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Azure Government Cloud expands P-ATO scope with addition of five new offerings

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Nate Johnson, Sr. Program Manager
(image) We are pleased to announce that Azure’s Government Cloud has expanded its FedRAMP Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO) with the addition of five new offerings. Service Bus, Notification Hubs, Site Recovery, StorSimple, and Backup have all received Joint Authorization Board (JAB) approval for addition to Azure Government’...

Log Analytics: How Operational Management Suite keeps customers safe and secure on Azure

November 15, 2016 Nov 15, 2016 11/15/16
Brian Christopher Harrison
(image) This is my last post in this series where we have been talking about the Operational Management Suite (OMS) within Azure Government and how it can make customers feel safe & secure. In the previous posts we focused on the Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, and Azure Automation services that help make up the suite. Now I want to ...

Automation Runbooks & DSC: How Operational Management Suite keeps Customers Safe & Secure in Azure

November 10, 2016 Nov 10, 2016 11/10/16
Brian Christopher Harrison
(image) In my last post, I talked about the second of the two services within the Operational Management Suit (OMS) that focuses on Backup & Recovery of your On-Prem or Cloud related infrastructure. However, this is only one piece of the operational management footprint that Public Sector customers' IT departments need to keep their ...

Site Recovery: How Operational Management Suite keeps customers safe and secure on Azure

November 9, 2016 Nov 9, 2016 11/9/16
Brian Christopher Harrison
In my last post, I spent some time providing an overview of Operational Management Suite (OMS) and specifically, the Azure Backup service. I tried to focus on the advantages of the suite from the perspective of a potential Azure Government customer as well as the perspective of customers that have already implemented or are implementing a ...

Microsoft Azure Government and Booz Allen Announce Virtual Cloud Defense

November 4, 2016 Nov 4, 2016 11/4/16
Derek Strausbaugh, Principal Program Manager
Cloud Security Suite Brings Power and Simplicity to Securing Cloud Deployments Microsoft and Booz Allen Hamilton are pleased to announce the general availability of Virtual Cloud Defense (VCD) for Azure Government. Virtual Cloud Defense from Booz Allen helps Azure Government customers secure cloud workloads and protect data by deploying cost...

Use Case: Azure Site Recovery in Azure Government

November 1, 2016 Nov 1, 2016 11/1/16
Pishoy Bous, Azure Technical Specialist
An organization must have the ability to withstand all hazards and sustain its mission through environmental changes.  These changes can be gradual, such as economic or mission changes, or sudden, as in a disaster event. (NIST Special Publication 800-34 Rev. 1 Contingency Planning Guide for Federal Information Systems , 2010) Azure ...

Microsoft and Fortinet Extend Partnership to Secure Mission-Critical Workloads in Azure Government Cloud  

October 27, 2016 Oct 27, 2016 10/27/16
Sarah Weldon
(image) Co-author: Chad Whalen – VP Cloud Security, Fortinet Fortinet and Microsoft today announced an extension of their partnership to protect the cloud environments of their joint government customers. The US Federal Government sets the world’s highest security standards for data protection. Other public institutions, like state and...

Preview of New Department of Defense Regions in Azure Government

October 26, 2016 Oct 26, 2016 10/26/16
Derek Strausbaugh, Principal Program Manager
Microsoft is pleased to announce the opening of the Preview of our new Azure Government Department of Defense (DoD) regions. As previously announced by Jason Zander, Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Azure, these regions offer a comprehensive cloud that is DoD information Impact Level 5-ready for infrastructure, platform, and ...

Azure Government – 3x Growth in 2016 and over 75 new capabilities in the last 90 days

October 25, 2016 Oct 25, 2016 10/25/16
Tom Keane, General Manager, Microsoft
Today I am with over 600 of our federal, state and local government customers and partners at the Government Cloud Forum 2016, in Washington D.C. The Forum is queued to take our audiences through breakthrough technology and solutions impacting citizen engagement, the empowerment of government employees, how agencies can optimize their ...