Azure Government
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Microsoft Azure Government and Booz Allen Announce Virtual Cloud Defense
Cloud Security Suite Brings Power and Simplicity to Securing Cloud Deployments Microsoft and Booz Allen Hamilton are pleased to announce the general availability of Virtual Cloud Defense (VCD) for Azure Government. Virtual Cloud Defense from Booz Allen helps Azure Government customers secure cloud workloads and protect data by deploying cost-effective cloud workload protection and security services. VCD builds upon Microsoft Azure’s unprecedented investments in cloud security and compliance and integrates third party best-of-breed, commercially available and government solutions provided through the Azure Gover...
DoD Region Preview frequently asked questions
Since announcing our Azure Government DoD Region Preview last week at Microsoft’s Government Cloud Forum, we have had overwhelming interest from customers and partners in participating. We’ve spent time compiling answers to the most frequently ask questions we’ve heard to help customers and partners understand what this unprecedented investment from Microsoft means to the Department of Defense and its partners and how to qualify for access to the environment. What are the Azure Government DoD Regions? The US DoD East and US DoD Central regions are physically separated regions of Microsoft Azure architected to...
Use Case: Azure Site Recovery in Azure Government
An organization must have the ability to withstand all hazards and sustain its mission through environmental changes. These changes can be gradual, such as economic or mission changes, or sudden, as in a disaster event. (NIST Special Publication 800-34 Rev. 1 Contingency Planning Guide for Federal Information Systems , 2010) Azure Government enables customers to utilize Azure Site Recovery (ASR) capabilities to automate protection and replication of virtual machines, both on-premises and into Azure providing a true Disaster Recovery as a Service Solution (DRaaS). Azure Site Recovery allows for data replication...
Microsoft and Fortinet Extend Partnership to Secure Mission-Critical Workloads in Azure Government Cloud Â
Co-author: Chad Whalen – VP Cloud Security, Fortinet Fortinet and Microsoft today announced an extension of their partnership to protect the cloud environments of their joint government customers. The US Federal Government sets the world’s highest security standards for data protection. Other public institutions, like state and local governments, police, and fire departments, follow these standards as well to protect the citizenry they serve. Partnering to Deliver Cloud Security for Government Organizations Fortinet and Microsoft are committed to delivering world-class security to Azure cloud workloads. With...
New Azure Government Documentation!
We are happy to announce Azure Government documentation! This documentation provides guidance that is tailored to our Azure Government customers. We highlight common solutions and guidance on building government specific implementations, as well as information that you need to know about using services, Marketplace, Portal and PowerShell in Azure Government. This is just the start! Many more updates are planned as we continually expand our offerings for Azure Government. As new services come online, we will update the corresponding documentation. Over the coming months we will add additional content on h...
Preview of New Department of Defense Regions in Azure Government
Microsoft is pleased to announce the opening of the Preview of our new Azure Government Department of Defense (DoD) regions. As previously announced by Jason Zander, Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Azure, these regions offer a comprehensive cloud that is DoD information Impact Level 5-ready for infrastructure, platform, and productivity services. Microsoft is the only hyperscale cloud provider to provide this level of support to the DoD as we continue to demonstrate our commitment to invest in the most trusted, comprehensive cloud for government. This is reflected in our announcement yesterday by...
Azure Government – 3x Growth in 2016 and over 75 new capabilities in the last 90 days
Today I am with over 600 of our federal, state and local government customers and partners at the Government Cloud Forum 2016, in Washington D.C. The Forum is queued to take our audiences through breakthrough technology and solutions impacting citizen engagement, the empowerment of government employees, how agencies can optimize their infrastructures and solutions, and the digital transformation of government services. With this in mind, I wanted to provide a few highlights from the Forum where we are speaking of our continued advancements. Continued investment in comprehensive compliance - breadth and depth I’...
Welcome to Azure Marketplace and our ISV partners in Azure Government!
We’re pleased to announce the general availability of the Azure Marketplace for Microsoft Azure Government, as well as welcoming our 3rd party ISV partners. We’ve partnered with some of the top ISVs to provide Azure Government customers with more options for finding the right solutions and quickly spinning up applications that suit their needs. Azure Marketplace is your online store for Virtual Machine images, VM extensions, and more that enable ISVs to offer pre-configured, Azure certified software to customers on the Azure US Government cloud. New ISV partners in the Azure Marketplace for Government Over th...
Get started on Splunk® Enterprise, now supported in Azure Government Cloud!
You can now combine the award-winning Splunk® Enterprise with the power and security of the Azure Government Cloud! Splunk provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Splunk searches, monitors, analyzes and visualizes machine-generated big data from websites, applications, servers, networks, sensors and mobile devices – all in real time. Customers use Splunk to deepen business and customer understanding, mitigate cybersecurity risk, improve service performance and reduce costs. Splunk Enterprise indexes machine data in real time, enabling multiple roles across the organization—from system adminis...