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Announcement - Azure Government

F5 Now Available in Microsoft Azure’s US Gov Cloud

October 19, 2016 Oct 19, 2016 10/19/16
Sarah Weldon
F5 is pleased to announce the general availability of its BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) application delivery controller (ADC) solutions in the Microsoft Azure US Government Cloud. Customers who want to deploy mission-critical government applications in Microsoft-managed and physically-isolated datacenters within the continental United States ...

The most trusted Government Cloud for mission critical workloads – check the facts

October 18, 2016 Oct 18, 2016 10/18/16
Tom Keane, General Manager, Microsoft
A pivotal day today as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gave a Mastermind Keynote at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando, discussing Microsoft’s differentiated cloud for global good and how not all clouds are created equal.  Simultaneously, from a FedScoop FedTalk in Washington, DC, Jason Zander, CVP of our Microsoft Azure team, further elaborated ...

Bringing Azure SQL Data Warehouse and SQL Server Stretch Database to the Azure Government database family

October 13, 2016 Oct 13, 2016 10/13/16
Megan Yount (MSFT)
Following the arrival of SQL Database v12, we’d like to announce the general availability of Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Azure SQL Stretch Database in Microsoft Azure Government.Azure SQL Data WarehouseAzure SQL Data Warehouse is a cloud-based, fully managed database capable of processing massive amounts of data, both relational and non...

Azure SQL Database v12 has landed in Azure Government

September 27, 2016 Sep 27, 2016 09/27/16
Megan Yount (MSFT)
We are delighted to announce the general availability of Azure SQL Database (v12) in Microsoft Azure Government. This latest version delivers 25% more Premium performance and faster data recovery to help your objectives.Azure SQL Database is a managed cloud database for app developers. The service makes building and maintaining ...

IaaS just got easier for Government

September 27, 2016 Sep 27, 2016 09/27/16
Brenda Y Lee
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Azure VM and SQL DB deployment and management powered by Azure Resource Manager (ARM) on Microsoft Azure Government. These capabilities are some of the most requested features for Azure Government.  This enables the modern management of many more of your cloud resources. The ARM ...

Azure Government adding F-Series VMs to USGov Iowa

September 19, 2016 Sep 19, 2016 09/19/16
Julie Glixon, Program Manager
Today we are announcing the addition of the F-Series VMs to Azure Government’s USGov Iowa datacenter. As noted in the initial release of F-Series VMs in Azure, these VMs have: Any workload which does not need as much memory or local SSD per CPU core will benefit from the value of the F-Series VMs. Due to the price-performance value, ...

Azure Import/Export Service generally available in Azure Government

August 24, 2016 Aug 24, 2016 08/24/16
Brenda Y Lee
We are excited to announce the general availability of the Azure Import/Export Service in Microsoft Azure Government. The Import/Export service allows migration of large amounts of data in and out of Azure blob storage by shipping hard disk drives directly to the datacenter. This service is suitable in situations where you want to transfer ...

Join us! DC Azure Gov Meetup on open source technology in government –  Aug. 31 

August 18, 2016 Aug 18, 2016 08/18/16
Karina Homme
The recent release of the White House's Federal Source Code policy is just the latest example of how the federal government has come to embrace. open source ideology. This policy promotes efficiency and re-use by encouraging agencies to use open source code for custom applications and building communities around it.Please join us to discuss ...

We are seeking rock stars to become Microsoft MVPs for Azure

August 16, 2016 Aug 16, 2016 08/16/16
Karina Homme
Are you, or anyone you know, driving transformation and making significant contributions to the wider technical community around Microsoft Azure?  If so, be sure to submit a nomination by August 31 to be considered for the October announcement of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program’s Azure category.  Nominations submitted ...