convenience. In addition, azure is also available through the Windows Azure Command Line Tool, which also controls online support services.

Microsoft's cloud platform adds zooming capabilities to Windows Azure's web site service, and the addition of custom-built workflow creation capabilities. The former enables a website to be used on a large scale in six shared instances, up to three in the past, and up to 10 reserved virtual machines. The latter is designed specifically for the site, you can configure the site to create part of the source code control button.

The SQL Data Synchronization feature is also turned on to allow Windows Azure users to synchronize the data they need with multiple SQL data relationships. Active Directory Access Control Management (ACS for short) is also open to enable authentication and user authorization in web applications and services.

In addition, Microsoft also media services to enhance the function, increase the tracking of progress and view the site entrance of the media encoding job history function. Performance improvements have been made to Windows Azure storage capabilities by selecting existing file and scaling encoding task processes.

This update also streamlines the virtual network creation process, with a new subscription filter user interface on the portal that is valid for multiple subscriptions.

The upgrade of this function enriched the comprehensiveness of the product and filled the wings of Windows Azure. It is also hoped that Windows Azure can bring the cloud to development by bringing active cells to the development of public cloud in China.