Microsoft announced new training, tools and other programs that enable partners to deliver compelling new cloud services to their customers.
The firm said the new technologies enable hosting service providers to use their Windows Server data centers to deliver capabilities consistent with services running in Windows Azure.
With the new CTP, hosting service providers can offer customers turnkey cloud services, including high-scale websites and virtual machine hosting with an extensible self-service portal experience.
These capabilities, which run on Windows Server 2012 and Microsoft System Center 2012, will offer hosting providers some of the same experiences and services recently announced by Windows Azure.
Go Daddy, the largest global Web hoster, is piloting these new capabilities to deliver new cloud services for customers.