Compute

With the Azure mobile app, you can check status and critical metrics of your Azure resources, get notifications and alerts, and perform simple operations to resolve common issues.

Here's a summary of recent updates to Azure Batch.

N-series and H-series VMs can now be used with Azure Batch.

Capabilities have been added to the Azure Batch service: Linux VM support (general availability), Linux MPI, task application packages, virtual network support for Windows VMs, and job auto-completion.

The new Dv2 instances carry the same CPU, memory, and disk configurations as the current D-Series, but they offer more powerful CPUs and run about 35 percent faster.

New capabilities added to Azure Batch include support for application packages, Linux compute nodes, and task dependencies; client libraries for Python, Java, and Node.js; and an improved portal experience.

The new generation of D-Series instances is available in Japan West. These Dv2 instances offer more powerful CPUs and run about 35 percent faster than the current D-Series.

The Azure Batch service has added Linux VM support.

Azure Batch Service has added MPI and offline node support.

A new generation of D-Series instances can be used as VMs or Azure Cloud Services. These DV2 instances offer more powerful CPUs and run about 35 percent faster than the…

Azure Batch makes it easy to run large-scale parallel and high-performance computing workloads in Azure.

Azure Batch Service added Job Preparation and Release Task Support

Now you can assign more than one load-balanced public IP address to a set of virtual machines, enabling high-availability and high-scale scenarios.

Azure PowerShell includes new capabilities to manage Azure Batch services.

The Batch client library for .NET is updated to 1.2.0 to use Azure Storage Client Library 4.0.0.

The Batch client library for .NET is updated to fix some major customer issues.

The Azure Batch Explorer sample is updated with a new work item view and improved performance.

Azure AD Connect Health helps you monitor your on-premises identity infrastructure.

Azure Batch is a new platform service that enables you to run large-scale parallel and HPC applications in the cloud.

Microsoft Antimalware for Cloud Services and Virtual Machines (VMs) is now generally available to help identify and remove viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.

With Instance-Level Public IPs, you can enable scenarios such as running FTP servers in Azure and monitoring virtual machines directly using their IPs.

Azure development tooling features include support for WebJobs publishing, Dev/Test environments for Mobile Services, Remote debugging for Virtual Machines, Emulator Express, and more.

This Azure PowerShell release includes Compute, SQL Database, and Windows Azure Pack updates.

We’ve added support for reverse DNS for all Azure Cloud Services at no additional cost!

New support for Managed Cache, Azure Automation, Traffic Manager and the Anti-Malware Cloud Service extension.

Reserve public IP addresses and use them as virtual IP (VIP) addresses for your applications.

Microsoft Antimalware offers customers the ability to install an antimalware agent for both PaaS roles and virtual machines

Load-balance Azure (VMs) with private IP addresses within a virtual network.

Mount a shared file system and access it from various virtual machines in an Azure datacenter.

The April 2014 Guest OS release (versions 4.7, 3.14, 2.26, and 1.34), which incorporates all the latest MSRC updates, started release on May 2 and completed today May 6.

The new GA release of Autoscale includes performance- and schedule-based scaling, and you can customize it to scale based on metrics you define.

This Preview release includes support for Azure Resource Manager.

New management libraries include an SDK that automates how you provision and manage Azure assets.

This post describes Azure Service Health Notifications (also known as Incident Notifications) within the Azure Management Portal.

A8 and A9 feature 8 virtual cores with 56 gigabytes (GB) or 16 virtual cores with 112 GB of memory. They include faster processors and more virtual cores for higher…

Azure ISO Certification expanded to include SQL Database, Active Directory, Traffic Manager, Web Sites, BizTalk Services, Media Services, Mobile Services, Service Bus, Multi-Factor Authentication, and HDInsight.