#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 6th June 2012

AZURE IN ACTION – LOCAL

NEWS		TECHNOLOGY		COMMUNITY
Australian National Maritime Museum   Provided HMS Endeavours coverage of the Transit of Venus with the help of Windows Azure Barnardos Readify save costs and increase the level of help provided to clients by Barnardos using the Windows Azure platform Centrebet Microsoft Windows Azure a safe bet for sports bookmaker's website with assistance from Breeze INube iNube adopts Windows Azure to strengthen Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana		LifeHacker   Learn Windows Azure And Win A Nokia Lumia 710 Smartphone. Easy and fun Windows Azure challenges ! Oh, and Lifehacker Meetups Are Back! (and photos from Brisbane here) Microsoft INFOGRAPHIC: Cloud spurs sky high job and revenue growth		Microsoft MEET WINDOWS AZURE ONLINE Your chance on June 14th to hear all the news and ask questions   MEET WINDOWS AZURE DEV CAMPS All day event in Sydney on the 19th June Register here   PLATFORM FOUNDATION EVENTS 2 day events inSydney , Melbourne , Brisbane 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	Meet Windows Azure on June 7th Meet Windows Azure, June 7: Agenda & Speaker Updates Media Services, is now live on the Windows Azure Preview Features page
In the news	Azure Office for iPad and Android: Microsoft's Azure Cloud and Thin Client the key? Microsoft exec: Windows 8 to seed cloud Windows Azure Recipe: Mobile Cloud Computing Microsoft Welcomes Linux for the New Azure Cloud Platform « The Linux Purist Related The Irish Government introduces new cloud computing standards IT Innovation Won't Be Slowed by Cloud Concerns Cloud Computing: How Marketers Are Alienating CIOs Cloud Computing: How To Sell The Change To Your IT Staff – Forbes Mobile Apps and the Cloud [INFOGRAPHIC] Infographic: Value of Cloud Computing Services Through the Years Test your Windows Azure IQ Partner Cloud and Windows Azure at HP Discover 2012 – Get in on the fun (early)
Case Study	Icertis Tackles Workflow with Windows Azure Microsoft Moves Websites to Windows Azure, Maximizes Resource Utilization, Reduces Costs Minitab Launches Qeystone into the Cloud with Windows Azure Davide Bedin Describes the aKite Retail Management Solution Partner looks to the Cloud: Telvent to Leverage Microsoft Azure (Utilities)

 

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	Excellent Windows Azure Intro Videos
Architecture	NetworkTrafficRules Schema Design Guidelines for Cloud Computing Windows Azure Solution Cookbook
DevOps	Advanced (and flexible) Configuration for Windows Azure .NET Applications
Open	Java Running Java App Jena in Azure Cloud: Part 1 Windows Azure Diagnostics for Java Windows Azure and Java Other: MongoDB Experts video series Windows Azure for PHP apps
CLOUD SERVICES	Outside-the-Box Pizza, Part 5: Hosting the Front End in the Cloud
STORAGE	Comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Google Cloud Storage
SQL DATABASE	General: SQL Azure Connection Management Wiki Updated with Throttling and Long Transaction Limits Simple .NET Database Programming using SQL Azure Configure Azure Storage Emulator SQL Server Instance Federations: Federations: Knowing When and Where to Split? A Few Handy DMVs Make That Easy!
SERVICE BUS	Using Windows Azure Service Bus for ... Things!
HPC	Big Data Creating an Interactive Hadoop on Azure Hive Table from an Amazon Elastic MapReduce Hive Output File Using Data from Windows Azure Blobs with Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure CTP
Tools	the Azure Plugin Library

 

                          

	COMMUNITY
Webinar	Get ready to meet Windows Azure on June 7th Windows 8 Developer Camp – On Demand
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