#Azure in Action – Community Newsletter – 4th July 2012

WINDOWS AZURE IN ACTION – LOCAL

NEWS		TECHNOLOGY		COMMUNITY
Samsung Electronics   Electronics giant chooses [Windows Azure] to meet its increasing demand for fast, reliable service for its for Smart TV Infrastructure Mr Rental Mr Rental trials Azure as Telstra cloud redundancy		No local updates noted		Developer Developer Developer Melbourne Various Azure Sessions at DDD Melbourne 28th July 2012 09:00-17:00 …Otherwise a quiet month in July. Sydney Melbourne & Brisbane meet ups back in action early August

WINDOWS AZURE IN ACTION – IN GENERAL

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	No updates this week
In the news	Press Microsoft: We tried to use Azure ourselves last year, and couldn't. But now we're fully ready to cannibalise our own server biz Microsoft focuses on Cloud Computing Disaster recovery for Windows azure Cloud Cloud Computing Forecast: Cloudy With A Chance of Fail           How the cloud hosting market is changing Old Infographic: Value of Cloud Computing Services Through the Years Partner Microsoft Supporting Symantec Cloud Security Elance and Microsoft Create New Microsoft Developers Program
Case Study	ISV Guest Post Series: Linx Powers its Point-of-Sale Systems with Windows Azure ISV Video: Lingo Jingo Language Learning Software Powered By Windows Azure          DrillBoard Worldwide Consultancy Uses Software-as-a-Service for Football Association Training System Milliman Actuarial Firm Works to Transform Insurance Industry with Cloud-based Solution

 

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	Video: The Windows Azure June 2012 Release Getting started with Azure IaaS and the new Windows Azure Portal Choices Web Sites or Cloud Services? Windows Azure Websites, Web Roles, and VMs: When to use which? Data Series: SQL Server in Windows Azure Virtual Machine vs. SQL Database
Architecture	Applying the Factory Model to Bulk Cloud Migration Windows Azure Performance: Best Practices Things I learned building OData service to Azure and using WP7 as client
DevOps	Management and Monitoring Tools for Windows Azure Visual Studio Load Testing using Windows Azure Adding Windows Azure Preview Features to Subscriptions of Multiple Accounts 1024 Words: The Devops Butterfly Effect
Open Development	General            Using Windows Azure With the Command Line Tools for Mac and Linux Python on Windows Azure – a Match Made in the Clouds! Node.JS Mixing Node.js into Your Windows Azure Solution How to paginate in Node.js using Azure Table Storage PHP Symfony on Windows Azure, a powerful combination for PHP developers Windows Azure SDK for PHP available, including support for Service Bus
VIRTUAL MACHINES	Running Redis on a CentOS Linux VM in Windows Azure SingalR with Redis Running on a Windows Azure Virtual Machine Tricks with IaaS and SQL: Part 1 – Installing SQL Server 2012 VMs using Powershell Cloning Azure Virtual Machines / Part 2 Install a new Active Directory forest in Windows Azure Resources for Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Networks
VIRTUAL NETWORK	Creating a Windows Azure virtual network with site-to-site VPN to SonicWALL
WEB SITES	Windows Azure Web Sites – Using WebDeploy without the New Tools Getting your Azure Web site to use node v0.8.1 now
MEDIA SERVICES	Getting Started with Windows Azure Media Services
STORAGE	Exploring Windows Azure Drives, Disks, and Images ASP.NET Web API and Azure Blob Storage How to Monitor and Analyze Performance of the Windows Azure Storage Service
SQL DATABASE	Doctrine supports SQL Database Federations for massive scalability on Windows Azure
SERVICE BUS	A Smart Thermostat on the Service Bus
CACHING	Session State with Windows Azure Caching Preview PHP, Memcache, and Windows Azure Caching Windows Azure Caching (Preview) and Ruby Cloud Services
Big Data	Hadoop on Windows Azure Windows Azure Recipe: Big Data Big Data in the Cloud
Labs	"Trust Services" lab update
Office	SharePoint Online & Windows Azure: Building Hybrid Applications Better together: Windows Azure, DocAve and SharePoint JSONP, SharePoint Online & Windows Azure
Books	E-Book Gallery for Microsoft Technologies          Windows Azure Prescriptive Guidance Windows Azure Service Bus Reference
Tools	Guest Post: Building Apps for Windows Azure Just Got Better With Cloud9 Overview Tour of Opstera AzureOps RES Software launches Baseline Desktop Analyzer on Azure Panda Security en Windows Azure

 

                                       

	COMMUNITY
Webinar	Webinar: Running Java on Windows Azure  Wednesday July 25th at 5.00 PM (GMT-5)
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 (to be move to Azure Web Sites!) FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list Email: Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure