[awips2-users] Unidata EDEX Azure Cloud Server to shut down Feb 10

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• Subject: [awips2-users] Unidata EDEX Azure Cloud Server to shut down Feb 10
• From: Michael James <mjames@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 13:27:30 -0700

Hello AWIPS II users,

Many of you know that Unidata has offered an EDEX server in the cloud (
edex-azure.unidata.ucar.edu) for 14.2.1 beta testers.  This server was
funded by a short Microsoft grant, a situation that allowed us to offer
live data to our users and evaluate the performance a system at this scale.

I'm sorry to announce that the Azure cloud server will shut down tonight,
February 10, until further notice.

We are discussing alternative ways to provide a testing server to AWIPS II
users, but until the next step is determined, sites will have to install
and configure their own EDEX servers and direct their CAVE clients locally.

Thank you for your participation and continued interest in AWIPS II.  One
last bit of news is that  14.4.1 is being prepared for release in the
coming months.  A release notice will be posted to this list when it is
available.


Michael James
Unidata Program Center
Boulder, CO