Microsoft made a few somewhat under-the-radar storage announcements this previous week.
In the Combine ten conference,
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, throughout one of the periods, the SQL Azure crew announced that existing SQL Azure consumers will likely be offered entry towards the SQL Azure fifty GB preview on the request foundation. Microsoft isn;t yet sharing availability or pricing details for the 50 GB option, but a spokesperson stated they;d share these details “inside the coming months” as part with the next SQL Azure service update. (Thanks to OakLeaf Systems; blogger Roger Jennings for your heads up on this one.)
On the cloud-hosted Exchange front, Microsoft also introduced 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 current 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.)