Microsoft Lets Agencies Test Government-Only Cloud
March 5, 2014
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: William Jackson.
Microsoft has begun giving a select group of federal customers the chance to put Microsoft’s new government-only cloud service through a series of private tests. "The processes, people, technology, and infrastructure are all in place. We want real-world test loads," for a shakedown cruise, said Greg Myers, VP of federal sales, in announcing the news Tuesday at Microsoft’s US Public Sector Federal Executive Forum in Washington.
Although Microsoft’s commercial Azure cloud offering has received authority to operate under the FedRAMP program for cloud services, the new government platform — announced last fall and called Azure for Government — has not yet been certified. The government-only offering is housed in two specially constructed datacenters located in the United States and isolated physically and logically from the public cloud…
All personnel will be US citizens screened for moderate public trust clearance and the servers will house only data from federal, state, and local government customers. The new platform, although operational, is not finished and will keep evolving to provide enhanced security, said Myers…
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