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First-hand experience shows how process modeling can help

If you’ve ever worked with process and business modeling software, chances are you’ve felt like a character in a Dilbert cartoon.

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Group developing strategy for easier records management

The Electronic Records Working Group would launch an e-records management toolkit, supports standard metadata elements and definitions.

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Audit supports Social Security progress

Performance indicators audit notes progress in Social Security Administration’s development and protection of management information systems.

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Biometrics: The fingers have it

New products from Topaz Systems and Interlink Electronics combine finger scans with e-signatures.

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Squeezing more capacity out of WANs

Bandwidth optimization products boost network performance

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Optimizing bandwidth

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OMB lays out R&D priorities for IT in 2006

The Bush administration has placed supercomputing and cyberinfrastructure among its highest priorities for agency R&D efforts in fiscal 2006.

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IBM creates entry-level Gateway

Big Blue now has a network-attached storage product for less than $32,000.

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Last-minute deals

Five product areas in which savings can be pocketed

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Deploying SRM

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Keeping track of storage

Storage resource management helps IT staff do better capacity planning

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DOD to call for reviews of buying to ‘Get It Right’

In an effort to allay lawmakers’ concerns about contracting problems, the Defense Department’s top procurement officer plans to issue a memo requiring the military services to review planned purchases from multiple-award schedules.

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IPv6: Built for speed

Early tests indicate protocol can handle future computing demands

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IPv4 to IPv6: Not a simple migration

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Summer IT hot spots

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Closing wireless backdoors

Wireless LAN analyzers detect rogue users and devices

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Xiotech pushes tiered storage

Company officials say organizations can use their nodes to tailor storage types to the appropriate data.

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Records agency automates its FISMA process

The government’s move toward electronic documents is producing unexpected benefits for the nation’s chief record-keeper.

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Networx gets a tentative thumbs-up

Telecom industry officials still have some questions about the program

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The inner workings of SRM

Storage resource management (SRM) products can manage storage-area networks (SANs), network-attached storage and direct-attached storage.