Azure Government

Updates for building solutions across Microsoft's Clouds for Government

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 ...

Trusted Internet Connection guidance for Azure IaaS and PaaS solutions

July 30, 2018 Jul 30, 2018 07/30/18
Azure Gov Team
This post was contributed by Susie Adams, Chief Technology Officer Microsoft Federal, and Diego Lapiduz, Chief Information Security Architect - Azure Government at Microsoft. Many government customers that are working to optimize security in the cloud have asked for guidance on how to align with the policies set by the Trusted Internet ...

Announcing the launch of Azure M-series VMs with up to 4TB RAM in USGov Arizona region

July 26, 2018 Jul 26, 2018 07/26/18
Azure Gov Team
We are excited to announce the launch of Azure M-series Virtual Machines in the USGov Virginia region. Azure M-series VMs offer memory from 192 GB up to 4 TB on a single VM with configurations from 8 to 128 hyper-threaded vCPUs, powered by Intel® Xeon® 2.5 GHz E7-8890 v3 processors. The Azure M-series is perfectly suited for your in-memory...

Machine Learning on Azure Government with HDInsight

July 25, 2018 Jul 25, 2018 07/25/18
Steve Michelotti
In this episode of the Azure Government video series, Steve Michelotti sits down to talk with Yujin Hong, Program Manager on the Azure Government Engineering team, about Machine Learning on Azure Government with HDInsight. There are endless applications of Artificial intelligence in the Government space, from predictive analytics to object ...