{"id":7018,"date":"2013-04-17T08:35:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T08:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/apr\/17\/microsoft-fronts-cloud-battle-infrastructure-services-release\/"},"modified":"2013-04-17T08:35:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T08:35:27","slug":"microsoft-fronts-up-for-cloud-battle-with-infrastructure-services-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/microsoft-fronts-up-for-cloud-battle-with-infrastructure-services-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft fronts up for cloud battle with Infrastructure Services release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has stepped up its cloud push by releasing Windows Azure Infrastructure Services this week, and pricing it in direct competition with Amazon Web Services (AWS).<\/p>\n<p>Infrastructure Services is designed to help Windows Azure customers migrate their applications into the cloud, and, as the title suggests, it is primarily an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solution &ndash; although it encompasses both platform as a service (PaaS) and hybrid scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our announcement today is a significant step in our cloud computing strategy, which has been influenced directly by our discussions with customers and partners around the world,&rdquo; Bill Hilf, general manager of Windows Azure, wrote in an Azure blog.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&rsquo;s cloud agenda has been evident for some time, with CloudTech previously reporting on the tech giant&rsquo;s set at Convergence 2013, whereby hotly anticipated releases such as Exchange Server, Lync and Dynamics CRM continue to emphasise the roadmap for a cloud &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has stepped up its cloud push by releasing Windows Azure Infrastructure Services this week, and pricing it in direct competition with Amazon Web Services (AWS).<br \/>\nInfrastructure Services is designed to help Windows Azure customers migrate their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}