#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 28th February 2012 - Team Individualism - Site Home

AZURE IN ACTION - HIGHLIGHTS DOWN UNDER

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

BizSpark Plus

Microsoft gives Aussie startups a boost to the cloud

Australian Developers in Action

Adrian Brenton of Janison

Steve Orenstein at My Casting Net

James Coenen-Eyre from Bondi Geek

Dean Robertson at Mexia

Mick Badran

Azure: Useful bits and Pieces

Microsoft Australia & Breeze

How the Cloud can help you integrate. 29th February 2012

Inside Windows Azure, the Cloud Operating System

12th March 2012, 2-4pm

Windows Azure Sydney User Group

User Group March meet up will be on running 'Node.js in Windows Azure' dates to be confirmed.

AZURE IN ACTION - WEEKLY ROUNDUP

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	StreamInsight in Windows Azure: Austin February CTP Updated Windows Azure SDK & Windows Azure HPC Scheduler SDK SQL Azure MP CTP is now available
Microsoft	Microsoft is building a new datacenter in Dublin (Irish Times) Related Microsoft Gives Devs a Glance at Visual Studio 11 Microsoft Agile Tools Team doing Agile Beware the Googlighting Stranger Steve Sinofsky: will 'Spock-meets-Spartan' be Microsoft's next CEO?
Case Study	Film Industry Selects Windows Azure for High-Capacity Business Needs
General	Moore’s (Traffic) Law – data grows linearly with processing power

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	Step by Step Guide to Create First Windows Azure Application How can you make money with Azure and make your users sign up with no hesitation? Azure Datacenter IP Ranges Auto-Scale Windows Azure Cloud Apps Using the Autoscaling Application Block
Architecture	CQRS BUS and Windows Azure technologies Multi-Tenant Data Strategies for Windows Azure – Part 2 Windows Azure using CNAME DNS records for multiple sites and SSL Auto updating webrole (IDynamicWebRole) Security Securing the service and building trust Configure SSL for specific pages in Windows Azure Protecting Your Data in SQL Azure: New Best Practices Documentation Now Available
Storage	Everything you need to know about Windows Azure Blob Storage including permissions, signatures, concurrency, … Windows Azure Storage and Concurrent Access Windows Azure Blob Upload Scenarios Cloud Storage Choices on Windows Azure In the Windows azure BLOB storage blocks store files
SQL Azure	“Inside SQL Azure: Self Governing, Self-Healing, Massively Scalable Database Service in the Cloud” 12 Hours of SQL Server Protecting Your Data in SQL Azure Federations Teach the old dog new tricks: How to work with Federations in Legacy Tools and Utilities?
ACS	Using Windows Azure Access Control Service to provide a single sign-on experience with popular identity providers Request a token from ADFS using WS-Trust from iOS, Objective-C, IPhone, IPad, Android, Java, Node.js or any platform or language
Cache	Using Windows Azure caching service to improve performance for your cloud services
Marketplace	Data Market Chat: Microsoft’s Windows Azure Marketplace
Open	SAG Awards Drupal Website Moves to Windows Azure Node.js, Windows Azure (and socket.io) Windows Azure Storage for PHP Developers
DevOps	How to use Diagnostics.wadcfg to configure Windows Azure diagnostics collection Setting Up Diagnostics Monitoring In Windows Azure Team Foundation Server on Windows Azure Cloud Advanced (and flexible) Configuration for Windows Azure .NET Applications(configure .Net applications running in Windows Azure in the same way you do with traditional On-Premise applications)
Big Data	Microsoft's Hadoop roadmap reveals new big data deliverables Big Data, Hadoop and StreamInsight™
Office	Why isn’t it possible to run a Sharepoint server instance in an Azure VM role?
Social	Track Consumer Engagement and Sentiment with Microsoft Codename “Social Analytics”
Tools	Using ArcGIS Server in Windows Azure CA ARCserve D2D On Demand service - A Hybrid Approach to Backup and Recovery in the Cloud ManageEngine Azure Performance Monitor Tool 1.0 freeware Windows Azure File Backup Service CloudNetCare, a solution to test the performance of Web sites Panda Cloud Office Protection 6.0, hosted on Windows Azure (Beta free)

	COMMUNITY
Seminar	How Can My Business Benefit from Windows Azure [Mar 8] RBA Tech Spotlight: Windows Azure [Mar 21]
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