Azure Government

Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government

April 2018 - Azure Government

A hybrid approach for the Department of Defense

April 26, 2018 Apr 26, 2018 04/26/18
Azure Gov Team
(image) Today, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is taking significant steps to modernize existing systems, opening the door for the use of emerging technologies to increase speed and agility. Accelerating adoption of cloud technologies is critical to the DoD’s ability to maintain the long-term strategic advantage of US military forces...

Application Security Groups now generally available in Azure Government

April 25, 2018 Apr 25, 2018 04/25/18
Mike Ketchum
We are pleased to announce general availability of Application Security Groups (ASG) in all Azure regions including Azure Government. This feature provides security micro-segmentation for your virtual networks in Azure. The detailed announcement can be viewed here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/applicationsecuritygroups/ (image) ...

Announcing new GPUs in Azure Government with NV-Series

April 19, 2018 Apr 19, 2018 04/19/18
Kyle Deeds, Program Manager
We’re excited to announce that NV-Series virtual machines are now generally available in US Gov Virginia. NV-Series is designed to support visualization scenarios which enables customers to use NVIDIA® Tesla® M60 GPUs and NVIDIA® GRID in Azure for desktop accelerated applications and virtual desktops. With these powerful visualization ...

Announcing the launch of Azure M-series VMs with up to 4TB RAM in USGov Virginia region

April 18, 2018 Apr 18, 2018 04/18/18
Kyle Deeds, Program Manager
We are excited to announce the launch of Azure M-series Virtual Machines in the USGov Virginia region. Azure M-series VMs offer memory up to 4 TB on a single VM with configurations of 64 or 128 hyper-threaded vCPUs, powered by Intel® Xeon® 2.5 GHz E7-8890 v3 processors. We’re also excited to announce that Azure is the first hyperscale ...

Register for webinar on 4/19: Deploying Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop in Azure

April 16, 2018 Apr 16, 2018 04/16/18
Steve Downs
Are you interesting in learning best practices for deploying Citrix XenApp or XenDesktop in Azure? Check out our first webinar on this topic from February and register below for part two of this series on April 19th at 06:00 AM PT (9:00 AM ET) and 11:00 AM PT (2:00 PM ET). Jeff Mitchell, Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect, and Kevin Nardone, ...