SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Iron.io is
pleased to offer IronWorker as an Application Service within the
Azure Marketplace, providing a key infrastructure component that
gives developers immediate access to highly scalable event-driven
computing services. Almost every application in the cloud needs to
process workloads on a continuous basis, at scale, on a schedule,
or in the background. IronWorker is a modern application
development platform for processing at a task level by isolating
code packages and dependencies in a containerized compute
environment managed by Iron.io.
Developers can use IronWorker to develop scalable distributed
cloud architectures from the start, turn custom client-server
applications into cloud-based microservices, serve as a mobile
compute cloud, or incorporate highly concurrent workload processing
into their applications without the need for complex orchestration,
overhead, and maintenance.
By collaborating with Iron.io, Microsoft gives its customers
flexibility in their application architectures and cloud
migrations. By making use of IronWorker's multi-language support,
enterprise organizations can move individual components to the
cloud while maintaining safe and secure application environments.
IronWorker can also act as a key processing gateway to Azure
component services including storage, queues, mobile services, and
more, making it easy to create hybrid solutions of existing
client-server applications and cloud-based microservices.
Modern Cloud Solutions
IronWorker provides developers a friendly environment for
handling a variety of event-driven asynchronous processing use
cases including streamlined ETL pipelines, processing large files
and big data sets, sending email and notifications in bulk, and
more. By extending these capabilities to Azure, Microsoft customers
can move much of their scale-out tasks to the cloud in an efficient
and easy to use manner.
Iron.io leverages Docker as its core task processing
environment, and has launched over 500 million containers since
moving its capabilities into production earlier in the year. The
IronWorker platform currently offers over 15 different Docker-based
environments for specific language versions and essential libraries
with additional capabilities coming soon.
Iron.io and Microsoft
"Microsoft has built a world-class computing platform in Azure,"
said Chad Arimura, CEO, Iron.io.
"Iron.io brings to Azure a proven technology that provides an
immediate way for Microsoft customers to migrate applications and
services into the cloud as well as provide revolutionary component
technology that lets them extend their use of the cloud even
further."
"Through our expansive ecosystem, we are providing customers
with the solutions they need to deploy their critical applications
seamlessly in the cloud and create hybrid connections with
on-premises," said Corey Sanders,
Director of Program Management, Microsoft Azure. "Building on our
great Docker support in Azure, we are excited IronWorker is now
available in the Azure Marketplace, to simplify deployment of the
fantastic event-driven and processing technology created by
Iron.io."
Getting Started With IronWorker on Azure
Users of Azure are today able to add IronWorker as a service by
visiting the Marketplace. Developers can then write and package
task code for deployment to IronWorker's processing environment
within Azure. The Iron.io dashboard built into Azure provides
detailed insight into the state of your tasks for monitoring your
complete application activity and performance.
IronWorker is currently available in the West US region of
Azure, and supports multiple languages including Go, Java, Ruby,
PHP, Python, Node.js, and .NET.
About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide
leader in software, services, devices and solutions that help
people and businesses realize their full potential.
About Iron.io
Iron.io is the maker of IronWorker, a scalable task processing
platform, and IronMQ, an industrial-strength message queue.
Iron.io's products are designed for building distributed cloud
applications quickly and operating at scale in public and private
clouds. Founded in 2010, Iron.io is a private company headquartered
in San Francisco, CA. To learn
more, please visit www.iron.io.
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