#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 6th March 2012

AZURE IN ACTION - HIGHLIGHTS DOWN UNDER

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

Harvey Norman

Another launch of a speciality store – Get your Travel Gear – enabled with Windows Azure

Microsoft Australia

Windows Azure Platform Product Marketing Manager (PMM) Sydney Job 

Breeze

Feature Decision Making with Hybrid IT Solutions

Romiko Derbynew

Appfabric Topics–Pub/Sub Messaging Service Bus

Microsoft Australia & Breeze

Inside Windows Azure, the Cloud Operating System

12th March 2012, 2-4pm

Windows Azure Sydney User Group

User Group March meet up will be on running 'Node.js in Windows Azure' 22nd March at 6pm

AZURE IN ACTION - WEEKLY ROUNDUP

NEWS

Windows Azure Platform

• Windows Azure Service Disruption Update/ Windows Azure Service Disruption Resolved
• Microsoft Codename "Data Hub" - An Online Service for Data Discovery, Distribution and Curation

Microsoft

Azure

• Microsoft to add another preview build, more testers for Hadoop on Azure
• Microsoft Broadens Apache Hadoop Contributions
• Windows Azure Challenge - What its all about.
• Microsoft flies high on Indian clouds with Windows Azure
• Datameer to Bring Hadoop Analytics to Windows Azure

Outage

• Gartner: Another Cloud Outage: Insight and Reactions
• Microsoft's Azure cloud leap-day meltdown
• On the Recent Windows Azure Leap Day Outage
• Azure Cloud Outage: it’s not unique, it will happen again, how to protect from it
• Microsoft Azure Leap Day Outage Questions Persist
• Windows Azure Compute Availability Logs: North and South Central US Data Centers, 2/29 and 3/1/2012

Related

• Cloud Computing to Enable Global Job Growth, According to IDC Study
• New Cloud Accounting Survey

General:

No joke: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 debuts on April Fools' Day

Case Study

• Sundance Looks to StorSimple to Simplify Its Massive Storage Needs

TECHNOLOGY

Introduction

• Windows Azure on Windows 8
• Get Started with Cloud Computing and Windows Azure

Architecture

• Importance of Affinity Groups in Windows Azure
• Doing a Multi-Cloud Deployment of an ASP.NET Web Application
• Exploring Cloud Architecture

Security

• Windows Azure Security Best Practices

Storage

• Enableing gzip compression with Windows Azure CDN through Web Role
• Everything you need to know about Windows Azure Table Storage to use a scalable non-relational structured data store
• Everything you need to know about Windows Azure Blob Storage including permissions, signatures, concurrency, …

SQL Azure

• Create a SQL Azure database
• Tips, Resources For Moving Your Database to SQL Azure

Federations

• Introduction to SQL Azure Federations
• Scale-First Approach to Database Design with Federations: Part 1 – Picking Federations and Picking the Federation Key

ACS

• Cross-post: The Windows Azure Claim Provider for SharePoint Project (Three Part Series)

Service Bus

• WindowsAzure Appfabric Topics Pub/Sub messaging demo
• Create a Continuous Client Using Portable Class Libraries

Open

• Windows Azure Storage Client for Java Overview
• Windows Azure Storage Client for Java Tables Deep Dive

DevOps

• TFS Beta Build Service on Windows Azure
• Team Foundation Server on Windows Azure Cloud – Part 3 – Administer Security

Big Data

• Running Apache Mahout at Hadoop on Windows Azure(www.hadooponazure.com)

CRM

• Windows Azure + MS CRM 2011 better together (part one)

COMMUNITY

Seminar

• How Can My Business Benefit from Windows Azure [Mar 8]
• RBA Tech Spotlight: Windows Azure [Mar 21]

User Groups

• Sydney (Conor Brady)
• Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett)
• Brisbane (Steve Nagy Dean Robertson)
• Auckland (Ryan Crawcour)
• Perth Cloud User Group (Rivaaj Jumna, Hadwin Fung)

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