Windows Azure has some updates that are available for immediate use, including a preview of the Windows Azure Scheduler Service and the Read-Access Geo Redundant Storage Option (both new) and improvements to Monitoring and Diagnostics for Azure services.
ScottGu’s Blog reports on how the Windows Azure Scheduler service allows you to create jobs that reliably call services either inside or outside of Windows Azure and run those jobs immediately, on a regular schedule or at a future date you set.
To get started with Scheduler, you need to sign-up for the preview on the Windows Azure Preview page. Once you enroll in the preview, you can sign in to the Management Portal and start using it.
On his blog, Scott Guthrie (aka ScottGu) gives step-by-step instructions on how to create a schedule job.
The blog also gives more details about how you can now always have read-access to your secondary storage replica. This means you can have immediate access to your data if there’s a temporary failure in your primary storage location (and to build-in support within your applications to handle the read fail-over automatically). As for the last part of this update, you can now monitor metrics for the CPU and IO activity of Premium SQL databases, and the storage activity of both Premium and Standard databases.
Find out much more about this update on ScottGu’s Blog.
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Athima Chansanchai
Microsoft News Center Staff