#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 9th May 2012

AZURE IN ACTION – LOCAL

AZURE IN ACTION – IN GENERAL

Windows Azure Platform

• Updates to Windows Azure Marketplace Offer More Flexibility and Opportunity

• The Rock Paper Azure Challenge is Back For a Spring Fling! :
• Windows Azure Service Name Update
• Windows Azure Devs Get Telephony and Text Messaging APIs

Related

• Big Oil Goes Mining for Big Data
• Cloud Can Do Anything – But Can It Do Better?
• Announcing V1 Pseudo-Production Release - Project "a CQRS Journey"

Partner

• Twilio Brings Cloud Communications to Windows Azure
• Sage partners with Microsoft Azure to target cloud market
• Epicor Moving Its Applications to Microsoft's Azure Cloud
                       

• MediaValet Thrives on Microsoft’s Cloud Platform
• Icertis launches contract lifecycle management product on Windows Azure
• TechNet Radio: Inside Microsoft IT - Using Windows Azure to Build Scalable Applications and Reduce Costs
• Soluto, the winner of TechCrunch Disrupt for 2009,  has switched from Amazon to Azure to deliver its consumer app to more than 3 million PCs worldwide.

TECHNOLOGY

• Brent Stineman on Azure as a Financial Institution
• Four Different Ways to Get Windows Azure Accounts and Services
• Recent Windows Azure Project Highlights: Media, Ws-fed and More…

Architecture

• Cloud Cover Episode 79 - Adding Push Notifications to Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps using Windows Azure

• The easy way of collecting Security Logs from your Windows Azure Roles

• Getting Started with Windows Azure for Java
• Top Benefits of Running Node.js on Windows Azure
• Enabling a Node.js Server-Side App on Windows Azure
• Privacy Central Protecting Your Data Using Ruby on Windows Azure
• Node.js and Azure on .NET Rocks!

SQL DATABASE

• Automating SQL Azure Backup using Worker role

• Windows Azure Service Bus EAI Doesn’t Support Multicast Messaging. Should It?
• Overview of Service Bus messaging
• Geo-replication with Service Bus Relayed Messages

Add Authentication Options to Your Windows Azure Website

• Networking in the Cloud–Understanding Windows Azure Traffic Manager 
• Automated Global Deployments with Traffic Manager and PowerShell

• Vodeclic migrates on the Windows Azure CDN (with open source Ruby on Rails libraries)

• Two Months of U.S. Air Carrier Flight Delay Data Available on the Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket

DevOps

• How to monitor your Windows Azure application with System Center 2012
• How to monitor your Windows Azure application with System Center 2012 (Part 2)
• Integrating Twilio with @Home with Windows Azure

Big Data

• Using SQOOP for moving data between HADOOP and SQL Server

• ATrak - Push files from Windows Azure Blob Storage, to Amazon S3 or Windows Folders
• SSDT - Makes SQL Azure Development Easy
• BlobShare: Corporate Filesharing with Security and Control 
• waz-storage1.1.2 - A simple implementation of Windows Azure Storage API for Ruby

COMMUNITY

• Using Mobile and Cloud to Increase Nonprofit Involvement and Donations 

Wed, 05/09/2012 - 3:00pm - 4:30pm

• Building Windows Phone Applications Using the Fast Lane: Using RIA Services on Azure as Your Backend

05/16/12, 9:15am - 10:30am

• Architectural patterns for the cloud

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 2:00 PM (GMT +1)

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