{"id":3470,"date":"2012-09-05T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2348616"},"modified":"2012-09-05T14:37:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T14:37:00","slug":"cloud-computing-here-comes-microsofts-cloud-os-trouble-for-vmware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-here-comes-microsofts-cloud-os-trouble-for-vmware\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Here Comes Microsoft\u2019s Cloud OS &amp; Trouble for VMware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft said it would push Windows Server 2012 out the door in early September and it did on Tuesday, after a year of public test builds. It positioned it as the \u201ccornerstone\u201d of its cloud strategy, its \u201cCloud OS\u201d for private and hosted clouds and a building block for Windows Azure.<br \/>\nIt said \u201cthe Cloud OS does what operating systems have always done: manage hardware and provide a platform for applications. But it also expands to include services and technologies that have not previously been considered part of an operating system.\u201d<br \/>\nIn the case of Windows Server, the 2012 model works independently and connects to 200 or so online services available through Azure, stuff like bursting or analytics.<br \/>\nMicrosoft says the widgetry is \u201cbuilt from the cloud up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2348616\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft said it would push Windows Server 2012 out the door in early September and it did on Tuesday, after a year of public test builds. It positioned it as the \u201ccornerstone\u201d of its cloud strategy, its \u201cCloud OS\u201d for private and hosted cloud&#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-3470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470","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=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}