Dec 27, 2011
Microsoft updates Azure with SDK and Hadoop preview
Microsoft has updated Azure in time for Christmas, with new tools for developers, reduced storage and operation costs for SQL, and Redmond’s promised integration with Hadoop as a limited preview for those who’ve been not naughty but nice.
For developers, Azure now has access to libraries for .NET, Java, and Node.js, hosted on GitHub, under the Apache 2 open source license, and a new SDK for Node.js has been added, including blob, table, and queue tools for Azure storage. Redmond has also thrown in what it calls “automatic MSDN detection”, to alert developers to Azure offers – although it might also hunt down pirated subscriptions for those who’ve been naughty but not nice.
Microsoft is bolstering its open source credentials with an update to its plug-in for Eclipse with Java, adding tools such as startup scripts for popular Java servers and remote Java debugging. MongoDB, Apache Solr and Lucene, and Memcached developers will also find a few new additional toys, as well.
more http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/12/microsoft_azure_hadoop_sql/