#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 23rd May 2012 - Team Individualism - Site Home

AZURE IN ACTION – LOCAL

NEWS

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

no news this week

LaLaNinja

Using the Cloud as a security boundary…? No way!

Microsoft NZ

Azure slides from the NZ System Center 2012 launch event are online, great content

Microsoft

MEET AZURE DEV CAMPS

All day event in Sydney on the 19th June

Switched on Briefings

Extending your Business with Hybrid Cloud Solutions. Its best suited for CIO’s, Enterprise Architects and Developer Leads – Signup here. 16th –24th May in your city.

Sydney Azure User Group

'Building Hybrid Applications on Azure & CDN lightening talk'

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Melbourne Azure User Group

Thu, 31 May, 2012

Building Node.js applications on Windows Azure

Microsoft and Breeze

Connecting Cloud and On-Premises Applications Using Windows Azure Virtual Network

June 8th 2-4pm AEST – Mick Badran

AZURE IN ACTION – IN GENERAL

	NEWS
Windows Azure Platform	Update to Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7
In the news	Azure Microsoft Courts Azure Developers in Bangalore Microsoft's Visual Studio 11 lineup adds Windows Phone, Azure tools CloudTip #15 - MEET Windows Azure Microsoft to Launch Amazon EC2 Rival. Again Microsoft Corporate VP Hadba urges app designers to think of cloud design before anything else Related Cloud computing in healthcare – turn here for answers Innovation isn’t dead, it just moved to the cloud Infographic: What is Private Cloud Computing? Microsoft Microsoft breaks big data sorting record Partner Hanu Software Selected to Join the Microsoft Windows Azure Circle Program
Case Study	ISV Guest Post Series: Softlibrary and Kern4Cloud on Windows Azure

	TECHNOLOGY
Introduction	CloudTip #13-What do you need to know to get started? Windows Azure Myths MC108-overview of Windows Azure Série – Windows Azure
Architecture	What are the Options for Managing Message State in Windows Azure? Design Guidelines for Cloud Computing Azure Performance Tips, Part 2: Cloud Checks (part 1) Data in Motion: The Other side of the Cloud Encryption Coin
STORAGE	Windows Azure and Java: Metering multi-tenant resource usage with Storage Analytics Windows Azure: Working with Blob Storage in an ASP.NET Application Managing Structured Data using Windows Azure Table Service Windows Azure tables: partitioning guid row keys
SQL DATABASE	CloudTip #14-How do I get SQL Profiler info from SQL Azure? ID Generation in Federations in Azure SQL Database: Identity, Sequences, Timestamp and GUIDs (Uniqueidentifier) Writing a small application to manipulate the [Windows Azure] SQL Database [a.k.a., SQL Azure] firewall
ACCESS CONTROL	Using a Security Token Service with an ASP.NET Application
SERVICE BUS	More Fun with the Windows Azure Service Bus Getting Started with the Service Bus Samples for Windows 8 Window Azure Service Bus: Use read-only credentials for your Service Bus clients
MEDIA SERVICES	Diving in Deep with Digital Rapids Kayak and Azure Media Services - Streaming Media Magazine
Office	Project VBA and Azure: Better Together
HPC	Numerix Analytics Portfolio Now Available on Windows Azure
Tools	Opstera Eases Transition to the Cloud With New Dashboard for Monitoring Windows Azure Azure on Codeplex CloudBerry Backup version 2.8.

	COMMUNITY
Webinar	Get ready to meet Windows Azure on June 7th
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