Microsoft made a couple of somewhat under-the-radar storage announcements this past week.
At the Blend 10 conference, throughout among the sessions, the SQL Azure crew introduced that current SQL Azure consumers will likely be provided access to the SQL Azure fifty GB preview on a request basis. Microsoft isn;t but sharing availability or pricing particulars for your 50 GB alternative, but a spokesperson stated they;d share those details “inside the coming months” as part of the next SQL Azure service update. (Thanks to OakLeaf Systems; blogger Roger Jennings for that heads up on this one.)
On the cloud-hosted Exchange front,
Windows 7 Product Key, Microsoft also announced this week that it has increased the size of Exchange Online default mailboxes from 5 GB to 25 GB.
“This 5x increase is free of charge and automatically implemented on new users.You can increase existing users to 25GB if you need as your overall allocation for mailboxes has been increased to (25GB x number of users) instead of (5GB x number of users),” explained company officials in a blog posting this week. (I found that posting via Ars Technica.)