SQL with Manoj

Microsoft recently announced a first-of-its-kind Cloud experience that brings together cross-platform technologies, services and tools, enabling developers and businesses to innovate at startup speed via a new Microsoft Azure Preview Portal.

“Developing for a mobile-first, cloud-first world is complicated, and Microsoft is working to simplify this world without sacrificing speed, choice, cost or quality,” said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president at Microsoft. “Imagine a world where infrastructure and platform services blend together in one seamless experience, so developers and IT professionals no longer have to work in disparate environments in the cloud. Microsoft has been rapidly innovating to solve this problem, and we have taken a big step toward that vision today.”

Windows AZURE is now Microsoft Azure!

New Portal: portal.azure.com

–> Check in this Video the new “AZURE Portal” & how DevOps just got a whole lot more awesome:

The new “Microsoft Azure” Portal provides a fully integrated experience that will enable customers to develop and manage an application in one place, using the platform and tools of their choice. The new portal combines all the components of a cloud application into a single development and management experience.

–> New components include the following:
1. Simplified Resource Management
2. Integrated billing
3. Gallery
4. Visual Studio Online
… for more info visit Microsoft Press, [link].

–> Easily Spin-Up a new “SharePoint Farm” in minutes:

You can see here on AZURE cloud how easily and in no time you can Spin-Up a new SharePoint Farm in minutes and few Clicks:

Azure also provides you various options to select SQL Server Plans based upon your preference and budget:

Otherwise in an on-Premise environment or with any other vendor solution this would take days to setup a new Server (Hardware) with Windows Server OS, SharePoint, SQL Server, etc. installed and get things configured.

–> Spin-Up a new “SQL Database” in seconds:

Creating a new SQL Server instance is also very easy where you provide all necessary information in simple steps, like SQL Instance Name:

The new instance will be created in seconds and you can access the Instance Create Databases, Tables, Views, other DB Objects and easily Query them via SSMS.

–> Microsoft Azure Offerings:
Apart from these 2 offerings that we saw above, Microsoft Azure provides lot more that you can browse in Azure Gallery:

I’ll be exploring the new Portal as per my needs and post my experiences in coming posts, so stay tuned!