{"id":15624,"date":"2013-10-19T09:40:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T08:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=15624"},"modified":"2013-10-19T09:40:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T08:40:55","slug":"windows-azure-pack-wap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=15624","title":{"rendered":"Windows Azure Pack (WAP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Formerly known as Windows Azure Services for Windows Server (a mouthful and not very meaningful), the Windows Azure Pack has been released with Windows Server and System Center 2013 R2.&#160; The goal of WAP is to bring the portal of Windows Azure, Microsoft\u2019s public cloud, to the clouds of service providers and even on-premise private clouds.&#160; With WAP you can deploy the difficult to obtain trait of a cloud: self-service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image_thumb8.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There appears to be a lot of information on WAP out there now.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/server-cloud\/products\/windows-azure-pack\/\" target=\"_blank\">The WAP Portal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/0\/1\/C\/01C728DF-B1DD-4A9E-AC5A-2C565AA37730\/Windows_Azure_Pack_White_Paper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">WAP White Paper<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/9\/B\/4\/9B42F2A5-9C1D-47C6-AB37-DDBD78F5D15E\/Windows_Azure_Pack_Datasheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">WAP Datasheet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dn296435.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">TechNet Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/download\/details.aspx?id=40792\" target=\"_blank\">Downloadable technical documentation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:8b828f56-9397-41b2-a7f9-0e995afc4b1c\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2012+R2\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2012 R2<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/System+Center\" rel=\"tag\">System Center<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hyper-V\" rel=\"tag\">Hyper-V<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Virtualisation\" rel=\"tag\">Virtualisation<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Cloud\" rel=\"tag\">Cloud<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formerly known as Windows Azure Services for Windows Server (a mouthful and not very meaningful), the Windows Azure Pack has been released with Windows Server and System Center 2013 R2.&#160; The goal of WAP is to bring the portal of Windows Azure, Microsoft\u2019s public cloud, to the clouds of service providers and even on-premise private &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=15624\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows Azure Pack (WAP)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[172,181,193,195,120],"class_list":["post-15624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-cloud","tag-hyper-v","tag-system-center","tag-virtualisation","tag-windows-server-2012-r2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}