Microsoft’s new compliance guidance for Azure Government users lands as a practical — and strategically timed — set of tools and mappings designed to help public-sector and regulated organizations accelerate secure cloud adoption while meeting stringent jurisdictional controls.
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SAS has moved a major piece of the enterprise analytics market into the US public sector cloud by making SAS Viya available through SAS Managed Cloud Services on Microsoft Azure Government, a move that promises to simplify procurement, tighten data residency controls, and bring enterprise-grade...
SAS Viya is now offered as a managed, U.S.-sovereign analytics platform inside Microsoft Azure Government—giving federal, state and local agencies (and their systems integrators) a turnkey path to deploy advanced analytics, ModelOps, and explainable AI inside physically isolated datacenters with...
SAS’ cloud-native analytics platform Viya is now officially available to U.S. public sector organizations and the partner ecosystem through Microsoft Azure Government, opening a new on-ramp for agencies that need advanced analytics and AI inside a U.S.-sovereign, contractually isolated cloud...
Concentric AI’s Semantic Intelligence platform can now run its heavy-duty data scanning and classification entirely inside a customer-controlled Microsoft Azure tenancy with the launch of Private Scan Manager for Azure, a deployment option pitched at organisations that must keep raw content...
Concentric AI’s Semantic Intelligence platform can now run its heavy-duty data scanning and classification entirely inside a customer‑controlled Microsoft Azure tenancy, bringing a new on‑tenant deployment option — Private Scan Manager for Azure — to organisations that must keep raw content...
Concentric AI’s Semantic Intelligence platform can now run its heavy-duty data scanning and classification entirely inside a customer-controlled Microsoft Azure tenancy — a Private Scan Manager for Azure that promises on‑tenant raw-data scanning while maintaining a central control plane for...
Concentric AI’s announcement that Semantic Intelligence can now run its Private Scan Manager inside a customer-controlled Microsoft Azure tenancy marks a meaningful expansion of options for regulated organizations that must keep raw data in‑scope while still wanting AI-driven data security...
Concentric AI’s announcement that its Semantic Intelligence platform can now run raw-data scans inside a customer‑controlled Microsoft Azure environment marks a pragmatic, if unsurprising, next step in the market’s response to the tension between SaaS convenience and strict regulatory...
CloudFit Software’s announcement that it won the 2025 Microsoft Global Defense & Intelligence Partner of the Year Award crystallizes a fast-moving commercial moment: Microsoft has formally recognized CloudFit’s Azure Government and GCC High‑centric approach to defense workloads just as the...
CloudFit Software’s announcement that it has been named Microsoft’s 2025 Global Defense & Intelligence Partner of the Year marks a notable credential for a firm that has built its business around secure, Azure‑native managed services for the U.S. Defense Industrial Base (DIB) — and it arrives at...
Kuwait’s government has moved from promise to program: officials and Microsoft announced a strategic partnership to build an AI‑powered Azure Region inside Kuwait, roll Microsoft 365 Copilot out across government, and seed a local AI innovation ecosystem — a suite of commitments the government...
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The U.S. House of Representatives has moved from prohibition to experimentation with generative AI: leadership announced a managed, year‑long pilot that will place Microsoft’s Copilot assistant inside House systems and issue up to 6,000 one‑year licenses to staff—an institutional test with...
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The U.S. House of Representatives has quietly moved from prohibition to pilot: House leadership announced a managed, one‑year rollout that will give thousands of House staffers access to Microsoft Copilot as part of a controlled experiment to modernize office workflows and test AI in a...
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Curated for You and Microsoft have quietly activated a first-of-its-kind, lifestyle‑led AI fashion experience inside Microsoft Copilot, delivering visually composed, shoppable outfit recommendations in response to natural‑language styling prompts and linking those looks directly to participating...
Speaker Mike Johnson’s announcement at the Congressional Hackathon that the U.S. House will begin a staged pilot giving thousands of House staffers access to Microsoft Copilot marks a dramatic reversal of last year’s ban and opens a high‑stakes test of how a legislative body adopts generative AI...
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Starting this fall, the U.S. House of Representatives will pilot Microsoft Copilot for thousands of members and staff — a rapid policy reversal from the chamber’s 2024 ban that converts institutional caution into a high‑stakes experiment in government AI adoption. Background: from prohibition to...
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Starting this fall, the U.S. House of Representatives will begin a managed, year‑long pilot giving thousands of House staffers access to Microsoft Copilot, a dramatic policy reversal from the chamber’s 2024 ban and a consequential test case for how democracies adopt generative AI while trying to...
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The U.S. House of Representatives is moving from outright restriction to a controlled, institution-wide pilot of Microsoft Copilot — a shift announced to reporters and unveiled during the Congressional Hackathon — that will give members and staff staged access to Copilot under what the House...
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The U.S. House of Representatives is shifting from prohibition to pilot: members and staff will be offered access to Microsoft Copilot under a managed, government‑scoped rollout announced at the Congressional Hackathon, a move framed by leadership as part of a broader push to modernize...
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