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Virtual Machines - Azure Government

Azure NC Virtual Machines Availability – GPU Compute

August 16, 2017 Aug 16, 2017 08/16/17
Kyle Deeds, Program Manager
Azure NC-based instances are powered by NVIDIA Tesla® K80 GPUs and provide the compute power required to accelerate the most demanding high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads. Customers can now use these instances to run deep learning training jobs, HPC simulations, rendering, real-time data analytics, DNA sequencing, and many more ...

Announcing DSv2-Series and Fs-Series VMs in US Gov Virginia

March 16, 2017 Mar 16, 2017 03/16/17
Kyle Deeds, Program Manager
We are happy to announce the general availability of DSv2-Series and Fs-Series (not to be confused with F-series) virtual machines in US Gov Virginia. DSv2-series and Fs-series VMs can use Premium Storage, which provides high-performance, low-latency storage for Input/Output intensive workloads. These VMs use solid-state drives (SSDs) to ...

Riverbed expands to deliver solutions in Azure Government

October 25, 2016 Oct 25, 2016 10/25/16
Brenda Y Lee
Riverbed Technology is bringing Riverbed SteelHead CX to the Microsoft Azure Government Cloud. Government customers are now able to understand, optimize, and control applications and data across the hybrid enterprise, extending into the cloud. With SteelHead CX in Azure you get: If you have any questions pertaining to Riverbed ...

ArcGIS for Server on Microsoft Azure Government

October 21, 2016 Oct 21, 2016 10/21/16
Brenda Y Lee
Esri is excited to announce the availability of ArcGIS for Server on the Microsoft Azure Government Cloud. ArcGIS for Server will allow you to deploy leading-edge GIS technology on Microsoft Azure virtual machines. As the world’s leading enterprise mapping and spatial analytics platform, ArcGIS for Server provides a complete Web GIS ...

The Capabilities of Red Hat VM Images in a Pay-as-you-go Model for Azure Government

October 19, 2016 Oct 19, 2016 10/19/16
Brenda Y Lee
We are happy to announce that government customers can now deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 and 7.2 VM images in a Pay-As-You-Go model directly from the Azure Government Marketplace with per-minute billing.  This is following our partnership announcement with Red Hat in Azure Government on July 27th, 2016.  What does this mean for ...

TFS VM Images now available in Azure Government

July 18, 2016 Jul 18, 2016 07/18/16
Brenda Y Lee
We are pleased to announce that Microsoft Team Foundation Server VM Images are now available in Azure Government. Team Foundation Server Team Foundation Server provides a set of collaboration tools that work with your existing IDE or editor, so your team can work effectively on software projects of all shapes and sizes. Available Images ...

New VM images available in Azure Government

June 30, 2016 Jun 30, 2016 06/30/16
Brenda Y Lee
We are happy to share with you the most recently published VM images now available for Microsoft Azure Government customers. You can see the full list of currently available images in our Image Gallery Documentation. In the upcoming month you will see additional VM images published in Azure Government. As always...

Microsoft Azure Government adds Premium Storage and expanded Virtual Machine image coverage

June 21, 2016 Jun 21, 2016 06/21/16
Brenda Y Lee
<Cross posted from the Azure Blog.> Today, I am pleased to announce additional functionality for Microsoft Azure Government. In support of key customer requests, and service portfolio expansion, we have added support for Premium Storage and several additional pre-configured Virtual Machine images.  Azure Government customers can begin...

New service-level disaster recovery guidance

June 9, 2016 Jun 9, 2016 06/9/16
Brenda Y Lee
We are happy to announce the availability of the Microsoft Azure service resiliency guidance page. We created this page because our customers have asked us for clear guidance on what to do when they experienced a service disruption. Since a service disruption can be localized (perhaps an issue on a specific host or even code within a virtual ...

Announcing Dv2-Series Virtual Machines in US Gov – Iowa

May 25, 2016 May 25, 2016 05/25/16
Adam Richard
In the last few weeks, we have made Dv2-Series VMs available in the US Gov – Iowa region for Azure Government. This means that both Azure Government regions now have access to D-Series VMs.  US Gov – Virginia has the original D-Series VMs. Dv2-Series VMs (a follow-on to the original D-Series VMs) feature similar memory and hard disk ...