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Virtual Machines - Azure Government

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

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

April 25, 2018 Apr 25, 2018 04/25/18
Mike Ketchum
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/ (image) ...

Announcing new GPUs in Azure Government with NV-Series

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

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

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

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

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

VDI with Frame on Azure Government

December 14, 2017 Dec 14, 2017 12/14/17
Steve Michelotti
In this episode of the Azure Government video series, Steve Downs sits down with Dave Reber from Frame to discuss the Frame platform for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Frame is a Microsoft VDI partner focused providing a great user experience for remote applications hosted in Azure Government. Dave shares a bit about Frame’s history ...

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

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