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In this episode of the Azure Government video series, Steve Michelotti talks with Anthony Robbins (Vice President, Public Sector, NVIDIA) about the background of GPUs and NVIDIA’s involvement in expanding GPU usage. Then, dive into key scenarios and use cases applicable to government customers, before learning about GPU capabilities available in Az...

Government agencies need to be able to get detailed granular consumption data and derive insights to effectively manage their cloud consumption. The Resource Usage and RateCard APIs provide Azure Government customer access to their Azure consumption and pricing details: To get started with this APIs leverage the billing API code samples on ...

Defense department senior leaders have directed DoD to adopt cloud computing to support the warfighter, a direction that will help build a stronger foundation of cybersecurity. The partnership with a dedicated, certified cloud provider can be pivotal. But given the breadth of these solutions, where should the DoD turn? In the new defense context...

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. However, the D...

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/ ASGs provide m...

In this episode of the Azure Government videos series, we explore Azure Monitor on Azure Government. What is Azure Monitor? What are its main features and capabilities? What sources are relevant? We answers all these questions and more in this demo-heavy session focused on giving you everything you need to know to get started quickly with Azure Mon...

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 GPUs in Azure...

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 cloud provide...

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, Citri...

In this episode of the Azure Government video series, Steve Michelotti talks with Gerardo Saca about running containers with Kubernetes on Azure Government. The discussion starts off with the basics: what are containers and how are they useful? Then Gerardo goes into more depth about Orchestrators and why they are important. After the brief opening...