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Microsoft updates Azure, adjusts prices
Stephen Withers
Wednesday, 14 December 2011 10:12
Microsoft has rolled out a number of changes to its Windows Azure platform, including a "truly free" 90-day trial plus new price caps on large databases.
On the technical side, a new version of the Azure SDK supports Node.js, an open-source system for using JavaScript for server-side programming. Node is said to be good for developing event-driven, low-latency, concurrent applications.
Also new - though initially only as a limited preview - is an Apache Hadoop based service. Hadoop is a framework for the distributed processing of large data sets, and is used by many well-known companies including Adobe, eBay, Facebook, IBM, LinkedIn, Twitter and Yahoo.
Microsoft officials also noted a number of usability and functional enhancements to Azure's Java capabilities.
The Azure libraries for .NET, Java and Node are available under the Apache 2 open source licence.
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