Azure Government

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Announcements - Azure Government

Fast Deduplication with NetBackup CloudCatalyst for the Azure Government Cloud

June 7, 2018 Jun 7, 2018 06/7/18
Azure Gov Team
(image) Got Back Up? Anyone who has a basement or even a closet in their home, knows the sometimes painful necessity of clearing out space and managing storage. Government agencies embarking on digital transformation can also feel the pain of runaway costs due to storage accumulation for backups. With Veritas NetBackup 8.1 in Azure ...

Microsoft + GitHub = Empowering Developers

June 5, 2018 Jun 5, 2018 06/5/18
Azure Gov Team
(image) Yesterday, we announced an agreement to acquire GitHub, the world’s leading software development platform. Developers are at center of solving the world’s most pressing challenges. The era of the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge is upon us. Computing is becoming embedded in the world, with every part of our daily life and ...

Modernize Citizen Services with AvePoint

May 24, 2018 May 24, 2018 05/24/18
Azure Gov Team
Advancements in technology can challenge government agencies to meet rising citizen expectations. At the same time, they provide an opportunity for agencies to modernize operations, becoming more responsive, transparent, and efficient. AvePoint, who won the 2017 Microsoft Partner of the Year award for Public Sector: Microsoft CityNext, offers...

Announcing general availability of Azure API Management in Microsoft Azure Government

May 21, 2018 May 21, 2018 05/21/18
Azure Gov Team
We are pleased to announce that Azure API Management is now generally available in Microsoft Azure Government. API Management is a turnkey, full-lifecycle solution for publishing APIs to external and internal consumers. Customers use API Management to quickly create consistent and modern API gateways for existing back-end services hosted ...

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 ...