{"id":2642,"date":"2012-07-13T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2313094"},"modified":"2012-07-13T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T12:31:00","slug":"windows-server-painted-azure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/windows-server-painted-azure\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Server Painted Azure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has colored Windows Server 2012 Azure and white-boxed it for service providers and hosting outfits disenfranchised by Amazon, creating in the process a cloud operating system that it can rattle under the nose of the vCloud-pushing VMware.<br \/>\nWhat it\u2019s done exactly is add Azure-y features to Windows Server so service providers can build Azure-like infrastructure clouds out of their Windows Server data centers and offer turnkey cloud services. They don\u2019t have to use Microsoft\u2019s infrastructure. They can have their own branded IaaS clouds.<br \/>\nA newfangled Service Management Portal built into Windows 8\u2019s new Metro user interface can deliver Azure-like services like automated web site hosting, high-scale web sites and Windows or Linux virtual machine hosting. The widgetry\u2019s extensible APIs let developers connect their hosted applications to other people\u2019s specialized services, their own on-premise resources and Windows Azure if they want. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2313094\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has colored Windows Server 2012 Azure and white-boxed it for service providers and hosting outfits disenfranchised by Amazon, creating in the process a cloud operating system that it can rattle under the nose of the vCloud-pushing VMware.<br \/>\nWh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}