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Forest Service to use AT&T backbone
The company also announced a $7.5 million contract to upgrade the National Gallery of Art's Collections Management System.
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Vendors building high-performance knowledge system
Server could help intell agencies find relationships, connect the dots
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Will they do Windows?
Some high-performance computing centers use clusters that run Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system.
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Emergency preparedness deadlines loom
Officials push for progress on managing national incidents
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Managing user identities
Compliance, security issues drive identity management makeover
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Plugging security holes
Automated patch management: If not a panacea, it's the next best thing for fixing vulnerabilities
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Cluster headaches
Emerging file systems aim to relieve pain of Linux storage bottlenecks.
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AFS keeps going
Andrew File System (AFS) was among the early distributed file systems, but it continues to play a role amid newer developments.
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Interior's Internet disconnect
Side debate centers on judge's order to block agency's Internet access
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Beyond patch management
A few companies are beginning to add capabilities beyond patch management to their software.
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CRM crosses over
One of the few emerging software categories to survive the dot-com crash of the early 2000s was customer relationship management software.
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Grants team proposes pods of systems, not one
A task force charged with finding the best way to manage grants spending has recommended the Office of Management and Budget build on a consortium model instead of a centralized platform.
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Border Patrol expands fingerprint searches
Two fingerprint databases can be searched at the same time to see if illegal aliens are wanted by authorities.
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App lets Air Force, Navy gain control of workflow
The first year the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii began using Concerto software to accelerate the flow of projects, officials cut overtime by $9 million.
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From complex to the commonplace, EPA calls its own numbers
The Environmental Protection Agency’s finance and budget workers used to spend late nights and weekends trying to decipher the agency’s budget figures.
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Carlin goes the distance for NARA
The responsibilities of the National Archives and Records Administration are daunting by any standard. In charge of managing the essential documents that define America, the independent federal agency also responds to more than 13 million government and 2 million public requests for information annually.<@SM>
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Thompson takes Symantec well beyond its antivirus roots
Symantec Corp. built its name on its flagship Norton system maintenance and antivirus products.
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Air Force expands parts tracking app to other must-have data
Air Force Knowledge Services can analyze aircraft uptime so efficiently that the Air Force is expanding it to other kinds of intelligence.
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Nelson applies an enterprise view to EPA’s systems strategy
A single, apt metaphor could help explain the success of Kim Nelson, CIO of the Environmental Protection Agency and recipient of GCN’s Civilian Executive of the Year award.
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