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May 1, 2017
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Microsoft hosts Justice & Public Safety leaders at the 2nd annual CJIS Summit

Rochelle M. Eichner

Transparency is the foundation of Microsoft’s commitment to CJIS Compliance Founded on our commitment of transparency, Microsoft hosted the 2nd annual CJIS Summit, offering leaders in law enforcement the opportunity to collaborate directly with our compliance engineers, executives, and our Justice and Public Safety team. Attendees included law enforcement leaders from sixteen states, representation from the FBI CJIS Division, Diverse Computing Inc.,  and the IJIS Institute . The IJIS Institute provides a trusted venue where leaders from the government and industry come to collaborate on the challenges of advanc...

Apr 24, 2017
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Check us out at Virtual Azure Gov Discovery Day tomorrow!

Spenser Bullock

Strengthen security and compliance, uncover critical insights, and modernize infrastructure with Microsoft Azure Government Checkout the presentations tomorrow for Virtual Azure Gov Discovery Day event! You’ll hear from industry leaders, analysts, and experts featuring Tom Keane, general manager, Microsoft and Steve Michelotti, senior program manager, Azure Government, who discuss how your agency can achieve more while staying compliant and secure with Microsoft Azure Government. Over the course of eight sessions you will see presentations that will help you modernize your agency and kick off your digital transf...

Apr 19, 2017
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The Azure Podcast: featuring Azure Government

Spenser Bullock

In the latest episode of The Azure Podcast, Steve Michelotti of the Azure Government engineering sits down with The Azure Podcast team to discuss the latest and greatest of Azure Government. Steve also provides an update on what is going on in Azure Government including: Check it out! Additional ways to listen: Listen on iTunes Listen on the Azure Podcast We welcome your comments and suggestions to help us continually improve your Azure Government experience. To stay up to date on all things Azure Government, be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed and to receive emails, click “Subscribe by Emai...

Apr 13, 2017
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Azure Gov March Meetup Replay: How to Apply Cognitive Services to Your Agency’s Mission

Karina Homme

For those who could not join us at the Azure Government DC user community’s   March Meetup, we are pleased to bring you the replay of “How to Apply Cognitive Services to Your Agency’s Mission” which took place at 1776 in Washington, DC. The first segment  of the “Meetup Replay” features in-depth demos  on how a user can use Cognitive Services immediately to perform functions such as facial recognition, voice recognition, live translation of languages, image analysis, and face redaction from a video feed –presented by Microsoft’s Steve Michelotti, senior program manager, Azure Government; and Ken Hausman, data ...

Apr 12, 2017
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Cloudera Enterprise Data hub now available on Azure Government Marketplace

Sarah Weldon

Deploy the full power of Cloudera's enterprise data hub on-demand with Cloudera Director, or through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Quickly launch, run, and scale production Hadoop clusters that meet your demanding data workloads. You can also use Cloudera Cent OS Quick Start Templates to deploy to Azure Government Joint Solution Overview Additional resources/ Links https://www.cloudera.com/partners/solutions/microsoft.html We welcome your comments and suggestions to help us continually improve your Azure Government experience. To stay up to date on all things Azure Government, be sure to subs...

Apr 11, 2017
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The CJIS Security Policy – Analyzing the 13 Policy Areas: Part III

Rochelle M. Eichner

Better than a sleeping pill or a riveting read? Welcome back to the third and final post in this series on the CJIS Security Policy. Our last post ended with Policy Area 7 of section 5 concerning Network Diagrams. Policy Area 8 covers Media Protection and how to protect it both in transit and at rest. It also covers the proper way to dispose of media that contains Criminal Justice Information (CJI) when it is no longer needed. Media is considered both digital and physical (paper) in nature. It is also where encryption is defined as the correct way to protect digital media outside a physically secure location. ...

Apr 7, 2017
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Announcing the Azure Government HackFest + Training Event – June 7-8 in Washington, DC

Steve Michelotti

Join us! Microsoft Azure Government HackFest + Training, June 7-8 in Washington, DC. Calling all developers and IT pros in the DC-metro area in the Government space! The Microsoft Azure Government team invites you to register and participate in our HackFest + Training event, June 7-8, at the Microsoft location in Chevy Chase, Maryland. 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 ...

Apr 6, 2017
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Introducing the Azure Government Video Library

Steve Michelotti

The Azure Government team is pleased to announce our new Azure Government Channel on YouTube. This video library is easily searchable on YouTube and is also now linked directly from our Azure Government Blog. The Azure Government video library was originally hosted on Channel9, but was migrated to YouTube in 2018. This video library will contain many helpful videos to get you up and running with Azure Government. Currently, we have several videos published from the recent Microsoft Tech Summit conference in DC. If you missed the Tech Summit, our video library is the #1 place to go to catch up on all the conten...

Apr 5, 2017
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Join Us April 26: Enhancing Government Services Through Advanced Analytics

Karina Homme

Data is all around us, and it is becoming increasingly hard to abstract relevant insights from our data that lead to intelligent action. With this in mind, we invite you to RSVP and join us for a can't-miss Azure Government DC Meetup, Enhancing Government Services Through Advanced Analytics, on Wednesday, April 26 at 1776 in Washington, DC. In one of a couple of case studies, you will hear about advanced analytics capabilities and see how raw data is transformed into actionable insight used to save lives. At the core of this presentation is the recent White House “call to action” around traffic fatalities. Du...