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Announcing the launch of Azure M-series VMs with up to 4TB RAM in USGov Arizona region

Azure Gov Team July 26, 2018 Jul 26, 2018 07/26/18

We are excited to announce the launch of Azure M-series Virtual Machines in the USGov Virginia region. Azure M-series VMs offer memory from 192 GB up to 4 TB on a single VM with configurations from 8 to 128 hyper-threaded vCPUs, powered by Intel® Xeon® 2.5 GHz E7-8890 v3 processors. The Azure M-series is perfectly suited for your in-memory...

Application Security Groups now generally available in Azure Government

Mike Ketchum April 25, 2018 Apr 25, 2018 04/25/18

We are pleased to announce general availability of Application Security Groups (ASG) in all Azure regions including Azure Government. This feature provides security micro-segmentation for your virtual networks in Azure. The detailed announcement can be viewed here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/applicationsecuritygroups/ ASGs ...

Announcing new GPUs in Azure Government with NV-Series

Kyle Deeds, Program Manager April 19, 2018 Apr 19, 2018 04/19/18

We’re excited to announce that NV-Series virtual machines are now generally available in US Gov Virginia. NV-Series is designed to support visualization scenarios which enables customers to use NVIDIA® Tesla® M60 GPUs and NVIDIA® GRID in Azure for desktop accelerated applications and virtual desktops. With these powerful visualization ...

Announcing the launch of Azure M-series VMs with up to 4TB RAM in USGov Virginia region

Kyle Deeds, Program Manager April 18, 2018 Apr 18, 2018 04/18/18

We are excited to announce the launch of Azure M-series Virtual Machines in the USGov Virginia region. Azure M-series VMs offer memory up to 4 TB on a single VM with configurations of 64 or 128 hyper-threaded vCPUs, powered by Intel® Xeon® 2.5 GHz E7-8890 v3 processors. We’re also excited to announce that Azure is the first hyperscale ...

Announcing Azure DevTest Labs in Azure Government

Gerardo Saca April 10, 2018 Apr 10, 2018 04/10/18

Today, we're excited to announce the availability of Azure DevTest Labs in Azure Government. Azure DevTest Labs is a self-service sandbox environment in Azure that enables you to quickly create dev/test environments while minimizing waste and controlling costs. Developers and testers need to spend considerable time configuring their self-...

Accelerated Networking for both Windows and Linux is now generally available in Azure Government

Mike Ketchum March 15, 2018 Mar 15, 2018 03/15/18

We are happy to announce that Accelerated Networking (AN) for both Windows and Linux is now generally available in Azure Government. Accelerated networking provides consistent ultra-low network latency via Azure's in-house programmable hardware and technologies such as SR-IOV. By moving much of Azure's software-defined networking stack off ...

Announcing preview of new high performance computing capability: H-Series VMs

Steve Michelotti January 10, 2018 Jan 10, 2018 01/10/18

Late last year, we announced that H-Series virtual machines were coming to Azure Government to support high performance computing (HPC) workloads. I'm excited to announce that H-Series VMs are now in preview in US Gov Arizona . Customers can leverage this new capability for any unclassified workload including ITAR and FedRAMP High. These ...

Join us at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference in Washington, DC

Kyle Deeds, Program Manager October 24, 2017 Oct 24, 2017 10/24/17

Are you attending NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference, Nov. 1-2, at the Ronald Reagan International and Trade Building in Washington, DC? If so, we invite you to our session, AI, HPC Infrastructure & Visualizations on Microsoft Azure Government at on Nov. 1, 1:30 - 2:20 p.m. in Hemisphere B to learn about advancements of GPU capabilities ...

Data Science Virtual Machines are now available on Azure Government Cloud

Gerardo Saca October 11, 2017 Oct 11, 2017 10/11/17

This post was co-authored by: Gopi Kumar, Principal Program Manager, AI and Research For any questions, feel free to contact Gopi on Twitter: @zenlytix We are happy to announce the availability of the Data Science Virtual Machine on Microsoft Azure Government Cloud. Microsoft's Data Science Virtual Machine (DSVM) is a family of popular VM...

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