{"id":171,"date":"2015-06-02T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/2015\/06\/02\/storsimple-mfa-suseand-cloudberry-updates-on-azure-government\/"},"modified":"2015-06-02T07:12:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T07:12:00","slug":"storsimple-mfa-suseand-cloudberry-updates-on-azure-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/storsimple-mfa-suseand-cloudberry-updates-on-azure-government\/","title":{"rendered":"StorSimple,  MFA, SUSE,and Cloudberry updates on Azure Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;We are excited to announce some of the latest releases to Azure Government.&nbsp; These releases are in addition to the services we announced in <a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/11\/media-services-regional-virtual-networks-oracle-images-traffic-manager-service-bus-and-azure-files-is-now-available-in-azure-government\/\">March<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>StorSimple <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>StorSimple provides cloud integrated storage solution for customers which includes a hardware appliance on premises that manages storage by keeping active or &#8220;Hot&#8221; data close to the users on the appliance with fast SSD disks.&nbsp; As data builds up and becomes stale, it is tiered back to slower disks and eventually moved to the cloud.&nbsp; StorSimple provides a robust storage platform that couples performance, resilience and disaster recovery in an easy to deploy low risk cloud solution.&nbsp; Now that StorSimple integrates with Azure Government,&nbsp;public sector customers can leverage&nbsp;StorSimple for file shares, SharePoint&nbsp;content management, and disaster recovery.&nbsp; Read more about Update 1 to the StorSimple 8000 series device <a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/27\/announcing-storsimple-update-1-0-availability-in-azure-government-support-for-other-clouds-zrs-and-migration-from-50007000-series\/\">here<\/a>&nbsp;that includes support for Azure Government and FIPS 140-2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Multi-Factor Authentication<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are pleased to announce that Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is now generally available in Azure Government. MFA allows configuration of User Accounts in your Azure Government Azure Active Directory (AAD) for two-factor authentication (2FA). This means your users will be required to verify for strong authentication through a phone call, text message and\/or mobile app notifications.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about MFA please see the <a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/documentation\/services\/multi-factor-authentication\/\">MFA reference documentation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<strong>SUSE Images<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;re pleased to announce that, in partnership with SUSE, we&rsquo;ve published SUSE Images in the Azure Government Image Gallery.<\/p>\n<p>Available Images include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3<\/li>\n<li>SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 (Premium)<\/li>\n<li>SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12<\/li>\n<li>SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (Premium)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;For a full list of available images please see the <a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/documentation\/articles\/azure-government-image-gallery\/\">Azure Government Image Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cloudberry Explorer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cloudberry recently announced integration of their Cloudberry Explorer that will allow you to connect to your Azure Government storage account,manage blobs, and copy across accounts.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudberrylab.com\/blog\/cloudberry-explorer-extends-support-for-microsoft-azure\/\">Read more about Cloudberry Explorer and their 2.2 release on their blog.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;We are excited to announce some of the latest releases to Azure Government.&nbsp; These releases are in addition to the services we announced in March. &nbsp; StorSimple StorSimple provides cloud integrated storage solution for customers which includes a hardware appliance on premises that manages storage by keeping active or &#8220;Hot&#8221; data close to the users [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1755,"featured_media":20423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[75,95,316,353,378,535,542,580,588],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azuregov","tag-azure","tag-azure-government","tag-government-cloud","tag-integration","tag-linux","tag-storsimple","tag-suse","tag-virtual-machines","tag-vms"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>&nbsp;We are excited to announce some of the latest releases to Azure Government.&nbsp; These releases are in addition to the services we announced in March. &nbsp; StorSimple StorSimple provides cloud integrated storage solution for customers which includes a hardware appliance on premises that manages storage by keeping active or &#8220;Hot&#8221; data close to the users [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}