Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. Here are the highlights for this week.
Articles and Blog Posts
- Microsoft’s Nadella: We will Democratize Big Data by @gigabarb, GigaOm (posted June 21)
- Windows Azure and Java: Working with Blob Storage by Satish Nikam, Persistent Systems Blog (posted June 22)
- Deploying The Need Facebook Canvas App to Windows Azure Web Sites by @benjguin (posted June 22)
- Making Good on the Promise of IdMaaS by @craigburton (posted June 21)
- Managing the Cloud from the Command Line by @shanselman (posted June 20)
- Windows Azure is Changing the Start-up Paradigm by James Varga (posted June 20)
- Episode 40 of the Visual Studio Toolbox: What’s New in the Windows Azure June 2012 Release is Now Live (VIDEO) by Robert Green (posted June 20)
- (Windows) Azure Storage Explorer 5 Preview Now Available with Logging & Monitoring Support by @davidpallmann (posted June 17)
- Federations: What’s Next? Announcements from TechEd by @cihangirb (posted June 14)
Upcoming Events and User Group Meetings
North America
- June 23-24: AngelHack – Boston; New York; Palo Alto, CA; Seattle, WA
- June 28: Boston Windows Azure Meeting – Boston, MA
- July 27: Windows Azure Camp – New York, NY
- July 8-12: Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference – Toronto, Canada
Europe
- June 26-29: Microsoft TechEd Europe 2012 – Amsterdam, Netherlands
- June 26: Dutch Windows Azure User Group – Amsterdam, Netherlands
- June 27: Windows Azure for IT Professionals – What’s New? – Zurich, Switzerland
- July 4: UK Windows Azure User Group Meeting – Manchester, UK
Other
- June 29: Windows Azure DevCamp – Tokyo, Japan
Recent Windows Azure Forums Discussion Threads
- Virtual Machine Storage Transactions – 1,323 views, 28 replies
- VPN Question with (Windows) Azure New Virtual Network Feature – 463 views, 13 replies
- Node.js on (Windows) Azure with MongoDB 32-bit – 1,664 views, 5 replies
- Newbie: After Successful Authentication and Redirect, How to Get the Unique Token? – 543 views, 4 replies
Send us articles that you’d like us to highlight, or content of your own that you’d like to share. And let us know about any local events, groups or activities that you think we should tell the rest of the Windows Azure community about. You can use the comments section below, or talk to us on Twitter @WindowsAzure.
Have a great weekend!
Himanshu