Windows Azure updated for mobile and enterprise developers

Grazed from ITPRo. Author: Jane McCallion.

Microsoft has made a number of updates to its Windows Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering that it claims will reduce mobile app development time and help deliver high availability. The first of these updates is the general availability of Windows Azure Notification Hubs, which have been in testing until now.

According to a blog post by Miranda Luna of the Windows Azure Mobile Services team at Microsoft, Windows Azure Notification Hubs held mobile app developers to rapidly deliver personalised push notifications to Android, iOS and Windows devices around the world…

“Traditionally, configuring an application backend to deliver personalized push notifications with low latency at significant scale has been cumbersome and expensive,” said Luna. “Deploying a full featured push notification infrastructure involved writing code for each push notification service, building your own personalization system and then spinning up hundreds of virtual machines in parallel to enable low latency,” she added…

Read more from the source @ http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/paas/5914/windows-azure-updated-mobile-and-enterprise-developers