#Azure Action - Community Newsletter - 27th January 2012
AZURE IN ACTION - HIGHLIGHTS DOWN UNDER
NEWS
TECHNOLOGY
COMMUNITY
Adelaide City Council
Adelaide 247 City Sourced Providing citizens with a way to log incidents to the council
Mexia receive Windows Azure CAT Award
@deanrobertson & @benjaminify, recognised as world experts in BizTalk integration with the Windows Azure ServiceBus
Imagine Cup
Azure Powers Winning Solutions at Imagine Cup
Cloud Trading Technologies
Expands into Asia to support demand for Cloud delivery of Trading and Risk Applications
expanzPLATFORM Architecture Video Released
Melbourne Windows Azure Meetup
Webinar: SQLCAT: Let's Move to the Cloud - How to Leverage Microsoft SQL Azure
Tuesday, 31 January 2012 2:00 PM AEST
Brisbane Azure User Group First Meeting
Hold the date for 15th February 2011
AZURE IN ACTION - WEEKLY ROUNDUP
NEWS
Windows Azure
- SQL Azure Data Sync Preview Refresh
- SQL Azure Import/Export Service now in production
- Windows Azure Traffic Manager. Programmatic geo-redundancy for your cloud deployment
- Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Version 1.2.2 Released
- Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets 2.2 Released
Partners
- Geminare, a leader in the Recovery as a Service (RaaS) industry, announces Windows Azure strategic alliance
- OpenText Brings Business Process Solutions to Windows Azure
- SendGrid Launches on Windows Azure Enterprise Cloud Platform
Microsoft
Case Study
- Azure Storage Blobs Service Working with Directories
- Using Windows Azure to create MicroFinance
- Windows Azure App Helps Americans Living Abroad Vote in U. S. Elections
General
- Why you can't afford to resist the cloud
- The Patriot Act is No Excuse To Avoid Cloud Computing
- Whitepaper: Seven Habits of successful cloud architects
TECHNOLOGY
Introduction
- Getting Started with Windows Azure
- Taking a Fresh Look at the Windows Azure Development Experience
- Creating a Windows Azure Application: A Step-by-Step Guide
Storage
- Improving Performance by Batching Azure Table Storage Inserts
- Making Windows Azure Drive Letter Persistent
- Cannot create database DevelopmentStorageDb20110816 for the Windows Azure Storage Emulator
- 8 Essential Best Practices in WindowsAzure Blob Storage Azure
Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting Best Practices for Developing Windows Azure Applications
- Windows Azure Troubleshooting - Taking specific Windows Azure Instance offline
Open
- Creating Hello World Windows Azure Node.js Web Application
- Node.js and Windows Azure: Creating a blog application using Node.JS and Windows Azure Table & Blob Storage Part 1
SQL Azure
- The Cloud Numerics Programming and runtime execution model
- Cloud Cover Episode 68 - Throttling in SQL Azure with Scott Klein
Federations
- How much overcapacity are you running with today? I bet SQL Azure Federations can trim that!
- Fan-out Querying for Federations in SQL Azure (Part 2)
Service Bus
- How to Choose Between Windows Azure Queues, Windows Azure Service Bus Queues
- New Azure ServiceBus Demo Available
Big Data
HPC
Hadoop
- Connecting PowerPivot to Hadoop on Azure
- Creating your own Hadoop cluster on Windows Azure by using your own Windows Azure Subscription account
- Setting Windows Amazon S3 (s3n://) as data source directly at Hadoop on Azure (hadooponazure.com) portal
- Microsoft's plan for Hadoop and big data
- Microsoft cloud service lets citizen developers crunch big data
DevOps
- Automating Builds for Windows Azure Packages
- Accessing Windows Azure REST APIs with cURL
- NuGet Packages for Windows Azure and Windows Phone Developers
Labs
Tools
- Windows Azure on Cloud9! - online environment for development of JavaScript and HTML5 applications
- Windows Azure Libraries and Special Free Pricing Using SendGrid for Windows Azure Customers
COMMUNITY
User Groups
- Sydney (Conor Brady)
- Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett)
- Brisbane (Steve Nagy Dean Robertson dean@mexia.com.au)
- 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