If you have watched Torsten’s recent TechEd presentation, you’ll have noticed a new offspring from the StreamInsight product unit: Project Codename “Austin”, which brings StreamInsight to the Cloud.

Project Codename “Austin” will make Microsoft StreamInsight’s complex event processing capabilities available as a service on the Windows Azure Platform. This allows Microsoft’s customers and partners to build event-driven applications where the analysis of the events is performed in the Cloud.  Such a deployment becomes relevant in scenarios where

  • event data needs to be collected from globally distributed assets or equipment such as connected cars or oil platforms
  • event data is already “born” in the cloud, like clickstream data
  • event-processing results need to be consolidated and made globally available.

Instead of pulling data into an on-premise analytics environment and then possibly distributing it again, it can be processed in the Cloud using StreamInsight’s event-driven computation framework, providing cloud computing benefits for many application scenarios in verticals such as manufacturing, oil & gas, utilities, health care and web analytics.

Project Codename “Austin” offers the same capabilities for declarative event processing to derive insight from real-time and historical event data as Microsoft StreamInsight does on premises. To facilitate migrations from on premise applications to the Cloud, Project Codename “Austin” adopts the existing .NET and LINQ-based development experience that Microsoft StreamInsight provides for on premise solutions. A StreamInsight instance in the Cloud should appear just like an on-premise instance . In addition, Project Codename “Austin” will adopt a cloud-based deployment and servicing experience.

We are doing a private CTP (Community Technology Preview) right now, working with a small group of customers and gathering their feedback for a more broadly available CTP planned for later this year.  In the meantime, we suggest trying on StreamInsight on-premises.  Go to the product main page and our MDSN portal to learn more.  Thanks, and stay tuned!

Regards,
The StreamInsight Team