#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 14th February 2012

AZURE IN ACTION - HIGHLIGHTS DOWN UNDER

AZURE IN ACTION - WEEKLY ROUNDUP

Windows Azure Platform

• SQL Azure - Announcing Reduced Pricing (48% to 75% savings) and New 100MB DB Option
• New Service Update Released for Microsoft Codename "Data Transfer"

• Windows 8 is not all about Tablets, it’s about the future
• Microsoft's plan to bring its ERP users slowly but surely to the cloud
• Microsoft Private Cloud Book
• Microsoft teams up with 24/7 for customer service software

Case Study

• ReedRex CMS sociobridge
• Microsoft, CJ Fallon introduce cloud service for textbooks (Ireland)
• Cloudera and Tableau Empower Business Intelligence With Apache Hadoop

General

• 3 secrets to creating a business case for cloud computing
• The Path to the Intelligent Cloud
• Thanks to the cloud, integration is back -- with a twist
• Tips for Replicating Data in The Cloud

TECHNOLOGY

• An Introduction to Windows Azure (Part 2)

Architecture

• Cloud based software architecture lessons from the field
• What I Learned Building a Startup on Microsoft Cloud Services: Part 3 – Choosing a Hybrid of Services
• SharePoint Online and Windows Azure: Developing Secure BCS Connections in the Cloud
• A Custom High-Availability Cache Solution
• MSDN: Real World: Considerations When Choosing a Web Role Instance Size: How small should I go?
• Windows Azure Deployment Domains

Storage

• How many copies of your blob is stored in Windows Azure Blob Storage?

SQL Azure

• Ways To Load Data In SQL Azure
• How To Copy A Schema Container To Another SQL Azure Database

Federations

• Connection Pool Fragmentation: Use Federations and you won’t need to learn about these nasty problems that come with sharding!

ACS

• Azure webrole federated by ACS
• ASP.NET: Authentication With SWT Token Using Windows Azure ACS and WIF Custom Token Handler
• ADFS and ACS: Slides from Jan 10th Jan UKWAUG meeting

• Azure Service Bus: Connectivity at a Cloud Scale
• Service Bus support in azure npm 0.5.2
• Try, Try, and Try Again
• Solve ‘Complex Data Restructuring’ Using the ‘List’ Operations in the Service Bus EAI/EDI Mapper
• Enterprise Integration Patterns with Service Bus (Part 1)

Open

• MongoDB, Windows Azure (and Node.js)
• Deploying PHP and ASP.NET Sites in a Single Azure Web Role

DevOps

• Cloud Applications and Application Lifecycle Management (Includes Azure)

Big Data

• Windows Azure and High Performance Compute

Hadoop

• Wiki launched for Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure
• Connecting Power View to Hadoop on Azure–An #awesomesauce way to view Big Data in the Cloud
• Analyzing 1 TB of IIS logs with Hadoop Map/Reduce on Azure with JavaScript | Analyse d’1 To de journaux IIS avec Hadoop Map/Reduce en JavaScript

Office

• Visual guide to Azure Access Controls Services authentication with SharePoint 2010

• Windows Azure Demos with Steve Marx

Tools

• Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets 2.2.1

COMMUNITY

• How Can My Business Benefit from Windows Azure [Mar 8]

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