Automatically deploying Azure Connect Agents software

Cesar De la TorreMarch 31, 2011Mar 31, 201103/31/11

In order to set up Windows Azure Connect, you need to install a piece of software called Azure Connect Agent in each server/machine from your datacenter that you want to access. In order to do that, you usually have to access Azure-Portal in order to get a specific agent for each server.  You usually click “Install Local Endpoint&r

Windows Azure VMs Comparison

Cesar De la TorreMarch 24, 2011Mar 24, 201103/24/11

Just wanted to show a simple table comparison regarding CPU, memory, storage, I/O and cost for each Windows Azure VMs (Compute Instances).

Info about SCOM Azure Management Pack

Cesar De la TorreMarch 21, 2011Mar 21, 201103/21/11

Just for my record, I wanted to post a few interesting posts regarding ‘SCOM Azure Management Pack’: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/walterm/archive/2011/02/01/setting-up-performance-counters-in-your-web-and-worker-roles.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/walterm/archive/2011/02/14/adding-azure-application-monitoring-to-scom-2007-r2.aspx http://

A few options for Windows Azure Storage Backup & Restore

Cesar De la TorreMarch 12, 2011Mar 12, 201103/12/11

I just wanted to record a few options I found for Windows Azure Storage backup-restore (I’m not talking about SQL Azure, in this case). If you have any other option for this matter, please tell me and I’ll be happy to update this post. 1) Windows Azure Storage Tables backup and storage: http://tablestoragebackup.codeplex.com/ htt

Typical issue‘One of the request inputs is not valid’ when Working with the Windows Azure Development Storage

Cesar De la TorreMarch 12, 2011Mar 12, 201103/12/11

  One of the typical issues is getting the error "One of the request inputs is not valid" that occurs when testing the application with empty tables in development storage. This is because Development Storage currently requires the schema for an entity stored in a table to have been previously defined before you are allowed to query it. W

Updated Windows Azure SDK (v.1.4) and Windows Azure Management Portal

Cesar De la TorreMarch 10, 2011Mar 10, 201103/10/11

New! (March 9th 2011) Updated Windows Azure SDK (v.1.4) and Windows Azure Management Portal. New features we are enabling today include: For more detailed info: http://bit.ly/hIPsW8

Architects Forum XXVI ‘CloudPower’ – Presentations (Spanish)

Cesar De la TorreMarch 10, 2011Mar 10, 201103/10/11

As many people asked for it, here you can download the presentations (in Spanish) we delivered yesterday, during the Architects Forum XXVI, regarding the following topics: - CQRS in Windows Azure - Claims based Security and Windows Azure Access Control - Windows Azure AppFabric-Cache - Windows Azure Connect - Windows Azure AppFabric Service B