Azure Government

Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government

August 2018 - Azure Government

How to configure TLS versions in App Service and Functions apps in Azure Government

August 27, 2018 Aug 27, 2018 08/27/18
Sachin Dubey
TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocols provide privacy and data integrity for establishing secured connections between applications. Over the period of time TLS has evolved and new versions have continued to fix vulnerabilities in older versions and also add newer capabilities. As Azure Government customers continue to optimize security of ...

RSVP and join us for our Aug. 29 Meetup: Future of Gov Security – Automated ATOs, Revamped TIC & Beyond

August 24, 2018 Aug 24, 2018 08/24/18
Karina Homme
The President’s Management Agenda (PMA) is calling on agencies to accelerate their IT modernization efforts with a continued focus on security. At this month’s meetup, we will discuss how agencies can navigate ATOs and TIC compliance, so they can realize the benefits of the cloud and achieve greater agility while strengthening their ...

OpenShift on Azure Government

August 19, 2018 Aug 19, 2018 08/19/18
Steve Michelotti
In this episode of the Azure Government video series, Steve Michelotti sits down with Jamie Duncan, a Cloud Solutions Architect from Red Hat, to talk about OpenShift on Azure Government. OpenShift is an Enterprise grade application platform for containers with Kubernetes. The discussion begins with Jamie outlining some of the benefits that ...

Announcing Azure Stack for Azure Government customers to enable IT modernization and tactical edge scenarios

August 13, 2018 Aug 13, 2018 08/13/18
Azure Gov Team
This post was contributed by Natalia Mackevicius, Program Director, Azure Stack at Microsoft. Today, we’re announcing that Microsoft Azure Stack is now available to order for Azure Government customers. It was just a few months ago we shared our plans to integrate Azure Stack with our government-only cloud offering so agencies can benefit ...

Bots in Azure Government

August 6, 2018 Aug 6, 2018 08/6/18
Azure Gov Team
This blog was contributed by guest author Russ Williams, Cloud Solution Architect   So you've heard the buzz about bots and "conversational AI" at Microsoft's Build 2018 Conference. You're starting to get excited about ideas you have for bots in your organization.  But then you learn that Azure Government doesn't support the Azure Bot ...

Nasuni supports Azure Government for more scalable file storage and improved cross-office collaboration

August 1, 2018 Aug 1, 2018 08/1/18
Azure Gov Team
This blog is a guest post by Tom Rose, vice president, Product Marketing, Nasuni - Microsoft Azure Global ISV of the Year. Nasuni's cloud file services platform is backed by Azure object storage and helps government agencies store, archive, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on fast-growing unstructured data at scale. (image) This ...