#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 28th March 2012

AZURE IN ACTION - HIGHLIGHTS DOWN UNDER

NEWS		TECHNOLOGY		COMMUNITY
Open Text Opens up for business in Australia Stealth Secure Sharepoint storage packs now available for Australia in 41 and 63TB sizes.   Breeze Continues its Windows Azure Airlift 1 day training         Microsoft Asustalia Switched On Briefing coming to a city near you in May		David Burela Much anticipated book from Aussie Azure early adopter Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration Romiko Derbynew address performance issues with Neo4j in combination with Windows Azure		Melbourne User Group April – exact date to be announced Microsoft and Breeze   Ten Must-Have Tools for Windows Azure April 3rd, 2-4 pm Sydney User Group Slides from March meeting

AZURE IN ACTION - WEEKLY ROUNDUP

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	Microsoft Endpoint Protection for Windows Azure CTP an anti-malware anti-virus module for your roles
In the news	Azure Free Techila to Azure Universities (get in before June) Microsoft Plans Q4 Debut for Dynamics ERP on the Azure Cloud Klout is making its bed with Hadoop and … Microsoft Microsoft tosses Simpana Azure salad, feeds it to cloud punters The Future of Microsoft Windows Azure Related Windows Server 8: Microsoft Online Backup Service Git support on Codeplex Microsoft extends app building to the cloud – An Extension to Team Foundation Service Microsoft! scoops! Yahoo!'s big! data! brain! Partner: Invensys announces alliance with Microsoft to accelerate Azure development Infogroup Targeting Solution's Infoconnect Moves to the Cloud With Windows Azure
Case Study	Movideo Undertakes a Large Scale Java Transition to Windows Azure Invensys’ Alliance with Microsoft to Help Accelerate Windows Azure Development

 

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	Cloud Computing Technology with BPOS and Windows Azure Choosing a Billing System Moving applications to the cloud: Part 1 – What are the considerations? Learn The Cloud, Make A Difference, @home with Windows Azure
Storage	Getting the Page Ranges of a Large Page Blob in Segments Windows Azure Storage Emulator or Service? Cloud Automation with Windows Azure Storage
Architecture	Episode 73 - Nick Harris on Push Notifications for Windows 8 Learn Best Practices for Building Secure Applications in Windows Azure in New Blog Series, “Windows Azure Security Best Practices”
SQL Azure	SQL Azure Federation Poster Inside SQL Azure – Self-healing, Self-governing, Massively Scalable Database service in the Cloud SQL Azure and Trust Services
Service Bus	Windows Azure Service Bus Resequencer
Open	Debugging Node.js applications for Windows #Azure Beginners' Guide to MongoDB With Node.js on Windows Azure Aplicaciones PHP en Windows Azure ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Razor and Open Source
DevOps	Think you’re not using the cloud? Your sys admin may know differently
Big Data	Microsoft does Hadoop, and JavaScript’s the glue Examining the state of PaaS in the year of ‘big data’ A Primer on Hadoop (from the Microsoft SQL Community perspective)
Tools	Cotega - Web based monitoring for SQL Azure and cloud hosted SQL Server

	COMMUNITY
Seminar	Hands on: Windows Azure Diagnostics [Mar 29]
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