Local Overview Tom Hollander strikes again at 131500 A very simple Windows Azure based app that hosts an application illustrating Sydney train commute times, to get to CBD by 9am Australian Cloud Computing Forum Website Open forum launches website prior...

Local Overview Brisbane city council picks Azure - the first {public} Australian public sector customer Local Microsoft SDC team and partners launched a second QLD Government Windows Azure site to help with managing offers of assistance in the cyclone...

Local Overview Tim Buntel ( @tbuntel ) joins Microsoft Australia as new Windows Azure Product Marketing Manager. Read why he joined here Readiness & Resources Reading: SQL Azure Overview of SQL Azure Data Sync Windows Azure ASP.NET MVC 3 in Windows...

Local Overview MCS and partners build government pledge site on Windows Azure: New national register for businesses to help with flood relief launched by Queensland Government   Readiness & Resources Reading: SQL Azure SqlAzure and a Best Practices...

I read this today and thought very much worth sharing “Along with Telstra and our partner Productiv, we are pleased to offer a complimentary subscription to the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) to flood affected businesses that have...

To celebrate the launch of Windows Phone 7, Australia's best developers can use their skills and create an app worthy of claiming the title of Windows Phone 7 App Champion. The fight is on ! Can’t wait to see the results….

As part of my simple Azure Assets application I first focussed on Pagination.  Although my test data was relatively small I knew that there were a number of categories for the data and many types which, if not paginated, could look daunting to the...

I've been saying it for a couple of months. Albeit a solitary wee voice, somewhat trying for a response : Simply moving servers to the cloud ignores architecture. I'm revising that statement today to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is not for software...

Local Overview Local specialists demonstrate and promote best practices: Catherine Eibner : Windows Azure Storage Available for QLD business affected by the floods Tom Hollander : Responding to topology changes   Readiness & Resources Reading...

Over the past few months I've built up quite a library of Azure Assets. So as part of my learning plan I’m, building out a few sample applications to share these resources and present them using Azure as the underlying data source. In the next week or...

Catherine Eibner has put together details , a couple of days ago, on the offer our local Windows Azure team has put together on how you can quickly backup your system images and data to the cloud. We felt this was a great way of providing free storage...

Getting started with Windows Azure isn't as tricky or daunting as you may think. After all, its familiar tools, with your end product (an application) residing in a different place. I'd concur with my colleague Tom Hollander who argued recently that the...

As it customary this time of year there are many predictions for the coming year. Here are a few I have been sent and read I thought worth re-sharing: 2011 Cloud Computing Predictions For CIO’s And Business Technology Leaders I've often been asked, how...

This week the digital nativity video has been doing the rounds in Facebook and email. Very clever it is too. You can see the excentric YouTube Video for yourself here: Now literally thinking, how could the cloud (and Windows Azure specifically) have helped...

Local Overview Regional Update: Fujitsu and Microsoft weigh up Data Center in Japan   Readiness & Resources Reading: 2010 Year End Security Wrap “Cloud 9 or Cloud Crime ” Microsoft Azure Cloud – Top 20 Lessons Learned about MSFT’s PaaS DataMarket...

Local Overview NICTA, ANU and CSIRO partner with Microsoft – Windows Azure   Readiness & Resources Reading: Observations from the Gartner data center conference “Yes, we’re using the public cloud but we’re in denial about it”. Cute article series...

Local Overview Local Azure specialist Tom Hollander writes about full IIS differences from Hosted Web Core (HWC)   Readiness & Resources Reading: Re-Introducing the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service Watching: Windows Azure BootCamp...

Most enterprises are being charged with a wholesale review of their applications and infrastructure to meet the hype, and sometimes reality, that is Cloud. It is my personal opinion that enterprise developers need to start their training, experiment and...

Last week I was migrating to my new work laptop - HP 2740p tablet  which has a very powerful CPU, but feels like the chassis only ran through the first half of the design process. During this move I used Windows Easy Transfer to copy files back and...

Local Overview APRA: Specific considerations when using cloud computing services Readiness & Resources Reading: Windows Azure AppFabric: A Strategic Core of Microsoft's Cloud Platform 10 Noteworthy New Features Coming to Microsoft's Azure Cloud Platform...

Local Overview Windows Azure Platform University - Brett and Owen Report About Australia From Singapore Readiness & Resources Reading: The Economics of the Cloud ( a fantastic read despite the drab title) Watching: Cloud Cover Episode 32   -...

Local Overview APAC data transfers has been lowered from $0.30 GB in / $0.45 GB out to $0.10 GB in / $0.20 GB out from November 11 2010 Readiness & Resources Readify Azure Assessment now available The Windows Azure Platform Introductory Special offer...

Local Overview The Australian – Curtin Call – A case study of Australian university Curtin University’s use of the Azure platform in their iPortfolio service, delivered on the Azure platform. Curtin talks about the benefits of delivering this service...

After TechEd, various internal events and some pretty nifty demos from the guys at Readify, its about time I stopped playing with emulators and wrote something. This post contains a bunch of developer readiness resources to help me and perhaps you, get...

I’m lucky, I have a few machines I use for work and for home. When I was a kid the Mattel Aquarius was an amazement. Later the Commodore 64 a dream, and writing space invaders on Acorn and RM Nimbus machines was a breeze. As developed from X-Windows,...