Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 7th November 2012

WINDOWS AZURE IN ACTION – LOCAL

NEWS		TECHNOLOGY		COMMUNITY
StorSimple Devices arrive in Australia. See how in 10 minutes you can reduce your storage operational costs by 80% Breeze   Centrebet - Cloud Integration – Case Study		Aidan Casey   Hybrid on premise / cloud architectures with the azure service bus relay Ben Simmonds   Securing Web API REST services with ADFS and ACS		Sydney Big Data Analytics Meetup   Wednesday, November 14, 2012. 6.30pm Big Data and BI working together Melbourne Windows Azure Meetup Thursday, November 15, 2012. 5.30pm Introduction to Windows Azure Websites Windows Azure Dev Camps Brisbane 19th November 2012 Training Workshops Sydney – 26th-28th November 2012 Brisbane – 10-12th December 2012 New Zealand – Open Source   Running Open Source? Consider Windows Azure at this event in Wellington on November 27th New Zealand Training Spend Two Days with Windows Azure Wellington 3rd and 4th December 2012 Auckland 5th and 6th December 2012

                                 

WINDOWS AZURE IN ACTION – IN GENERAL

NEWS

Windows Azure Platform

• What’s new
• Microsoft brings Windows Azure Cloud to China
• Announcing: New System Views for Windows Azure SQL Database
• Windows Azure Storage Client Library for Windows Runtime
• Windows Azure’s Flat Network Storage and 2012 Scalability Targets

• Team Foundation Service is Released!

In the news

Press                  

• Microsoft Enhances Developer Tools with Windows Azure Cloud App Store
• You’re running out of excuses to not try Microsoft Windows Azure
• Microsoft Brings Windows Azure, Office 365 to China 
• Now that Halo 4 will run on Windows Azure, what’s next?
• Is “Cloud TV” coming to Microsoft?

Cloud                  

• Cloud Computing Spotlight: Taxation
• IT security fails to keep pace with the rise of cloud computing

Partners

• Microsoft picks Revera for hybrid cloud

Case Study

• Urban Airship Unveils Beta Push Messaging Service for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Powered by Windows Azure

 

	TECHNOLOGY
	What is Windows Azure and Why is it in the Cloud?  (old, cheesy but worth repost)
	Windows Azure Internals High Availability for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS in the Cloud
	Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java – November 2012 Preview Node.js Love w/ PaaS: Part 1 - Deploying on Azure
	Trustworthy Computing - Cloud
Features
	Installing HDInsight (Hadoop) [on-premises verion] on a single Windows box
	Building Rich Media Applications on Windows 8 with Windows Azure Media Services
	Custom Search with Azure Mobile Services in JavaScript BUILD 2012: Microsoft demos simple cloud-enabling of mobile apps with Azure Mobile Services Building out Mobile Services support to Windows Phone 8 Windows Azure Insider - Windows Azure Mobile Services: A Robust Back End for Your Device Applications Developing Mobile Solutions with Windows Azure Part I (Channel 9)
	Episode 93 - Real-World Windows Azure with Mural.ly Top 5 Cool New Things with Windows Azure Web Sites How Windows Azure Web Sites saved my marriage from a crisis!
	Advanced Windows Azure IaaS – Demo Code My first Windows Azure virtual machine
	Microsoft Virtual Networking Windows Azure video
Core Services
	Microsoft shares considerations for extending AD into Windows Azure Provisioning a Windows Azure Active Directory Tenant as an Identity Provider in an ACS Namespace Securing Web API REST services with ADFS and ACS
	BizTalk Server 2013 Beta includes new out-of-the box adapters to send and receive messages from Windows Azure Service Bus.
	Windows Azure Service Bus Duplicate Detection Hybrid on premise / cloud architectures with the azure service bus relay
	Announcing: New System Views for Windows Azure SQL Database Microsoft Access 2013: A Cool New Rapid Development Tool for the Cloud build applications on SQL Database (or SQL Server 2012) without writing code
	Windows Azure Storage Client Library for Windows Runtime Windows Azure’s Flat Network Storage and 2012 Scalability Targets Windows Azure Storage Emulator 1.8 Known Issues for Windows Azure Storage Client Library 2.0 for .NET and Windows Runtime HOW TO: Copy files between Windows Azure storage accounts
Other
	Team Foundation Service is Released! Kicking the tires on Azure application monitoring with System Center 2012 More PowerShell Goodies
	Dun & Bradstreet Provides Windows Azure™ In-house Developers with On-demand Corporate Data for Cloud-based Apps
	Windows 8 – Azure DIagnostics VIewer

                                                                                 

	COMMUNITY
Build	BUILD 2012 Delivers all of BUILD 2011's Promises, and More Build 2012: Conference with many new videos to Windows azure 3 great things we saw at BUILD 2012
Live	A Windows Azure Community Event
Webinar	Windows Azure in the Real World – November 8th 10am GMT Java fast food for thought: running Java code on Windows Azure - Thursday, November 29, 2012 6:30 PM GMT+1

LOCAL GENERAL
User Groups	Sydney (Conor Brady/ Ershad Nozari) Melbourne (Mahesh Krishnan and Chris Padgett) Brisbane (Dean Robertson) Auckland (Ryan Crawcour) Perth Cloud User Group (Rivaaj Jumna, Hadwin Fung) Regional NZ: Follow @technetnz @msdnnz Singapore: Singapore Azure User Group (official website)
MVPs	Check in on what MVPs around Australia & New Zealand are up to
Social	Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan Links: Windows Azure developer jump site for Australia