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Cloudera Enterprise Data hub now available on Azure Government Marketplace

April 12, 2017 Apr 12, 2017 04/12/17
Sarah Weldon
(image) Deploy the full power of Cloudera's enterprise data hub on-demand with Cloudera Director, or through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Quickly launch, run, and scale production Hadoop clusters that meet your demanding data workloads. You can also use Cloudera Cent OS Quick Start Templates to deploy to Azure Government Joint Solution ...

The CJIS Security Policy – Analyzing the 13 Policy Areas: Part III

April 11, 2017 Apr 11, 2017 04/11/17
Rochelle M. Eichner
Better than a sleeping pill or a riveting read? Welcome back to the third and final post in this series on the CJIS Security Policy. Our last post ended with Policy Area 7 of section 5 concerning Network Diagrams. Policy Area 8 covers Media Protection and how to protect it both in transit and at rest. It also covers the proper way to dispose...

Announcing the Azure Government HackFest + Training Event – June 7-8 in Washington, DC

April 7, 2017 Apr 7, 2017 04/7/17
Steve Michelotti
(image) Join us! Microsoft Azure Government HackFest + Training, June 7-8 in Washington, DC. Calling all developers and IT pros in the DC-metro area in the Government space! The Microsoft Azure Government team invites you to register and participate in our HackFest + Training event, June 7-8, at the Microsoft location in Chevy Chase, ...

Join Us April 26: Enhancing Government Services Through Advanced Analytics

April 5, 2017 Apr 5, 2017 04/5/17
Karina Homme
Data is all around us, and it is becoming increasingly hard to abstract relevant insights from our data that lead to intelligent action. With this in mind, we invite you to RSVP and join us for a can't-miss Azure Government DC Meetup, Enhancing Government Services Through Advanced Analytics, on Wednesday, April 26 at 1776 in Washington, DC...

Introducing the Azure Environment Selector Visual Studio extension

April 5, 2017 Apr 5, 2017 04/5/17
Steve Michelotti
Visual Studio has many tools that enable developers to easily interact with Azure. These are tools like the Cloud Explorer for Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio Server Explorer, the main Visual Studio login, and even being able to right-click in the Visual Studio Solution Explorer to deploy a web project to Azure.  However, by default, these ...

The CJIS Security Policy – Analyzing the 13 Policy Areas: Part II

April 4, 2017 Apr 4, 2017 04/4/17
Rochelle M. Eichner
 Better than a sleeping pill or a riveting read? In our last blog post, Alan Ferretti, CJIS Security Analyst and Subject Matter Expert of the CJIS ACE Division at Diverse Computing, and I covered the first four sections of the CJIS Security Policy. We will continue with Section 5 and its thirteen Policy areas and how they impact you and your...

Data security Q&A with John Molesky, Azure Security Engineering

March 30, 2017 Mar 30, 2017 03/30/17
Pishoy Bous, Azure Technical Specialist
In this post, we interviewed Azure Program Manager, John Molesky, from the Cloud Health and Security Engineering team with commonly asked questions regarding data security.  For many customers, moving to the cloud means a change in processes to manage data, including data destruction and spillage. John's answers help address those concerns...

Microsoft Azure IaaS Architecture Best Practices for ARM

March 29, 2017 Mar 29, 2017 03/29/17
CSAJefLan
How to design and build an enterprise infrastructure in Azure using the Azure Resource Manager portal Getting started in Azure is easy to do, and you can have production workloads running in the cloud in very little time. However, there are some essential aspects of the Azure platform that require some forethought and planning. While it is ...

The CJIS Security Policy – Analyzing the 13 Policy Areas: Part I

March 28, 2017 Mar 28, 2017 03/28/17
Rochelle M. Eichner
Better than a sleeping pill or a riveting read? Recently Alan Ferretti and I were talking about compliance for agencies and lamented on the fact that most people malign  the CJIS Security Policy as a good cure for insomnia. It seems you can’t attend a conference where a speaker doesn’t make a joke about it. When in fact, the Policy is ...