#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 6th March 2012 - Team Individualism - Site Home

AZURE IN ACTION - HIGHLIGHTS DOWN UNDER

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

Harvey Norman

Another launch of a speciality store – Get your Travel Gear – enabled with Windows Azure

Microsoft Australia

Breeze

Feature Decision Making with Hybrid IT Solutions

Romiko Derbynew

Appfabric Topics–Pub/Sub Messaging Service Bus

Microsoft Australia & Breeze

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' 22nd March at 6pm

AZURE IN ACTION - WEEKLY ROUNDUP

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	Windows Azure Service Disruption Update/ Windows Azure Service Disruption Resolved Microsoft Codename "Data Hub" - An Online Service for Data Discovery, Distribution and Curation
Microsoft	Azure Microsoft to add another preview build, more testers for Hadoop on Azure Microsoft Broadens Apache Hadoop Contributions Windows Azure Challenge - What its all about. Microsoft flies high on Indian clouds with Windows Azure Datameer to Bring Hadoop Analytics to Windows Azure Outage Gartner: Another Cloud Outage: Insight and Reactions Microsoft's Azure cloud leap-day meltdown On the Recent Windows Azure Leap Day Outage Azure Cloud Outage: it’s not unique, it will happen again, how to protect from it Microsoft Azure Leap Day Outage Questions Persist Windows Azure Compute Availability Logs: North and South Central US Data Centers, 2/29 and 3/1/2012 Related Cloud Computing to Enable Global Job Growth, According to IDC Study New Cloud Accounting Survey General: No joke: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 debuts on April Fools' Day
Case Study	Sundance Looks to StorSimple to Simplify Its Massive Storage Needs

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	Windows Azure on Windows 8 Get Started with Cloud Computing and Windows Azure
Architecture	Importance of Affinity Groups in Windows Azure Doing a Multi-Cloud Deployment of an ASP.NET Web Application Exploring Cloud Architecture Security Windows Azure Security Best Practices
Storage	Enableing gzip compression with Windows Azure CDN through Web Role Everything you need to know about Windows Azure Table Storage to use a scalable non-relational structured data store Everything you need to know about Windows Azure Blob Storage including permissions, signatures, concurrency, …
SQL Azure	Create a SQL Azure database Tips, Resources For Moving Your Database to SQL Azure Federations Introduction to SQL Azure Federations Scale-First Approach to Database Design with Federations: Part 1 – Picking Federations and Picking the Federation Key
ACS	Cross-post: The Windows Azure Claim Provider for SharePoint Project (Three Part Series)
Service Bus	WindowsAzure Appfabric Topics Pub/Sub messaging demo Create a Continuous Client Using Portable Class Libraries
Open	Windows Azure Storage Client for Java Overview Windows Azure Storage Client for Java Tables Deep Dive
DevOps	TFS Beta Build Service on Windows Azure Team Foundation Server on Windows Azure Cloud – Part 3 – Administer Security
Big Data	Running Apache Mahout at Hadoop on Windows Azure(www.hadooponazure.com)
CRM	Windows Azure + MS CRM 2011 better together (part one)

	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