Panda Security releases a free Beta version of Panda Cloud Office Protection 6.0, in the Cloud, on Windows Azure!!

Cesar De la TorreJanuary 6, 2012Jan 6, 201201/6/12

I publish this information because I’ve been collaborating with them on migrating their backend anti-virus system to the Microsoft PaaS cloud which is Windows Azure. They have got many benefits on doing this, like elasticity, rapid scalability, and one of the most important things,

We completed the Microsoft Architects Forum: Enterprise & ISVs Applications on Windows Azure (Barcelona Dec. 13th & Madrid Dec. 15th)

Cesar De la TorreDecember 16, 2011Dec 16, 201112/16/11

 
It was a nice event exposing Windows Azure scenarios very oriented to ISVs, subjects like Multi-Tenancy, Security, Java apps on Windows Azure, etc. Additionally we had three companies (Panda-Security, Softeng and Grupo Teldat) talking about their real experience in their projects when migrating their products to Windows Azure,

Architects Forum: Enterprise & ISVs Applications on Windows Azure (Barcelona Dec. 13th & Madrid Dec. 15th)

Cesar De la TorreDecember 3, 2011Dec 3, 201112/3/11

In December we’re going to deliver this free assistance event focusing on enterprise applications and architectures on Windows Azure, subjects like MULTi-TENANCY on windows Azure, and showing optimizations, scalability and load testing made by real Windows Azure customers like PANDA-SECURITY and SOFTENG.

Creating an X.509 certificate for Windows Azure

Cesar De la TorreNovember 29, 2011Nov 29, 201111/29/11

I always forget the command line to do this, so I’m going to post it in my own blog.
The way to set a specific certificate name, so you can find it within Windows Azure after it is registered, is using the Certificate Creation Tool (makecert.exe) to create an X.509 certificate:
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How to explore a Windows Azure Package (How to create it with no encryption)

Cesar De la TorreOctober 5, 2011Oct 5, 201110/5/11

As you may know, a Windows Azure package is a .ZIP file, but, it is encrypted, so, even though you can rename the extension, when you take a look into it, you cannot really see the project files.
In order to see it,

New update Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – April Update

Cesar De la TorreApril 25, 2011Apr 25, 201104/25/11

Quite a few new interesting updates:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=413E88F8-5966-4A83-B309-53B7B77EDF78&displaylang=en
From the site:
Some of the specific changes with the April update of the training kit includes:
· [New] Authenticating Users in a Windows Phone 7 App via ACS, OData Services and Windows Azure lab
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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. 

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).

Compute Instance Size

CPU

Memory

Instance Storage

I/O Performance

Cost per hour

Extra Small

1.0 GHz

768 MB

20 GB

Low

$0.05

Small

1.6 GHz

1.75 GB

225 GB

Moderate

$0.12

Medium

2 x 1.6 GHz

3.5 GB

490 GB

High

$0.24

Large

4 x 1.6 GHz

7 GB

1,000 GB

High

$0.48

Extra large

8 x 1.6 GHz

14 GB

2,040 GB

High

$0.96

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://blogs.msdn.com/b/walterm/archive/2011/03/18/configuring-azure-diagnostics-performance-counter-monitoring-in-scom-2007-r2.aspx