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Microsoft publishes CJIS Implementation Guidelines to help Law Enforcement Agencies

July 19, 2016 Jul 19, 2016 07/19/16
Rochelle M. Eichner
The Criminal Justice Information Services Division (CJIS) Implementation Guidelines is designed to provide insight into the CJIS security controls applicable to Microsoft Cloud services, and provide guidance to law enforcement agencies on where to access detailed information to assist in CJIS audits. This document provides guidelines and ...

SPEC’s CPU2006 benchmarks on Azure

January 7, 2016 Jan 7, 2016 01/7/16
v-ivayal@outlook.com
The CPU2006 suite by SPEC is a complex set of tools and tests that allow the user to measure the performance and throughput of a machine’s CPU. This is done by executing a variety of “tests”, which are executables of real-world scenarios (EG: Compression/decompression of files, Complex quantum chemical computations, 3D Ray ...

Configuring ARM on Azure GC

October 8, 2015 Oct 8, 2015 10/8/15
SteveK-MS
**Update 6-12-2016: We posted additional details on Azure Government and PowerShell here. **Update 4-9-2016: The Azure Module no longer requires switch-mode and as such, these references have been removed. The Azure Government environment is now part of the install and is no longer required to be manually added--these instructions have been ...

How To: Use the Azure CLI with Azure Government

September 29, 2015 Sep 29, 2015 09/29/15
Shawn Weisfeld
UPDATE: official documentation on how to do this can be found here The Azure CLI provides a cross platform command line interface for working with Azure. If you are on Windows you might want to take a look at PowerShell, see Ryan’s post here on how to configure that.   You should ...

Building Media Indexing and Analysis Solutions for Law Enforcement on Azure Government

September 18, 2015 Sep 18, 2015 09/18/15
lamont_harrington@hotmail.com
Introduction In the law enforcement community, the number of media assets continue to grow by the day. From video captured from body worn cameras as well as audio recordings captured from 911 call dispatch and prison inmate phone calls, the prevalence of media assets within the law enforcement community is becoming a critical business asset to...

What type of SQL on Azure is right for me?

August 31, 2015 Aug 31, 2015 08/31/15
Shawn Weisfeld
***** NOTE: take a look at this video, while not Azure Gov specific, it goes into much more depth on this topic: https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/SAIIK-SQL-Server-on-Azure-IaaS-Implementation-Kit/SAIIK-PaaS-vs-IaaS   I get asked this question frequently by customers. Figured I would share my thoughts on the topic with you guys, and some...

Deciding on the right number of Azure Subscriptions for your ISV solution

July 2, 2015 Jul 2, 2015 07/2/15
Shawn Weisfeld
I work with a number of independent software vendors (ISVs) that are building solutions for or moving existing solutions to Azure. After they see our enterprise portal, I commonly get a question on if they need to separate their workload across multiple subscriptions. The answer to this question is complicated and depends a lot on how the ...