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Team Foundation Server in Azure Government
Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is a great platform for orchestrating your DevOps. It makes it easy to mix and match the tools you like to use for your CI/CD environment while providing a hosted platform for tying it all together. However, the Software as a Service (SaaS) version of VSTS is not always the right choice. Specifically, an organization may want to keep their DevOps server private or the organization may be deployed in the Microsoft Azure Government cloud where VSTS is not yet available. In that scenario it makes sense to deploy Team Foundation Server (TFS). A typical TFS deployment includes the T...
Unlock data insights to drive agency mission
Now more than ever, federal CIOs can leverage business intelligence (BI) and advanced analytics to simplify data management, unlock valuable insights, and use these insights to improve operations across their agencies. Advanced analytics allows CIOs to connect available data to their agency’s larger mission. Sophisticated tools and techniques enable CIOs to simultaneously extend the capabilities and influence of their departments, and make strategic, data-driven recommendations to other leaders regarding government initiatives. And with open access to data and analysis, employees across all departments – incl...
Azure Government Technical Community
In this episode of the Azure Government video series, Steve Michelotti talks with Gerardo Saca of the Azure Government Engineering team about the Azure Government technical community. Are you a developer or IT Pro that considers yourself a part of the Azure Government technical community? If not, why not? Steve and Saca talk about numerous ways you can get involved in the Azure Government community. Where can you go to get your questions answered about what services are available in Azure Government and what is coming up? What if you have a technical question you want to ask, or you want to get further technical ...
Join us Nov. 29! Gov Cloud Migration Strategies & Creating a Culture of Change
While cloud is becoming the new normal for government, agencies are still challenged with the daunting task of IT modernization and developing a cohesive cloud migration strategy. Oftentimes, what’s holding back progress is that there isn’t a one-size-fits-all cloud playbook. That, combined with agency culture, hinders many agencies from making their move to cloud. Please RSVP and join the Azure Government DC user community Wednesday, Nov. 29, 6 – 8:30 p.m., for a Meetup on Gov Cloud Migration Strategies & Creating a Culture of Change featuring government and industry experts who will share best practices ...
Creating a Secure Space for IoT in Government
IoT is multi-dimensional and flexible in the way it can improve agency function and bring nuanced approaches to citizen services, all while existing on a secure platform. With IoT, you are connecting to a vast web of devices such as street cameras, monitoring tools, and a wide array of other “things.” This also presents a unique obstacle when it comes to security. Every time a new device is added to the network, a new vulnerability is potentially introduced. IDC’s recent report, How Government Organizations Are Looking at IoT, outlines consideration for CIOs when choosing an IoT software and service provider....
Identity in Azure Government
In this episode of the Azure Government video series, Steve Michelotti talks with Bernie Ellis from the Azure Government Engineering team about Identity on Azure Government. Bernie starts out by talking about the three different Identity models and the things you need to know for each of the scenarios. Bernie also discusses available protocols in Azure Active Directory for Azure Government. Steve and Bernie also discuss in-depth the scenarios around authenticating an app running on Azure Government across different scenarios including AAD for Office 365. If you’ve been having questions on Identity on Azure Gover...
Is Mission Driving Your Cloud Strategy?
In working with federal agencies, we’re seeing a new level of maturity in terms of the ability to use the cloud to dramatically impact mission, achieving much more than just cost savings. For example, the U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs Access to Care allows Veterans, caregivers and the public to access wait time and quality of care measures across the health care industry. This tool is designed with transparency in mind – taking highly complex data and making it easily available to Veterans and the public. To accelerate your agency’s ability to use the cloud to drive innovation and agility for your mis...
Building Real World Solution on Azure Government with Machine Learning
In this episode of the Azure Government video series, Steve Michelotti sits down to talk with Vishwas Lele, CTO, Applied Information Sciences, about building real world solutions on Azure Government with Machine Learning. Vishwas describes a solution built for a classified customer in which machine learning is used to provide recommendations on relevant news articles for analysts. The machine learning functionality of the solution was provided by Microsoft Machine Learning Server (formerly known as Microsoft R Server) which is directly callable from C# code! In addition to the machine learning aspects, the soluti...
Benefits of Blockchain for Government Agencies
Kevin Leffew is a Solution Specialist for Microsoft for US SLG with a specialization in Blockchain and the Modern Workplace. You can find him writing about all things related to blockchain, distributed systems, and digital identity on his blog (https://medium.com/@kleffew) and on Twitter @kleffew94 In today's rapidly modernizing economy, the digital transformation of government organizations is absolutely key for improving efficiency and sustaining the overall health of each agency. At Microsoft, we view digital transformation strategy as the core driver in improvements to productivity, efficiency, and coll...