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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.

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Agencies get out of the box

Mark Carney calls the core financial system the Education Department tried to install in 1999 a “stinker.” The agency’s chief financial officer quickly grew tired of the configuration issues as well as arduous and complex testing processes. Education’s decision to move to Oracle—one of six commercial software systems approved for federal use by the Joint Financial Management Improvement Program—represents a trend: Agencies are changing their business practices to meet the software’s capabilities instead of customizing software to conform to their own procedures.<@SM><@SM>

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Spectra Logic targets fed market

The developer of data storage products has a new division devoted to the federal government.

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Net-centric approach creates a software challenge

As the Defense Department gears its networks for greater use, its software needs also are changing.

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Las Vegas tests high-speed wireless

The network developed by MeshNetworks and Cheetah Wireless Technologies will handle a variety of traffic management applications.

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Harris wins $1B services pact

The company will lead an industry team operating the National Reconnaissance Office's communications and information systems.

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Managers face familiar hurdles: security and funding

What do government IT managers worry about the most? “Our biggest challenge is security,” said an IT manager at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland, reflecting the opinion of nearly half the respondents in a GCN telephone survey.<@SM>

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OMB appoints Young e-gov associate administrator

Tim Young is the new associate administrator for e-government and IT.

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D.C. preps wireless demo

The primary goal of the demonstration is to show that wireless broadband can support traditionally wired applications.

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Hill, Homeland Security trade barbs over border control tech

The Homeland Security Department’s enterprise architecture and its plans for a border control system came under fire from legislative overseers last week.

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The payback

Thin clients can support many users who need access to standardized applications.

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OMB clears up criteria to get to green

The Office of Management and Budget today gave agencies a clearer understanding of the criteria to meet green on the President’s Management Agenda scorecard.

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Blade servers gaining respect

Technology is an attractive option in clustered operations, places where space is scarce.

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Analyze this

The growing niche of business analytics gives public agencies new insights

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Saving space

More blades can fit into a given space than conventional servers can.

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Blades open new markets

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