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Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government

Microsoft signs CJIS Security Addendum for Oregon

I was honored to have the opportunity to present on the subject of the Liability of the Data Breach (and how to prevent it) at the Oregon CJIS User Conference in Bend last week.  In the conference opening keynote, Major Tom M. Worthy, Oregon State Police, announced “The Oregon State Police (OSP) is pleased to announce to the Oregon CJIS ...

New high availability checklist now available

We’re happy to announce that we’ve released a new high availability checklist to help you increase the resiliency and availability of your applications in Azure. We know uptime matters to you and Azure gives you great tools and services to help increase your availability. However, we noticed that many people have yet to take full ...

Updated high availability and disaster recovery app design guidance

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve updated our guidance article on disaster recovery and high availability for applications built on Microsoft Azure. We heard from you that one of the most useful documents we provided in designing your applications for Azure was our guidance around designing for high availability and disaster recovery. ...

Updated Azure business continuity technical guidance

We are pleased to announce the update to the resiliency technical guidance documentation for Microsoft Azure. This document was previously called the business continuity technical guidance whitepaper that was posted on MSDN. This document has been updated to provide a better understanding of options with our current service offerings as well ...

New service-level disaster recovery guidance

We are happy to announce the availability of the Microsoft Azure service resiliency guidance page. We created this page because our customers have asked us for clear guidance on what to do when they experienced a service disruption. Since a service disruption can be localized (perhaps an issue on a specific host or even code within a virtual ...