Microsoft is commercializing technology it acquired earlier this year when it bought GreenButton in the form of a new Azure cloud batch service.
From All About Microsoft:
From All About Microsoft:
Azure Batch combines technology from Microsoft's May 2014 acquisition of GreenButton with Azure to create a service that will help users execute large-scale jobs in the cloud.Microsoft makes available public preview of new Azure Batch service
Batch is an infrastructure service targeted at the developers who have had to produce their own custom services, according to Microsoft execs. Microsoft will be announcing availability of the new Batch service at the kick-off keynote at Tech Ed Europe in Barcelona on October 28.
