#Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 27th June 2012

AZURE IN ACTION – LOCAL

AZURE IN ACTION – IN GENERAL

Windows Azure Platform

• New
• Announcing One Year of Windows Azure FREE with WebsiteSpark

Press

• Microsoft pushes Azure as cloud infrastructure on demand
• Microsoft Achieves SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 for Cloud and Online Services Infrastructure

Related

• Microsoft’s Nadella: We will democratize big data
TWC9: Microsoft Surface, Windows Phone 8, Azure, Imagine Cup and Pi!
Microsoft Connected Car and Windows Azure - Microsoft job posting hints at Connected Car strategy: Azure, Kinect and WP8 -- Engadget
• Meet Microsoft's New Super Software

Cloud

• Cloud Computing Simply Isn't That Scary Anymore: Survey - Forbes

Partner

• Microsoft Supporting Symantec Cloud Security
• Elance and Microsoft Create New Microsoft Developers Program

• City of Regina Calls on the Windows Azure Cloud to Launch Open Data Initiative

TECHNOLOGY

• Contribute to the Training Kit
• An HTML-Based Windows Azure Management Portal
• My 10 favourite new/improved #WindowsAzure Features!
• Azure UG - June 2012 Overview
• Episode 40 of Visual Studio Toolbox: What's New in the Windows Azure June 2012 Release is now live

• Cloud Cover Live: Windows Azure with Scott Guthrie

• Mark Russinovich: On Windows Azure IaaS, Sysinternals, Cybersecurity, Trojan Horse

• Managing the Cloud from the Command Line

• Mongo DB Release Notes - Azure - Version 0.5
• WindowsAzure / azure-sdk-for-php
• Creating a PHP Web Role in Windows Azure

• With Azure Active Directory, Microsoft wants to be the meta ID hub
• A Lap Around Windows Azure Active Directory

• Infrastructure as a Service Series: Virtual Machines and Windows
• Installing Node.js on a CentOS Linux Virtual Machine in Windows Azure

• Deploying Windows Azure Website using Visual Studio Web Publish wizard
• WorkFlow (XAMLX) Service Activity with WCF Service in Windows Azure Websites
• Web Sites Series: Create PHP and MySQL sites with Windows Azure Web Sites and WebMatrix
• Web Sites Series: Experience Windows Azure Web Sites from beyond Windows
• Azure Web Sites-Web Deploy
• Windows # Azure Web Sites – Intro
• Windows Azure Evolution – Deploy Web Sites (WAWS Part 3)

• 256 Windows Azure Worker Roles, Windows Kinect and a 90's Text-Based Ray-Tracer

• Designing for Scale with Windows Azure Storage
• The Common Use Cases for Windows Azure storage

SQL DATABASE

• Data Series: SQL Server in Windows Azure Virtual Machine vs. SQL Database

• Federations: What’s Next? Announcements from TechED 2012

• Visual Studio Service Bus Explorer versus Standalone Service Bus Explorer
• Azure–Service Bus Queues in Worker Roles

• Cloud Services Series: What's new in Windows Azure Caching

• How to Create your Eye on Earth web maps using ArcGIS Online

• Processing Azure Storage analytics logs with Hadoop on Azure
• A few tips for Big Data projects

• SharePoint and Windows Azure: Data Sync, Media Services & Virtual Machines

• Windows Azure command-line tool for Mac and Linux

COMMUNITY

• Watch What You Missed at TechEd North America 2012
• Learn Windows Azure at TechEd Europe

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 (to be move to Azure Web Sites!)
• FaceBook: Becoming a Facebook fan
• Twitter: Adding yourself to the Azure Australia Twitter list
• Email: Joining the Mailing list for OzAzure