Melbourne Windows Azure Meetup
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Melbourne Windows Azure Meetup25 February 2013Chris PadgettDevelopment Consultant, Kloud Solutions
Update New Windows Azure PowerShell Update – December 2
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Windows Azure and VM Depot – Better Together Windows Azure Store: New add-ons and expanded av
ailability
Windows Azure Service Bus Push Notification Hubs Backup
and Restore to Cloud Simplified in SQL Server 2012 SP1 CU2
nopCommerce and Windows Azure Web Sites
Jan+
Uploading VHDs for onboarding virtual machines is simplerManage ServiceBus Namespaces from the command line
Extreme Scale / pubsub/multicast
Update nopCommerce and Windows Azure Web Sites Windows Azure VMs (IaaS) general availability –
getting closerCosts SQL Reporting Services Pricing Update
Released Windows Azure Media ServicesReleased Guest OS Updates 3.2, 2.14 and 1.22 roll out begun
Feb Decreased from $0.88 per hour for every 200 reports to $0.16 per hour for every 30 reports
News
Microsoft to offer its 'Drawbridge' virtualization technology on top of its Windows Azure cloud
new hosting model, removing the need for the virtual machine?
21ViaNet announced that it has started construction of a new data center in the Daxing District of Beijing
Microsoft Azure overtakes Amazon's cloud in performance test - Network World
Microsoft’s Data-Center Tab Tops $15 Billion
News
Local News
2 new StorSimple positions in local Windows Azure team
February 26 – March 3rd – CAT team in town…
Mahesh Krishnan – newest Australian Windows Azure MVP!Local News
Local Authors
Aidan Casey (MYOB) – Windows Azure Websites pack a big punch for a small offering
Bill Chessnut (Mexia) - Azure Virtual Network Preview (using DrayTek 2830 ADSL2 Router)
Greg Low (SQL Down Under) How full is my Windows Azure SQL Database?)
Troy Hunt (Pfizer ) ASafaWeb, Excessive Headers and Windows Azure
Mick Badran (Breeze) Azure: 6 weeks of Azure–let the games begin
Local Authors
FYI
Changes in SQL Database Engine throttling 10th
January 2012 Throttling has always existed for finite resouces Now worker thread throttled at a database level…
Test, test, test
How to provision a Visual Studio based load test environment on Windows Azure
Windows Azure SQL Database and SQL Server -- Performance and Scalability Compared and Contrasted
Securing Azure Virtual Machines << Beware of open RDP ports and loose passwords
FYI
Real WorldBelieve it or not
Voter Enablement
Real World Believe itOr not
packages starting below $10 USD a month per camera
Genetec Unveils Stratocast
VSaaS
Comic-con 2013 – Windows Azure
Learning
Geolocation sample end to end using Windows Azure Mobile Services
Learn ShowTell
Build a SharePoint 2013 Lab in the Cloud on Windows Azure
Near Realtime Sensor Data with Windows Azure Mobile Services
Tools
Citrix ShareFile on Azure
Tools n Tips
Cerebrata: Best Practices for Building Windows Azure Cloud ApplicationsAditi: A Guide to Troubleshooting Windows Azure Applications
Free eBook on Designing Cloud Applications -Cloud ALM
Step-by-Step: Extending On-Premise Active Directory to the Cloud with Windows Azure
Events
Global Windows Azure Bootcamp! On April 27th, 2013
Apps for Asia Program
Project in a box – Bring your own PilotThursday, 14 March
6 Weeks of Windows Azure BootcampSaturday, 16 March
Appfest Melbourne“Build a connected Windows Phone 8 & a Windows 8 application in one day, using Windows Azure Mobile Services.”Saturday, 2nd March
www.aka.ms/6weeks
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