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October 9th Cybersecurity Update – Microsoft Gov Cloud

Microsoft wants to up its presence in the hotly contested federal cloud computing market. It launches a dedicated, government-only cloud. That means the facilit...

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October 9, 2013 1:06 pm

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Microsoft wants to up its presence in the hotly contested federal cloud computing market. It launches a dedicated, government-only cloud. That means the facilities are located in the continental United States, and staffed by U-S citizens. Only data and applications of federal, state and local agencies will be housed there. In a blog post, Microsoft’s cloud chief Satya Nardella says the Windows Azure US Government Cloud has already received federal security approval. It was granted provisional authority to operate under the General Services Administration’s FedRAMP program. Nardella says federal customers are among the most demanding.