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Announcing Azure Security Center availability for Azure Government customers

October 2nd, 2018
As government agencies confront increased cyber threats, there is mounting pressure to build stronger defenses for their data, networks, and IT infrastructure. Today, we are announcing that Microsoft Azure Security Center is generally available and ready to help Azure Government customers with their cybersecurity challenges. With Azure ...

Azure preparedness for hurricane Florence

September 12th, 2018
Hurricane Florence: Please refer to the Azure blog post about Azure Preparedness, available at aka.ms/Florence...

Solving one of the most common VDI challenges: complexity

September 4th, 2018
Today we’re sharing a guest post by Jose Arvelo, Workplace & Managed Services Practice Manager at Accelera Solutions. He is responsible for leading Accelera’s end user computing and managed services team, focused on helping customers transform their workplace with virtualization, mobility, and cloud solutions. After 16 years deploying...

Announcing Azure Stack for Azure Government customers to enable IT modernization and tactical edge scenarios

August 13th, 2018
This post was contributed by Natalia Mackevicius, Program Director, Azure Stack at Microsoft. Today, we’re announcing that Microsoft Azure Stack is now available to order for Azure Government customers. It was just a few months ago we shared our plans to integrate Azure Stack with our government-only cloud offering so agencies can benefit ...

Bots in Azure Government

August 6th, 2018
This blog was contributed by guest author Russ Williams, Cloud Solution Architect   So you've heard the buzz about bots and "conversational AI" at Microsoft's Build 2018 Conference. You're starting to get excited about ideas you have for bots in your organization.  But then you learn that Azure Government doesn't support the Azure Bot ...

CIS Hardened Images now available in Azure Government

August 6th, 2018
Overview of CIS Hardened Images As more government workloads shift from on-premises to cloud-based environments, virtual images (sometimes called virtual machines images) are gaining momentum as a cost-effective option for projects with limited resources to purchase, store, and maintain hardware. A virtual image is a template of an operating ...

Nasuni supports Azure Government for more scalable file storage and improved cross-office collaboration

August 1st, 2018
This blog is a guest post by Tom Rose, vice president, Product Marketing, Nasuni - Microsoft Azure Global ISV of the Year. Nasuni's cloud file services platform is backed by Azure object storage and helps government agencies store, archive, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on fast-growing unstructured data at scale. (image) This ...

Trusted Internet Connection guidance for Azure IaaS and PaaS solutions

July 30th, 2018
This post was contributed by Susie Adams, Chief Technology Officer Microsoft Federal, and Diego Lapiduz, Chief Information Security Architect - Azure Government at Microsoft. Many government customers that are working to optimize security in the cloud have asked for guidance on how to align with the policies set by the Trusted Internet ...

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

July 26th, 2018
We are excited to announce the launch of Azure M-series Virtual Machines in the USGov Virginia region. Azure M-series VMs offer memory from 192 GB up to 4 TB on a single VM with configurations from 8 to 128 hyper-threaded vCPUs, powered by Intel® Xeon® 2.5 GHz E7-8890 v3 processors. The Azure M-series is perfectly suited for your in-memory...

New services and Azure Government marketplace partners

July 11th, 2018
(image) This summer we’re continuing to bring new services into Azure Government to support the innovation happening in the public sector. We would like to announce the following new services, with more coming soon: Azure Media Services is now generally available in Azure Government. Media Services makes it easy to use high-definition ...