#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 9th May 2012

AZURE IN ACTION – LOCAL

NEWS		TECHNOLOGY		COMMUNITY
Regional - India ICICI Bank adopts Icertis Contract Lifecycle Management Product on Windows Azure		Mick Badran   Is Windows Azure–being renamed?		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.   Mexia   Richard [Seroter] Going to Oz to Deliver an Integration Workshop 22-24th May   Microsoft and Breeze Connecting Cloud and On-Premises Applications Using Windows Azure Virtual Network June 8th 2-4pm AEST – Mick Badran

AZURE IN ACTION – IN GENERAL

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	Updates to Windows Azure Marketplace Offer More Flexibility and Opportunity
In the news	Azure The Rock Paper Azure Challenge is Back For a Spring Fling! : Windows Azure Service Name Update Windows Azure Devs Get Telephony and Text Messaging APIs Related Big Oil Goes Mining for Big Data Cloud Can Do Anything – But Can It Do Better? Announcing V1 Pseudo-Production Release - Project "a CQRS Journey" Partner Twilio Brings Cloud Communications to Windows Azure Sage partners with Microsoft Azure to target cloud market Epicor Moving Its Applications to Microsoft's Azure Cloud
Case Study	MediaValet Thrives on Microsoft’s Cloud Platform Icertis launches contract lifecycle management product on Windows Azure TechNet Radio: Inside Microsoft IT - Using Windows Azure to Build Scalable Applications and Reduce Costs Soluto, the winner of TechCrunch Disrupt for 2009,  has switched from Amazon to Azure to deliver its consumer app to more than 3 million PCs worldwide.

 

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	Brent Stineman on Azure as a Financial Institution Four Different Ways to Get Windows Azure Accounts and Services Recent Windows Azure Project Highlights: Media, Ws-fed and More…
Architecture	Cloud Cover Episode 79 - Adding Push Notifications to Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps using Windows Azure
Security	The easy way of collecting Security Logs from your Windows Azure Roles
Open	Getting Started with Windows Azure for Java Top Benefits of Running Node.js on Windows Azure Enabling a Node.js Server-Side App on Windows Azure Privacy Central Protecting Your Data Using Ruby on Windows Azure Node.js and Azure on .NET Rocks!
SQL DATABASE	Automating SQL Azure Backup using Worker role
SERVICE BUS	Windows Azure Service Bus EAI Doesn’t Support Multicast Messaging. Should It? Overview of Service Bus messaging Geo-replication with Service Bus Relayed Messages
ACCESS CONTROL	Add Authentication Options to Your Windows Azure Website
TRAFFIC MANAGER	Networking in the Cloud–Understanding Windows Azure Traffic Manager  Automated Global Deployments with Traffic Manager and PowerShell
CDN	Vodeclic migrates on the Windows Azure CDN (with open source Ruby on Rails libraries)
MARKETPLACE	Two Months of U.S. Air Carrier Flight Delay Data Available on the Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket
DevOps	How to monitor your Windows Azure application with System Center 2012 How to monitor your Windows Azure application with System Center 2012 (Part 2) Integrating Twilio with @Home with Windows Azure
Big Data	Using SQOOP for moving data between HADOOP and SQL Server
Tools	ATrak - Push files from Windows Azure Blob Storage, to Amazon S3 or Windows Folders SSDT - Makes SQL Azure Development Easy BlobShare: Corporate Filesharing with Security and Control  waz-storage1.1.2 - A simple implementation of Windows Azure Storage API for Ruby

 

                   

	COMMUNITY
Webinar	Using Mobile and Cloud to Increase Nonprofit Involvement and Donations  Wed, 05/09/2012 - 3:00pm - 4:30pm Building Windows Phone Applications Using the Fast Lane: Using RIA Services on Azure as Your Backend 05/16/12, 9:15am - 10:30am Architectural patterns for the cloud Tuesday, May 22, 2012 2:00 PM (GMT +1)
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