Azure Government

Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government

October 2017 - Azure Government

Azure Gov Meetup Replay: Intersection of Cybersecurity & Digital Transformation for Gov  

October 25, 2017 Oct 25, 2017 10/25/17
Karina Homme
Recently, a crowd of more than 120 people turned out for the Azure Gov DC user community Meetup on the Intersection of Cybersecurity & Digital Transformation at 1776 in Washington, DC. For those who were not able to join us for the event we are pleased to bring you the replay of the event. Segment 1: Kicks off with Azure Government ...

Join us at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference in Washington, DC

October 24, 2017 Oct 24, 2017 10/24/17
Kyle Deeds, Program Manager
Are you attending NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference, Nov. 1-2, at the Ronald Reagan International and Trade Building in Washington, DC? If so, we invite you to our session, AI, HPC Infrastructure & Visualizations on Microsoft Azure Government at on Nov. 1, 1:30 - 2:20 p.m. in Hemisphere B to learn about advancements of GPU capabilities ...

Utilizing the cloud for greater security everywhere

October 24, 2017 Oct 24, 2017 10/24/17
Susie Adams
(image) In my day-to-day work, I help government agencies implement initiatives to protect, detect and respond to breaches. You've likely heard statistics - on average globally, it takes 191 days to identify a data breach and that the median number of days an attacker stays dormant within a network before detection is over 200. To put that in ...

Announcing new Azure Government capabilities for classified mission-critical workloads

October 18, 2017 Oct 18, 2017 10/18/17
Karina Homme
Microsoft is partnering with the U.S. Government in the journey to the cloud, providing both infrastructure (IaaS) and platform (PaaS) offerings to enable digital transformation. Our government customers are responsible for the most sensitive data and the most critical applications in the country. We're continuously expanding our support for ...

Department of Justice Issues a FedRAMP High ATO for Azure Government

October 17, 2017 Oct 17, 2017 10/17/17
Matt Rathbun
The Department of Justice (DOJ) Justice Management Division (JMD) has issued two FedRAMP High ATOs for Azure Government. The DOJ performs critical services for U.S. Citizens with the mission "[t]o enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to...

Azure Security Center coming to Azure Government

October 17, 2017 Oct 17, 2017 10/17/17
Sarah Fender, Azure Security Engineering
(image) While cyber threats affect every organization and every individual, governments face unique challenges. Today, we are announcing Azure Security Center, which provides unified security management and advanced threat protection for hybrid cloud workloads, will be coming to Azure Government. From simplified management to new ways to ...

Deploy VDI in Azure Government

October 17, 2017 Oct 17, 2017 10/17/17
Steve Downs
Many of our state, local, and federal customers have asked us to help move their Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) users into Azure Government. Windows 10 in the Marketplace, plus Managed Disks, simplifies your ability to deploy VDI solutions within Azure Government and Citrix provides several options to help you deliver user workloads from...