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  • FedRAMP Board OKs 5 Microsoft Offerings to Join Azure Govt Cloud's Provisional Authorization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FedRAMP Board OKs 5 Microsoft Offerings to Join Azure Govt Cloud’s Provisional Authorization

    Microsoft has added five offerings to Azure Government Cloud‘s provisional authorization-to-operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board approved the company’s move to add Service Bus, Notification Hubs, Site Recovery, StorSimple and Backup to Azure Government’s P-ATO at the “High Impact Level,” Microsoft said Tuesday. There are now 18 Azure Government offerings that […] More

  • Microsoft Adds Booz Allen's Cloud Security Suite to Azure Govt Marketplace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Adds Booz Allen’s Cloud Security Suite to Azure Govt Marketplace

    Microsoft will offer a suite of Booz Allen Hamilton products on the Azure Government Cloud as the companies seek to help agencies protect cloud-based workloads and comply with the Defense Department‘s security requirements. Derek Strausbaugh, a principal program manager at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post published Friday that Booz Allen’s Virtual Cloud Defense portfolio is designed to support the development […] More

  • Curt Kolcun: Microsoft Seeks to Facilitate Govt Cloud Adoption Through New Services, Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Curt Kolcun: Microsoft Seeks to Facilitate Govt Cloud Adoption Through New Services, Programs

    Microsoft has introduced new programs and services that seek to help government agencies adopt cloud platforms. Curt Kolcun, vice president of the U.S. public sector at Microsoft, wrote in an article published Tuesday that the company has made the Azure Government Marketplace and the Operations Management Suite portal available to Azure Government cloud users. The OMS portal works […] More

  • Microsoft to Add Riverbed App Performance Mgmt Tools on Azure Govt Cloud; Davis Johnson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft to Add Riverbed App Performance Mgmt Tools on Azure Govt Cloud; Davis Johnson Comments

    Microsoft and Riverbed Technology have partnered to offer government customers access to application performance management tools designed to support information technology modernization and digital transformation efforts. Riverbed said Tuesday its SteelHead CX can now be purchased via Microsoft’s Azure Government Cloud marketplace while Riverbed’s SteelCentral AppInternals platform will be available to agencies in the first quarter of 2017. “Federal agencies are seeking technology solutions that help […] More

  • Esri Inaugurates Mapping & Spatial Analytics Platform on Microsoft Azure Govt Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri Inaugurates Mapping & Spatial Analytics Platform on Microsoft Azure Govt Cloud

    Esri has made available its enterprise mapping and spatial analytics platform on Microsoft‘s Azure Government Cloud to support the deployment of geographic information systems technology on Microsoft Azure virtual machines. A blog post published Friday on Microsoft’s website says ArcGIS for Server offers a web GIS environment for mapping and spatial analytics functions that feature maps and apps designed to be used and shared […] More

  • F5 Offers App Delivery Controller Platforms Through Microsoft Azure Govt Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    F5 Offers App Delivery Controller Platforms Through Microsoft Azure Govt Cloud

    F5 Networks has begun to offer its application delivery controller products through Microsoft‘s Azure U.S. government cloud platform. Sarah Weldon, a Microsoft program manager, wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that F5’s BIG-IP Virtual Edition ADC offerings are designed to help users manage application speed, availability and security. She added that government customers can also use F5’s offerings in public cloud environments and to establish site-to-site […] More

  • Microsoft Expands ExpressRoute Service to Azure Gov't Cloud Users - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Expands ExpressRoute Service to Azure Gov’t Cloud Users

    Microsoft has made its Azure ExpressRoute cloud integration service available to users of the software company’s Azure Government cloud platform. Yousef Khalidi, Azure networking engineer at Microsoft, wrote in a Microsoft blog post published Tuesday that Microsoft’s Azure ExpressRoute service is designed to establish private connectivity between on-premises data centers and Azure cloud computing platform without the […] More