AzureHub.ru portal received an update: even more content, simplified structure

Dear developers, I hasten to share with you the good news. Windows Azure Development Center AzureHub.ru received an update. The structure of the portal, the main technical content was completely redesigned and new materials for developers were added.

Thanks to this, in the updated Center you can easily find a guide, article or advice that will help you in developing your cloud service. Here all the newest and most useful information on the Windows Azure platform is published - we recommend adding the Center to Favorites and visiting it regularly!

Now all portal content is distributed between the main blocks: Introduction, Development and Acquisition. In the first section “ Introduction ” you can learn everything about the Windows Azure platform, its components, key features and benefits.
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In the “ Development ” section, application developers can find a large number of technical articles covering all aspects of the cloud platform. The section consists of the following blocks:

• Scenarios - the main scenarios of cloud projects solved using the Windows Azure platform;
• Guides and best practices - technical articles on the practical use of Windows Azure subsystems;
• Languages, platforms and development tools - technical content structured by platform, languages ​​and frameworks, with which developers can create solutions in Windows Azure: PHP, Java, Node.js, Hadoop, Python, SharePoint, and so on;
• Success stories and examples of use - descriptions of real cases of using the Windows Azure platform by companies around the world and in Russia;
• Self-study - a section dedicated to laboratory work, which can be studied and passed independently, step by step having studied the Windows Azure platform in practice.

The “ Purchase ” section contains all the necessary information on the acquisition of the Windows Azure cloud platform capacity for your project.



In addition, on the portal you will find the following sections:

• News cloud platform Windows Azure
• Assistance and expert advice
• Video reports on Windows Azure from TechDays.ru
• Links to Windows Azure Expert Blogs
• List of materials recently added to the portal
• Free Windows Azure eBooks

We are very glad to present you the updated portal AzureHub.ru and we hope that you will find on it answers to all the questions dedicated to the Windows Azure cloud platform. We will be happy to hear your feedback and suggestions for improving the portal, write to azurerus@microsoft.com .

Windows Azure Summit

I draw your attention to the fact that on February 20 in Moscow a large Windows Azure Summit conference will be held, dedicated to the Windows Azure platform, both from a technical and a business side.

Key topics of the conference:

• Windows Azure as a development platform: latest platform updates, basic Windows Azure services.
• Scenarios for using Windows Azure: a single backend for mobile solutions, transcoding and streaming video, a backend for gaming applications, creating extensions for SharePoint Online and SharePoint 2013, integration with corporate systems.
• Business in the cloud: approaches to determining the cost of SaaS services and their pricing, methods and channels of promotion, management of the quality level agreement (SLA), compliance with the requirements of the law on personal data.
• Cloud and Web: Web development (HTML5, jQuery, SignalR, ASP.NET MVC 4) and hosting web projects in Windows Azure infrastructure.

We are pleased to announce that all the conference reports will be broadcast online on our updated portal AzureHub.ru ! We ask you to connect to the broadcast on February 20 at 10-00 in order to watch the opening of the conference and subsequent reports.

Visit the Windows Azure Development Center, see you at the conference!