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Register now: Cyber Agility with the Cloud webinar

January 30, 2018 Jan 30, 2018 01/30/18
Karina Homme
Cloud enables an ever-accelerating pace of innovation and change. At the same time, cloud architecture challenges fundamental assumptions of on-premises cybersecurity practices; existing security and compliance frameworks simply can't keep up. The next evolution of cybersecurity is a transition away from "best practice" models of security to a...

Federal agencies continue to advance capabilities with Azure Government

January 24, 2018 Jan 24, 2018 01/24/18
Tom Keane, General Manager, Microsoft
We’re continuing to see agencies advance their capabilities using Azure Government. Two agencies have recently issued new Authority to Operate (ATO) designations for Azure Government: the U.S. Air Force with a DoD Impact Level 4 ATO for its Common Computing Environment (CCE) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with a FedRAMP ...

New course: How to leverage the power of cloud for government

January 23, 2018 Jan 23, 2018 01/23/18
Karina Homme
Government needs the agility to respond to almost any situation. While cloud can enable this agility, many cloud models aren’t designed with government in mind, and don’t adhere to strict government security and regulation standards.   To provide insight into how government cloud solutions help agencies realize the benefits of cloud ...

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 ...

Join us Jan. 31! Jumpstart Your Move to the Cloud – Gov Edition

January 10, 2018 Jan 10, 2018 01/10/18
Karina Homme
As we enter the New Year, many government agencies continue to resolve to take advantage of cloud computing. However, oftentimes, agencies find that they are stuck, unprepared and seeking ways to help them transition to the cloud. With these challenges in mind we are kicking off 2018 with a can't-miss Meetup, Jumpstart Your Move to the Cloud...

Trends in Government Software Developers

January 8, 2018 Jan 8, 2018 01/8/18
Steve Michelotti
A few months ago, StackOverflow published their findings on Trends in Government Software Developers. StackOverflow is the #1 source for software developers to find answers on the Internet and has been the leader in this space for years. Because StackOverflow is one of the most highly trafficked sites on the Internet, they have at their ...

Optimize Uptime While Staying Secure

January 5, 2018 Jan 5, 2018 01/5/18
Steve Michelotti
With the recent announcement of the industry-wide, hardware-based CPU vulnerability, organizations must ensure they have appropriately updated their infrastructure to secure their environment. Microsoft Azure Government customer environments were patched prior to the public announcement. Additionally, Microsoft publicly announced the patching ...

VDI with Citrix on Azure Government

January 5, 2018 Jan 5, 2018 01/5/18
Steve Michelotti
In this episode of the Microsoft Azure Government video series, Steve Downs, senior program manager, Microsoft Azure Government, sits down with Jose Padin, sales engineering director, US Public Sector, Citrix to discuss Citrix's Secure Digital Workspace capabilities available in Azure Government. During this video, VDI with Citrix on Azure ...