Insights, how-tos and updates for building solutions on Microsoft's cloud for US government
June 7, 2018Jun 7, 201806/7/18Got Back Up? Anyone who has a basement or even a closet in their home, knows the sometimes painful necessity of clearing out space and managing storage. Government agencies embarking on digital transformation can also feel the pain of runaway costs due to storage accumulation for backups.
February 21, 2018Feb 21, 201802/21/18The Azure Government team continually strives to bring the latest Azure platform features to Azure Government. In this post I highlight networking features that have recently been made generally available in Azure Government.
Network Watcher
Network Watcher is a regional service that enables you to monitor and diagnose conditions at a network scenario level in,
November 8, 2017Nov 8, 201711/8/17In Gartner’s Top Seven Priorities for U.S. Federal CIOs, they maintain that revitalizing the IT workforce should be looked at as an opportunity for CIOs to improve the quality of employees their organization has.[1] One way of doing this is by modernizing the workforce with new and innovative technology.
September 21, 2017Sep 21, 201709/21/17Azure Site Recovery (ASR) provides capabilities to automate protection and replication of virtual machines, providing a true Disaster Recovery as a Service Solution (DRaaS). ASR allows for data replication to multiple geographically dispersed regions, which provides a significant opportunity for cost savings while enhancing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) and COOP capabilities.
September 20, 2017Sep 20, 201709/20/17We’re pleased to announce General Availability of Managed Disks in the Microsoft Azure Government Cloud. Managed Disks are available in USGov Virginia, USGov Texas, USGov Arizona, USDoD Central and USDoD East Azure US Government regions.
Azure Managed Disks simplifies disk management for Azure IaaS VMs by managing the storage accounts associated with the VM disks.
September 5, 2017Sep 5, 201709/5/17We are happy to announce the generally availability of Blob Storage accounts in US Gov Virginia. The feature is now enabled in three regions including the recently announced US Gov Arizona and US Gov Texas.
Blob storage accounts are specialized storage accounts for storing your unstructured data as blobs (objects) in Azure Storage.
August 21, 2017Aug 21, 201708/21/17Today, as part of our ongoing support of the Cybersecurity Executive Order, I am pleased to announce the final 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 Recover function requirements using the services offered by Azure.
August 1, 2017Aug 1, 201708/1/17We 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,
August 1, 2017Aug 1, 201708/1/17Today 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,
July 21, 2017Jul 21, 201707/21/17*Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Storage Service Encryption for Azure Files Storage, as well as the “Secure transfer required” feature now being supported in the Azure Government Storage account.
Storage Service Encryption for Azure File Storage
Azure File Storage is a fully managed service providing distributed and cross platform storage.
