Azure Event Hubs Brokers Events at High Scale

Azure Event Hubs became generally available in Oct. 2014, providing a brokering service for ingesting events from sources such as mobile and embedded devices and applications. For example, events may include telemetry data from hardware such as manufacturing equipment, elevators, and automobiles, and feature usage and problem reports from deployed applications. Event Hubs can provide a solution for sources that produce events on the order of millions per second. The events are stored by the service before they are transferred to long-term storage and processed by systems such as analytics tools. However, some expected capabilities are not yet available.

Azure Provides Economy of Scale, Elasticity

Applications and connected devices are increasingly implemented to produce event data describing their usage and status. This data is expected to grow substantially as intelligent embedded devices comprising the so-called Internet of Things expands. Event data is a major contributor to Big Data that organizations may monitor in real time or process using mechanisms such as Hadoop and machine learning to derive insights and predict future outcomes.