Azure Government
Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government
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Announcing new Azure Government capabilities for classified mission-critical workloads
Microsoft is partnering with the U.S. Government in the journey to the cloud, providing both infrastructure (IaaS) and platform (PaaS) offerings to enable digital transformation. Our government customers are responsible for the most sensitive data and the most critical applications in the country. We're continuously expanding our support for highly-classified workloads, delivering advanced technologies like Blockchain and support for High Performance Computing, and increasing our available security capabilities with Azure Security Center. In addition, were launching Citrix VDI on Azure Government to help our gov...
Win10 Enterprise Now Available on Azure Government!
We are excited to announce that Windows 10 can be deployed from Azure Government Marketplace. You can now run Windows 10 to run Dev/Test scenarios or with your Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution, all in your Azure Government Subscription. To get started, select Windows10 in the Portal to deploy, and click create, follow the steps in the opened blade. Win10 Client is a Pro image out of the box, but you can upgrade it to Enterprise through the steps below. Customers activate the Enterprise version to unlock Windows Enterprise features for use with VDI. Requirements for Enterprise activation: Cu...
Department of Justice Issues a FedRAMP High ATO for Azure Government
The Department of Justice (DOJ) Justice Management Division (JMD) has issued two FedRAMP High ATOs for Azure Government. The DOJ performs critical services for U.S. Citizens with the mission "[t]o enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans." JMD is the principal organizational unit responsible for management...
Deploy VDI in Azure Government
Many of our state, local, and federal customers have asked us to help move their Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) users into Azure Government. Windows 10 in the Marketplace, plus Managed Disks, simplifies your ability to deploy VDI solutions within Azure Government and Citrix provides several options to help you deliver user workloads from the cloud. Extend your existing Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop environment into Azure Government Coming soon, you will be able to provision Windows 10 and Server 2016 desktops directly from your on-premises Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop infrastructure into Azure Government. This sc...
Azure Security Center coming to Azure Government
While cyber threats affect every organization and every individual, governments face unique challenges. Today, we are announcing Azure Security Center, which provides unified security management and advanced threat protection for hybrid cloud workloads, will be coming to Azure Government. From simplified management to new ways to block and detect threats, Security Center continues to innovate to help solve today's security challenges. Security Center will help Azure Government customers: Today, we are happy to announce the general availability of new Security & Audit capabilities in Azu...
Data Science Virtual Machines are now available on Azure Government Cloud
This post was co-authored by: Gopi Kumar, Principal Program Manager, AI and Research For any questions, feel free to contact Gopi on Twitter: @zenlytix We are happy to announce the availability of the Data Science Virtual Machine on Microsoft Azure Government Cloud. Microsoft's Data Science Virtual Machine (DSVM) is a family of popular VM images published on Azure with a broad choice of machine learning, AI and data science tools. All the tools are pre-configured giving you a ready-to-use, on-demand, elastic environment in the cloud to help you perform data analytics and AI development productively. You focu...
National Cyber Security Awareness Month
In support of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security, we're kicking off a blog series to share best practices from our experiences with our customers as part of our commitment to enabling U.S. government with a complete, trusted, and secure cloud platform. In today's guest blog, Ann Johnson, Microsoft Vice President, Strategic, Enterprise, & Cybersecurity (SEC), shares some historical context into the challenges of security management, providing insights into how the capabilities of the cloud changes the game for security management. We also invite you to j...
Azure Government Los Angeles Hackfest + Training Recap
We are excited to share that following our first two successful HackFests in Sacramento and DC, we have just completed another successful event in Los Angeles, hosting 72 attendees! There was a lot of buzz in the air as the Microsoft Team set the stage for the HackFest by providing overviews on Big Data, Cognitive Services, Xamarin mobile development, and deploying both Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). Of specific note, the attendees showed a great deal of enthusiasm around bot frameworks after being introduced to CHIP, LA's virtual assistant. Big Data and Cognitive Services we...
Join us Oct. 18! The Intersection of Cybersecurity & Digital Transformation for Gov
For government, cybersecurity isn't only a challenge-it can be a roadblock standing in the path of long-awaited digital transformation. Agencies are tasked with balancing the highest security measures with innovation, as today's employees and citizens alike insist that their data be conveniently available anytime, anywhere. RSVP & join us, Wednesday, October 18, 6 - 8:30 p.m. at 1776 in Washington, DC, for this special-edition Azure Gov Meetup on "The Intersection of Cybersecurity & Digital Transformation for Gov." Featured speaker This can't-miss Meetup features Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Azure ...