#Azure Action - Community Newsletter - 20th January 2012
[A new year a new format - I hope this is cleaner and welcome your comments! -David]
AZURE IN ACTION - HIGHLIGHTS DOWN UNDER
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NEWS
TECHNOLOGY
COMMUNITY
Harvey Norman
Harvey Norman peddles GST-free computer games with Windows Azure commerce engine
Japan: Mixi
Top Social Networking Site Taps Windows Azure To Run Its Annual Online Christmas Event
Mick Badran
Azure AppFabric Labs -EAI, Service Bus in the Cloud
Tom Hollander
Building and Deploying with Azure 1.6 SDK
Melbourne Windows Azure Meetup
Webinar: SQLCAT: Let's Move to the Cloud -How to Leverage Microsoft SQL Azure
Tuesday, 31 January 2012 2:00 PM AEST
AZURE IN ACTION - WEEKLY ROUNDUP
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NEWS
Windows Azure
- Microsoft Codename Cloud Numerics
- Microsoft to enable Linux on its Windows Azure cloud in 2012?
- Eye on Earth network goes live
- Service Bus EAI and EDI Labs Released - Sign up for the labs
- Technology Preview of Hadoop-Based Service for Windows Azure Now Available CTP access
General
- Feds Refine Cloud Security Standards
- Cloud Storage Providers Industry Benchmark Report
- PHP Developer survey shows dominance of mobile, social media and cloud
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TECHNOLOGY
Architecture
Open
- How to Automatically Utilize Multicore Servers with Node on Windows Azure
- Run Lokad.CQRS code natively on Windows Azure
- How to Automatically Utilize Multicore Servers with Node on Windows Azure
- Open Source Updates for Windows Azure
SQL Azure
- SQL Azure Performance and Elasticity Guide
- Accessing Federations in SQL Azure using Entity Framework
- Upload Big Data to SQL Azure Federated Databases with BCP Automatically
Service Bus
Cache
Big Data
- Cloud Numerics Example: Distributed Numerics on Azure with F#
- Setting Windows Azure Blob Storage (asv) as data source directly from Portal at Hadoop on Azure
Operations
SCOM
- Resolving Windows Azure Diagnostics Connection String Issues with SCOM 2007 R2
- Testing Windows Azure Web Apps with Synthetic Transactions in SCOM 2007 R2
- Grooming Collected Diagnostics Data from Windows Azure Storage in SCOM 2007 R2
Diagnostics
Labs
Tools
- "SQL Azure Compatibility Assessment" Tutorial
- Cerebrata Azure Diagnostics Manager 2 (2.0.1.200)
- ACS 1.0 Migration Tool
- Azure Monitor for Windows Phone 7
Book
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COMMUNITY
User Groups
- Sydney (Conor Brady)
- Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett)
- Brisbane (register your interest #baug contact Steve Nagy)
- Auckland (Ryan Crawcour)
- Perth (details to follow)
Regional
- NZ: Follow @technetnz and follow @msdnnz
- Singapore: Singapore Azure User Group (official website)
Social
- Podcast: Listen to our CloudCast series
- FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan
- Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list
- Email: Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure