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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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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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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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