Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 13th March 2013

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03/13/2013

WINDOWS AZURE IN ACTION – LOCAL

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

LifeHacker Competition:

Lifehacker And Microsoft Developer Challenge: Publish Your App, Win Big!

Mick Badran

Azure: 6 weeks of Azure (6WOA) just got even more exciting–FEZ Kits

Ken Faulkner

Created a nifty tool that moves s3 data to Windows Azure Storage. You can get binaries and source and give it a whirl

Microsoft – Emily Easterby

Melbourne | Saturday 16 March
Sydney | Friday, 22 March Brisbane | Thursday 28th March

Learn how to use the new Windows Azure features and services including Windows Azure Virtual Machines, Web Sites, and Visual Studio 2012 to build and move a variety of apps to the cloud. You will see how to build web sites, mobile applications, and enterprise-class applications.

WINDOWS AZURE IN ACTION – IN GENERAL

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	No updates published
In the news	Press Cloud computing's security pitfalls - In many cases, he said, moving to the cloud helped companies finds out what was vulnerable. Where does Microsoft expect to find its next $1 billion business? – Where I work! Microsoft eyes Amazon, wants more ‘pure Silicon Valley startups’ on Azure Cloud Cloud computing adopted by 57% of major [UK] councils The 2013 BSA Global Cloud Computing Scorecard: A Clear Path to Progress Cloud Computing for CIOs: Getting Inside the Mind of Your CFO
Case Study	Yatterbox make elections Social With Windows 8 and Windows Azure

	TECHNOLOGY
	Scaling Applications Using Windows Azure Cloud Services Poster To The Cloud(s) – Wades Post Microsoft Memo
	Recent Windows Azure Announcements Get Started with Windows Azure Cloud Computing: Basics Part-1 / Part-2 / Part-3 Video: Windows Azure 2012 Tutorial
	Microsoft promotes Mac and iOS development using Windows Azure cloud services Working with Windows Azure SQL Database in PhpStorm Useful Error Messages for Node.js Apps on Windows Azure Web Sites Cassandra with a hint of Azure – highly-scalable, NoSQL, distributed database system Linux cluster in Windows Azure Hands-On MongoDB, Windows and Windows Azure
Features
	Using Avro with HDInsight on Azure at 343 Industries Cloud Expo New York: Big Time - Introducing Hadoop on Azure Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure
Big Compute	Demo: Custom weather forecasts, computed in the Cloud
	Microsoft promotes Mac and iOS development using Windows Azure cloud services 3 Microsoft Services For Your Domain - Buy a domain and get it all set up for use with Windows Azure
	Windows Azure Mobile Services 0.2.0 Getting started with Windows Azure Mobile Services Tutorial: how to add a cloud-based backend service to a Windows Store app using Windows Azure Mobile Services Azure Mobile Services managed client – now also from NuGet After Android Support What More Do Developers Want From Windows Azure Mobile Services What Windows Azure Mobile Services can do for an app
	Introduction to WINDOWS AZURE WEB SITES aka ANTARES
	Video: Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service - audio poor Using Windows Azure Virtual Machines to Publish and Synchronize a Web Farm – instantaneous updates but using a central publishing server Windows Azure Virtual Machines - Common Issues – been there done that Running Cassandra on Azure — step-by-step, gotcha-by-gotcha
	IaaS – The changing face of Windows Azure – overview of virtual networking features
Core Services
	Encrypting messages for the Windows Azure Service Bus
	Windows Azure Blob Storage Training Webinar Series Microsoft Press has published a new Azure book: Developing Cloud Applications with Windows Azure Storage by Paul Mehner.
Other
	How To Configure Hybrid Clouds with System Center App Controller My New Whitepaper on Managing Deployments/Upgrades in Azure
	Blob Transfer Utility for Windows Azure Blob Storage -to upload and download thousands of small/large files to/from Windows Azure Blob Storage. TechNet Radio: Monitor Your Applications with Foglight for Windows Azure Applications MetricsHub, Free On Azure (older walkthrough video) Piwik (real time web analystics) Cloud Hosting on Windows Azure s3 data to Windows Azure Storage Double-Take Move Demo: VMware to Azure – nicely done Video: Monitor and auto-scale Windows Azure apps with AzureWatch - cute

COMMUNITY

Events

Global Windows Azure Bootcamp! On April 27th, 2013

LOCAL GENERAL
User Groups	Sydney (Conor Brady/ Ershad Nozari) Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett) Brisbane (Dean Robertson) Auckland (Ryan Crawcour) Perth Cloud User Group (Rivaaj Jumna, Hadwin Fung) Regional NZ: Follow @technetnz@msdnnz Singapore: Singapore Azure User Group (official website)
MVPs	Check in on what MVPs around Australia & New Zealand are up to David, Steve, Mahesh and Mick are MVPs for Australia
Social	Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list Facebook: Becoming a Facebook fan Links: Windows Azure developer jump site for Australia

Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 13th March 2013

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