#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 11th April 2012

AZURE IN ACTION - HIGHLIGHTS DOWN UNDER

Easter = Holidays in Australia!

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Brisbane User Group

Using the Windows Azure Autoscaling Application Block (WASABi) 18th April 2012

Microsoft and Breeze

Ten Must-Have Tools for Windows Azure – 1st May                         

AZURE IN ACTION - WEEKLY ROUNDUP

• Microsoft building new data center in Wyoming
• Microsoft adds two new U.S. Windows Azure datacenters

Related

• The Complex Transition to the Cloud
• Microsoft’s Certifications Reinvented for the Cloud
• Why is Big Data Revolutionary?
• Cloud Infographic: Survey Reveals A Reliance On Cloud Services

Partner:

• Accenture to Become First Global Technology Services Provider to Deliver End-to-End Public Cloud Solution on Windows Azure

TECHNOLOGY

• Increase ASP.NET temp folder size in Windows Azure
• Synchronous, Async and Parallel Programming Performance in Windows Azure

Architecture

• Building Azure Applications using Agile Methodologies and Continuous Integration
• DocShare: Illustrating the CQRS Pattern with Windows Azure and MVC4 Web API
• Exceeding the SLA–Its about resilience
• WorldSheet: A Shared Spreadsheet in the Cloud based on SignalR and Windows Azure
• Quantifying and Avoiding Risk on the Windows Azure platform 
• CQRS on Windows Azure: A discussion of implementing Command Query Responsibility Segregation on Windows Azure in .NET. Sample included.

SQL Azure

• MSDN Webcast: Cloud Computing Soup to Nuts (Part 8): Get Started with SQL Azure Reporting Services (Level 100)
• Using Data from Windows Azure Blobs with Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure CTP

DevOps

• Configure the Diagnostic Monitor from within an Windows Azure Role

• Neudesic Neuron-ESB 2.6 now provides full support for Microsoft Azure
• Fluent Azure Management v0.3 including Sql Azure management
• Paraleap’s Azurewatch introduces monitoring of SQL Azure Federations
• Three cool projects based on Azure by Microsoft Research
• Azure Cloud Director 1.0.0.61  - cloud administration software which can manage complex cloud managment operations including Single Click Azure Deployment
• Radarc – Formula Azure - lets you create an application ready for deploying in Windows Azure, just from a class diagram model

COMMUNITY

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)