#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 28th February 2012
AZURE IN ACTION - HIGHLIGHTS DOWN UNDER
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NEWS
TECHNOLOGY
COMMUNITY
BizSpark Plus
Microsoft gives Aussie startups a boost to the cloud Australian Developers in Action
- Adrian Brenton of Janison
- Steve Orenstein at My Casting Net
- James Coenen-Eyre from Bondi Geek
- Dean Robertson at Mexia
Mick Badran
Microsoft Australia & Breeze
How the Cloud can help you integrate. 29th February 2012
Inside Windows Azure, the Cloud Operating System
12th March 2012, 2-4pm
Windows Azure Sydney User Group
User Group March meet up will be on running 'Node.js in Windows Azure' dates to be confirmed.
AZURE IN ACTION - WEEKLY ROUNDUP
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NEWS
Windows Azure Platform
- StreamInsight in Windows Azure: Austin February CTP
- Updated Windows Azure SDK & Windows Azure HPC Scheduler SDK
- SQL Azure MP CTP is now available
Microsoft
Related
Case Study
General
- Moore’s (Traffic) Law – data grows linearly with processing power
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TECHNOLOGY
Introduction
- Step by Step Guide to Create First Windows Azure Application
- How can you make money with Azure and make your users sign up with no hesitation?
- Azure Datacenter IP Ranges
- Auto-Scale Windows Azure Cloud Apps Using the Autoscaling Application Block
Architecture
- CQRS BUS and Windows Azure technologies
- Multi-Tenant Data Strategies for Windows Azure – Part 2
- Windows Azure using CNAME DNS records for multiple sites and SSL
- Auto updating webrole (IDynamicWebRole)
Security
- Securing the service and building trust
- Configure SSL for specific pages in Windows Azure
- Protecting Your Data in SQL Azure: New Best Practices Documentation Now Available
Storage
- Everything you need to know about Windows Azure Blob Storage including permissions, signatures, concurrency, …
- Windows Azure Storage and Concurrent Access
- Windows Azure Blob Upload Scenarios
- Cloud Storage Choices on Windows Azure
- In the Windows azure BLOB storage blocks store files
SQL Azure
- “Inside SQL Azure: Self Governing, Self-Healing, Massively Scalable Database Service in the Cloud” 12 Hours of SQL Server
- Protecting Your Data in SQL Azure
Federations
ACS
- Using Windows Azure Access Control Service to provide a single sign-on experience with popular identity providers
- Request a token from ADFS using WS-Trust from iOS, Objective-C, IPhone, IPad, Android, Java, Node.js or any platform or language
Cache
Marketplace
Open
- SAG Awards Drupal Website Moves to Windows Azure
- Node.js, Windows Azure (and socket.io)
- Windows Azure Storage for PHP Developers
DevOps
- How to use Diagnostics.wadcfg to configure Windows Azure diagnostics collection
- Setting Up Diagnostics Monitoring In Windows Azure
- Team Foundation Server on Windows Azure Cloud
- Advanced (and flexible) Configuration for Windows Azure .NET Applications(configure .Net applications running in Windows Azure in the same way you do with traditional On-Premise applications)
Big Data
Office
Social
Tools
- Using ArcGIS Server in Windows Azure
- CA ARCserve D2D On Demand service- A Hybrid Approach to Backup and Recovery in the Cloud
- ManageEngine Azure Performance Monitor Tool 1.0 freeware
- Windows Azure File Backup Service
- CloudNetCare, a solution to test the performance of Web sites
- Panda Cloud Office Protection 6.0, hosted on Windows Azure (Beta free)
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COMMUNITY
Seminar
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