#Azure Action –Weekly Newsletter - 8th October 2010
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Overview
- Fujitsu to Bring Windows Azure to Australia in 2011
- Local Enterprise TAP for SQL Azure
- September update to Windows Azure Platform Training Kit
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Readiness:
“Understand the Hood: Inside the Windows Azure Hosting Environment”
SQL readiness:
- SQL Azure Best Practices and Code
- See here for SQL Azure case studies and here for the new videos
- SQL Azure Papers
- cloudcovershow SQL Azure with David Robinson.
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In the news:
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Events:
Windows Azure Platform - Acceleration Discover Event – Nov/Dec
Azure Readify RDN days – October
Community:
Are people interested in an Azure User Group? If so please contact me!
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Guidance
I’m building a resources and tooling guide. Let me know if this is useful I should continue to expand….
| I’m discovering Azure | I’m planning for Azure | I’m learning Azure | I’m developing Azure | I’m deploying Azure |
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Case study Cloud strategy Roadmap |
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Windows Azure Tools for VS 2010 Windows Azure Software Development Kit Tools for Windows Azure Storage |
Scale - multi-tenant highly-scalable line-of-business application |