Windows Azure Caching can help your application access state, store SQL Azure database data and serialize/deserialize objects regardless of location. Some of the key benefits of caching is to increase application performance, data distribution and data...

AZURE IN ACTION - HIGHLIGHTS DOWN UNDER NEWS TECHNOLOGY COMMUNITY Windows Azure for BizSpark Plus   coming soon to Australia Romik o Derbynew Windows Azure–Diagnosing Role Start-ups Brisbane Azure User Group First Meeting First date on 15th February...

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 ...

[A new year a new format - I hope this is cleaner and welcome your comments! -David] AZURE IN ACTION - HIGHLIGHTS DOWN UNDER NEWS TECHNOLOGY COMMUNITY Harvey Norman Harvey Norman peddles GST-free computer games with Windows Azure commerce engine Japan...

Local Overview : ETSA Utilities get agile with Azure  delivering “ Power at my Place ” Power@MyPlace™ is a free message service which provides timely and accurate information regarding power at your property. Registered users can choose to receive...

Local Overview : Local Australian Cloud Software Vendor (CSV) ibCOM release developer productivity tools on Azure at http://mydigitalstructure.com/              Two new Windows Azure Virtual...

Local Overview : Harvey Norman launched a new speciality eCommerce Kitchenware store running on Windows Azure Cloud Cast Australia back up – Now on Windows Azure Readiness & Resources: Windows Azure: General Controlling Application Pool Idle Timeouts...

Local Overview :            Marketing your Restaurant made easy – Windows Azure helps Marketing4Restaurants focus on its customers and think global [ FinReview 29th November ]   “To the cloud”: Microsoft...

Local Overview : Microsofts Bizspark's StyleRocks - the world's first jewellery website that lets visitors design their own jewellery -€“ built on Windows Azure Customised products are then hand made in Australia and shipped directly to the customer....

Local Overview : 2 new Windows Azure virtual technical specialists for Australia. Congratulations Andy Hitchman from SMS and Conor Brady from Oakton! Readiness & Resources: Windows Azure: General Using Scala and the Play Framework in Windows Azure...

Local Overview : Regional: THE STAR , the no 1 news portal for Malaysians, now scales out using Windows Azure avoiding performance pitfalls and now able to adjust dynamically to cope with peak news events Readiness & Resources: Windows Azure: General...

Local Overview : Australia’s biggest sporting day propped up by high performance integrated solution running on Windows Azure Microsoft partner Breeze helps Centrebet users have real-time market data with graphs and models  for the Melbourne Cup...

Whilst testing high performance Excel Workbook Offloading our project team found that our substantial amount of Azure muscle provided in our Azure subscription wasn’t being optimised. Since this might be a situation you encounter I thought I’d share this...

Local Overview : BizSpark ramps up as Australia is announced 2nd-best world economy in which to start-up a business according to World Bank study Readiness & Resources: Windows Azure: General PowerBuilder and Windows Azure by Jim O'Neil Cloud Artwork...

In case you missed it SQL PASS Summit 2011 featured important announcements for SQL Azure SQL Azure Data Sync final preview release now open to all SQL Azure customers via Windows Azure Management Portal. SQL Azure Reporting final preview release now...

Local Overview : Public system helps light up ETSA Utilities' electricity network map Local writer Thiago Almedia contributes to MSDN: How to integrate a BizTalk Server application with Service Bus Queues and Topics         ...

Local Overview : Happy House Hunting in South Australia with the Navigator – running on Windows Azure Tom Hollander writes Using Service Bus Queues with WCF         Readiness & Resources: Windows Azure: How a VM...

In a previous blog post I walked through a criteria for calculating migration complexity to Windows Azure. As an example I used Tom Hollander ’s challenge of migrating the classic .Net Pet Shop.  In this post I will walk through the steps I undertook...

Local Overview : Gold Coast couple takes on Facebook with Microsoft in tow Local Azure writers: Fresh from Asia architects training Tom Hollander writes about Environments for Windows Azure development Bondi Geek writes Json serialization with Windows...

There are many tools and strategies for data backup in Windows and SQL Azure. This post is to outline a few that exist today. Its also worth noting that recently added to the SQL Azure portal was an Import Export feature . In terms of approaches the following...

Local Overview Blue skies for Microsoft's Azure cloud offering in Australia Readiness & Resources Windows Azure: Using CSUPLOAD tool to upload service certificates for your Windows Azure Application SnowMaker – a unique id generator for Azure (or...

The challenge of migrating any application is, more often than not, a worthy architectural and business exercise. Its worth is in lock step with the value of the application – its usage and importance. It can result in benefits for the users (e.g. access...

Local Overview    [overseas this week so mini update!] Team Foundation Service Registration code for Asia-Pacific Readiness & Resources Windows Azure: White Paper Series Helps You Get a Start on Windows Azure Pricing How to Get Diagnostics...

Local Overview Centrebet deploys app integration platform with Windows Azure delivered by Microsoft partner Breeze Congrats to participants of the Azure Startup Camp in Sydney and winner John Young with his Azure solution called uBalancer In case you...

Local Overview : Curtin trials DNA sequencing in Azure Since March, Curtin has used Azure to study genome sequences of four animals. A couple from last week’s TechEd 2011 Australia: Australian datacentre makes no economic sense, Microsoft says GreenButton...