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

Events