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This week, FedRAMP published a weekly tip that addresses common mistakes made by Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). Q: What are some common mistakes that arise when addressing Control Implementation statements? A: There are several mistakes that CSPs encounter when drafting their Control Implementation statements. Some of those include: Customer Responsibility The customer specific responsibility should...
Now is the time to move to Azure Government and reap the rewards of cloud technology including the ability to scale up or down quickly, pay only for what you use, and save on compute power. Whether you’re moving a few workloads, migrating your datacenter, or deploying new virtual machines (VMs) as part of your...
How Does a FedRAMP P-ATO Reduce The Lead Time For A Cloud Migration? Federal government agencies want to move to the cloud, but they don’t know where to begin. There are many questions around that need to be answered: “Which cloud service provider should I choose?” “How do I meet all of the cybersecurity requirements and...
As we continue looking at Azure Government service updates, it’s a good reminder about how important Azure’s HDInsight is in bringing big data to governmental organizations like yours. It’s the only fully managed cloud Hadoop offering that provides open-sourced clusters for applications like Apache Spark. With the latter above being a popular open-source engine for...
One of the greatest aspects to Microsoft’s Azure Government software is their continual push to innovate and add new features. A lot of this comes through their attention to security for the cloud platform. However, they take it further to help those living in specific geographic regions. If you work in government, your office location...
How much does Microsoft Azure Government services cost? Look no further than the Azure Pricing Calculator to find out. Once you understand the basics of Azure Government pricing (including free services & pricing tiers), and once you identify pricing scenarios with the specs of the workloads you want to provision, you can easily use the...
Nobody can deny that Microsoft continually goes to the limit to continually update and educate those who use their products. In their Azure Government, they’ve recently made this more apparent by uploading training videos in their Channel 9 video library. All of these videos come from the recent Microsoft Tech Summit held in D.C. back...
Those of you who’ve used Microsoft’s Azure Government know how important it is as one of the most reliable cloud platforms out there. Microsoft’s attention to security, privacy, compliance, and transparency continues making it a leader for government institutions to rely on. Despite the reliability, it’s still had room to grow in data services. Although...
Microsoft’s Azure Government continues to make huge strides in critical government institutions. But nowhere is that progress more important than the U.S. Department of Defense plan to switch to Azure for critical workloads. The DoD’s decision is on the heels of Azure’s provisional authorization for DoD’s Impact Level 5 earlier this year. This provision is...
With security always a concern in government, your IT department may worry about how secure your current cloud provider is. Many cloud systems are secure, though you see too many examples where anything can and does happen. With our U.S. government being a strong target for hackers lately, you need something taking security more seriously...