Azure Government
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Join us! Microsoft Azure Government HackFest + Training, October 3-4 in Washington, DC
After the great success of our first Azure Government HackFest + Training event in Washington, DC - and our highly anticipated second Azure Government HackFest + Training event in Sacramento, CA - we are now happy to announce our third HackFest event - this time back in Washingon, DC! Register now for this can't-miss opportunity that features one day of training presentations by members of the Microsoft Azure Government Engineering team followed by an all-day HackFest for all experience levels. (yes, ALL are welcome - newcomers to experienced developers - in this friendly and supportive HackFest environment!)...
Join Us: How to Accelerate Connected Citizen Services
Citizens today are more connected that ever before; increasingly expecting anytime, anywhere access to government services and information - via online, mobile and/or social. To continue to best serve and engage ever-connected citizens, government organizations and their industry partners must deliver innovative apps and mobile services that are highly secure and provide a user-friendly experience. With these opportunities in mind, the Azure Government DC user community invites you to RSVP and join us Wednesday, Aug. 30th for "How to Accelerate Connected Citizen Services" at 1776 in Washington DC. You'll hea...
Azure NC Virtual Machines Availability – GPU Compute
Azure NC-based instances are powered by NVIDIA Tesla® K80 GPUs and provide the compute power required to accelerate the most demanding high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads. Customers can now use these instances to run deep learning training jobs, HPC simulations, rendering, real-time data analytics, DNA sequencing, and many more CUDA® accelerated tasks. Additionally, customers have the option to utilize RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) over InfiniBand for scaling jobs across multiple instances. InfiniBand provides close to bare-metal performance even when scaling out to 10s, 100s, or even 1,000s of...
Azure Government ExpressRoute
In this episode of the Azure Government video series, Steve Michelotti talks with James Walters about Azure Government ExpressRoute. James starts out by explaining what ExpressRoute is and what the primary benefits are for government customers. He also clarifies the difference between ExpressRoute for commercial versus Government and the DoD. Steve and James discuss how and where the data is encrypted over the wire and how customers can optionally add additional security if they choose. James concludes by explaining how government agencies can get started with setting up ExpressRoute and the available options. ...
Meetup Replay: Advancing Digital Government in the Cloud
This guest blog post is written by Vishwas Lele from Applied Information Sciences (AIS). AIS provides software and systems engineering services to government agencies and businesses across the United States. They specialize in cloud services, DevOps, custom application development and IT services. For additional information please visit www.appliedis.com It's no secret that cloud computing is empowering organizations to deliver better government faster. This idea of advancing digital government was indeed the theme of our last Meetup in July 26 Microsoft Azure Gov DC Meetup at 1776 in Washington, DC with more th...
Microsoft Azure Enables NIST CSF Compliance: Respond Function
Today, as part of our ongoing support of the Cybersecurity Executive Order, I am pleased to announce the second release in a series of documents on enabling compliance with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) through Microsoft Azure services. This release specifically outlines how to implement the Respond function requirements using the services offered by Azure. The Whitepaper is available on the Service Trust Portal under "Compliance Guides". We will publish a similar guide for each of the remaining CSF Function areas in the coming weeks. Microsoft is committed to assisting our Federal customers, who must c...
Azure Site Recovery available in DoD and New Azure Government Regions
We are pleased to announce the availability of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) to all Azure government regions in the United States. With this expansion, Azure Site Recovery is now available in all Azure government regions (US DOD Central, US DOD East, US Gov Arizona, US Gov Texas, US Gov Iowa, and US Gov Virginia). Customers can now select any of these regions to deploy ASR with the same reliability and performance levels as set forth in the ASR SLA. Azure Site Recovery reduces the complexity involved in setting up disaster recovery and helps you stay compliant by having a business continuity plan in place to keep ap...
Azure Backup now available in US DoD and Azure Government Regions
Today we are announcing the expansion of Azure Backup to DoD and additional Azure Government regions. This expansion makes Azure Backup available in all Azure Government regions (US DOD Central, US DOD East, US Gov Texas, US Gov Arizona, US Gov Iowa, US Gov Virginia). Azure Backup can backup (or protect) and restore your data in Microsoft cloud. Azure Backup enables Azure IaaS VM backup as well as replace your existing on-premises or off-site backup solution with a cloud-based solution that is reliable, secure, and cost-competitive. Customers in the above listed regions can now use Azure Backup with same reliabi...
Microsoft Azure leads the industry in ISO certifications
We are happy to announce that Microsoft Azure recently completed a new set of independent third-party ISO and Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) audits to expand our certification portfolio. Azure leads the industry with the most comprehensive compliance coverage, enabling customers to meet a wide range of regulatory obligations. If that were not enough, having a program with industry leading depth and coverage specific to ISO is exponentially useful to our customers globally as ISO standards provide baselines for information security management that are relied upon by many other standards across regulated industries ...