Cesar de la Torre

Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.

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Scoping CQRS and Event-Sourcing Guidance Project

January 12, 2012 Jan 12, 2012 01/12/12
Cesar De la Torre
I am collaborating with the patterns & practices team. We are considering doing a guidance project on implementing systems using the Command & Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) approach. This is not going to be a framework or reusable components. We are positioning this project as a learning journey and envision providing an ...

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

January 6, 2012 Jan 6, 2012 01/6/12
Cesar De la Torre
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, they have reduced their costs and TCO a lot!. It is a ...

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

December 16, 2011 Dec 16, 2011 12/16/11
Cesar De la Torre
  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, talking ...

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

December 3, 2011 Dec 3, 2011 12/3/11
Cesar De la Torre
  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. This is the Agenda (...

Creating an X.509 certificate for Windows Azure

November 29, 2011 Nov 29, 2011 11/29/11
Cesar De la Torre
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: - Open the Visual Studio Command Prompt window as an ...

How to explore a Windows Azure Package (How to create it with no encryption)

October 5, 2011 Oct 5, 2011 10/5/11
Cesar De la Torre
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, you need to create a package which is not encrypted. You can do so setting a System Variable (in the Properties menu within &...

New update Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – April Update

April 25, 2011 Apr 25, 2011 04/25/11
Cesar De la Torre
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...

Automatically deploying Azure Connect Agents software

March 31, 2011 Mar 31, 2011 03/31/11
Cesar De la Torre
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&...

Info about SCOM Azure Management Pack

March 21, 2011 Mar 21, 2011 03/21/11
Cesar De la Torre
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://...