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Meetup replay: Cloud DemoPalooza – Gov Style

October 22, 2018 Oct 22, 2018 10/22/18
Karina Homme
Last month, we challenged the Azure Government user community to share 15-minute demos to showcase cool tech to help accelerate your cloud implementations. During our September meetup, Cloud DemoPalooza – Gov Style, we heard from Snowflake, General Dynamics IT, CGI Federal and Microsoft on everything from data warehouse-as-a-service to tech ...

Bringing more cybersecurity capabilities to Azure Government

October 18, 2018 Oct 18, 2018 10/18/18
Azure Gov Team
Protecting information systems and critical infrastructure from cyberattack and reducing the nation’s overall cybersecurity risk are key mandates that cross every level of local, state and federal government. In support of this effort, we’re pleased to announce a new partnership with Cybraics, a security analytics and artificial ...

Serverless computing on Azure Government with Functions

October 17, 2018 Oct 17, 2018 10/17/18
Yujin Hong
Azure Functions is a solution for easily running small pieces of code, or "functions," in the cloud. You can write just the code you need for the problem at hand, without worrying about a whole application or the infrastructure to run it. You can easily connect to data sources such as Azure Storage or Cosmos DB and integrate triggers and ...

From active duty to a career supporting the mission-critical cloud

October 15, 2018 Oct 15, 2018 10/15/18
Azure Gov Team
For Jacob Wrigley, working with technology has always been a passion. It started with designing and building with Legos as a kid. Later, that passion took the form of writing code and building his own computer programs. But tech was never a full-time job. Instead, Wrigley served for six-and-a-half years in the Army infantry where he rose ...

Utilizing PaaS services and ARM deployment templates on Azure Government

October 12, 2018 Oct 12, 2018 10/12/18
Yujin Hong
There are many Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings available in Azure Government that you can easily leverage to build compelling applications. It is extremely easy to get up and running with PaaS services, and PaaS services offer a quicker path to compliance. Other than some different endpoints, developing with PaaS services in Azure ...

New capabilities to enable your mission end to end

October 11, 2018 Oct 11, 2018 10/11/18
Azure Gov Team
As we continue to focus on helping government customers secure their mission end to end, we’d like to share a set of new Azure capabilities to help US government customers deliver breakthrough outcomes. For in-depth coverage of these announcements and more, read Julia White’s blog ‘Enabling intelligent cloud and intelligent edge ...

ServiceNow Digital Workflows coming to Azure Government customers

October 11, 2018 Oct 11, 2018 10/11/18
Azure Gov Team
Microsoft and ServiceNow announced an alliance today to help deliver ServiceNow digital workflows to Azure Government customers; paving the way to secure modernization and helping to accelerate digital transformation. We announced this alliance at our Government Leaders Cloud Forum in Washington, DC. ServiceNow is changing the way government ...

Join us: Women Leading Government Cybersecurity – Oct. 24 in Washington, DC

October 9, 2018 Oct 9, 2018 10/9/18
Karina Homme
In support of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security, we invite you to RSVP and join us for a special edition Microsoft Azure Government Meetup, Women Leading Government Cybersecurity, Wednesday, Oct. 24 from 6 – 8:30 p.m., at 1776 in Washington, DC. All are welcome to this free event, ...

U.S. Air Force awards $30M+ Enterprise IT-as-a-Service contract to Microsoft

October 4, 2018 Oct 4, 2018 10/4/18
Azure Gov Team
Microsoft, Redmond, Washington, Oct. 4, 2018 The U.S. Air Force has awarded a transformational $30+M agreement to Microsoft to provide secure network access to DoD data and applications as well as enable access for mobile and remotely located users. Microsoft has a longstanding 30-year partnership with the DoD and this other transaction ...

Secure Development on Azure Government – Part 2

October 3, 2018 Oct 3, 2018 10/3/18
Steve Michelotti
In this episode of the Azure Government video series, Steve Michelotti talks with Paul Fisher (Modern App Solution Center, Microsoft) and Joseph Bloom (Business Productivity, Microsoft) about how to set up a secure development environment on Azure Government. In this Part 2 (of the 2-part series), Paul and Joseph focus on setting up a ...