#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
General:
No joke: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 debuts on April Fools' Day
Case Study
TECHNOLOGY
Introduction
Architecture
- Importance of Affinity Groups in Windows Azure
- Doing a Multi-Cloud Deployment of an ASP.NET Web Application
- Exploring Cloud Architecture
Security
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
Federations
- Introduction to SQL Azure Federations
- Scale-First Approach to Database Design with Federations: Part 1 – Picking Federations and Picking the Federation Key
ACS
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
CRM
COMMUNITY
Seminar
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