According to Gartner1, governments continue to face pressures to reduce costs and operate more effectively and efficiently, while accommodating a changing demographic landscape and high expectations. This, in turn, is leading to the adoption of more solutions being bought outside of the control of the ever-pressed IT department, and cloud computing and SaaS are fueling this growth. Azure Government delivers a nationwide cloud-based solution designed specifically to support strategic and utility based scenarios for U.S. government organizations including the Department of Defense, federal, state, and local governments.