#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 2nd May 2012

AZURE IN ACTION – LOCAL

NEWS		TECHNOLOGY		COMMUNITY
Microsoft Australia How 20 great Australian ISVs are using Windows Azure to build new products and businesses Essar Essar [India] unleashes cloud power with Windows Azure		{no updates this week}		Microsoft Switched on Briefings - Extending your Business with Hybrid Cloud Solutions. Its best suited for CIO’s, Enterprise Architects and Developer Leads – Signup here. 16th –24th May in your city.   Microsoft and Breeze Managing Windows Azure Applications  May 4th 2012 @ 2-4 pm AEST Mexia   Richard [Seroter] Going to Oz to Deliver an Integration Workshop 22-24th May

AZURE IN ACTION – IN GENERAL

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	Cloud Ninja Multi-Tenant Metering Block (CNMB) . Live Demo here and download full source code from CodePlex. Windows Azure Guest OS 1.18 (Release 201202-01) : Windows #Azure Guest OS 2.10 (Release 201202-01) : Windows Azure Achievements for Visual Studio Casablanca, a Native Library to Access the Cloud From C++  Native Windows Azure Libraries and Special Free Pricing using Twilio for Windows Azure Customers
In the news	Azure Say Hello to Windows Azure, The World’s Most Misunderstood Cloud                  Related National glory in Microsoft Imagine Cup for StethoCloud Environment Energy efficient Data Center ≠ Green Data Center Cloud computing has a substantial footprint
Case Study	Spotlight: Vishwas Lele on Getting Started with Azure Development MediaValet Thrives on Microsoft's Cloud Platform Israel based startup Soluto.switched from Amazon to Azure to deliver its consumer app to more than 3 million PCs worldwide

 

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	What I Learned Building a Startup on Microsoft Cloud Services: Part 12 – Your Customers are my Customers
Compute	Adding SMS notifications to your Windows Azure projects
Storage	Simple Capped Exponential Back-Off for Queues CloudDrive: Possible Data Loss when calling Create() or CreateIfNotExist() on existing drives CloudDrive::Mount() API takes a long time when the drive has millions of files Windows Azure Storage for the ASP.NET Developer
Architecture	Top 7 Concerns of Migrating an ASP.NET Application to Windows Azure
Security	Cloud Cover Episode 78 - Windows #Azure Security and Compliance :
Open	Introducing CloudNinja for Java - a multi-tenant reference application designed to help the Java community develop Java applications for Windows Azure IKVM.NET (Java VM implemented in .NET)
SQL Azure	How to Connect to SQL Azure through SQL Server Management Studio 2008 (SSMS 2008) SQL Azure Backup Infrastructure
Service Bus	Fun with the Service Bus (Part 1)  Implementing Pub/Sub Applications with SignalR PowerShell: Automate Windows Azure Service Bus queue creation
ACS	Windows Azure Access Control Service-Understanding the Security Buzzwords Automatic Migration of Access Control Service Version 1.
Traffic Manager	Networking in the Cloud–Understanding Windows Azure Traffic Manager  Automated Global Deployments with Traffic Manager and PowerShell
Marketplace	Creating a Private Data Marketplace with Microsoft Codename “Data Hub”
DevOps	Manage Staging Deployments in Microsoft Windows Azure
Big Data	Apache Hadoop for Windows azure - MapReduce using c#
Labs	Tour of “Cloud Numerics” Linear Algebra Library
Tools	Scale to Cloud Reporting with Azure and Syncfusion's RDL Report Viewer

 

                 

	COMMUNITY
Webinar	Using Mobile and Cloud to Increase Nonprofit Involvement and Donations  Wed, 05/09/2012 - 3:00pm - 4:30pm
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