#Azure Action - Weekly Newsletter - 22nd October 2010

Local Overview

Steve Nagy – Windows Azure MVP in Australia – Well done!

Readiness & Resources

Testing

• Scale-out to the cloud, scale back to your rack

CRM:

• Windows Azure Web Role Hosted Service + Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Impersonation

In the news:

• Open source cloud initiative embraces Microsoft virtualization platform
• Learning from the Cloud - Miami uses Windows #Azure for compute-intensive app - "cost 75% less than in-house servers"
• Practically Speaking About Cloud Computing
• Microsoft confirms (again) that Azure will have a IaaS component

Events:

• Join us in the Microsoft Sydney Office to watch the live stream of the Professional Developers Conference

29 Oct 2010, 3:00 AM

· SQL Azure Sessions at PDC

Azure Discovery Days Registration

• Azure Readify RDN days – October
• Microsoft BizSpark Startup Camp – Perth

Community:

Are people interested in an Australian Azure User Group? If so please contact me!

Guidance

** I’m building this into a simple but dynamic website

In the meantime here are some tips

• Best Practices for Developing on Window Azure
• Books

I decided to group my Azure blogs into one place. That way I can keep them up to date and ready for sharing.

I’ve also checked the Azure daily which seems to have quite a bit of the collated content from the twitterverse.

Questions

Interviewing thought leaders on cloud computing

Got an idea you want the Azure team to take notice of? Try here and also see what others are looking forward to

Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft, interviewed at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Orlando 2010

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