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Managing servers

This summer, Opsware Inc. officials will introduce a new version of the company's server management software, Opsware System 4.1...

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Sizing up coded message options

Feds face numerous ? and nuanced ? encryption schemes for securing e-mail

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Satellite orbits around server management

A new product from Opsware Inc. may help agencies remotely manage servers.

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No net. Don't say cheese.

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Network monitoring comes of age

NetQoS analyzes almost all the important types of WAN traffic.

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HHS adopts standards to speed health IT

Health and Human Services secretary Tommy Thompson wants his department to implement electronic health records ahead of the president’s 10-year goal.

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Broadband goes rural

Companies use loans to bring high-speed wireless Internet access to rural areas

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Putnam, Davis seek changes to Clinger-Cohen

Reps. Adam Putnam (R-Fla.) and Tom Davis (R-Va.) last week added proposed language to four sections of the 1996 Clinger-Cohen Act, which governs how agencies make their IT investments.

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Defense medical records system is rolling out ahead of schedule

Defense Department officials say military units are already ahead of schedule in meeting a recent mandate by President Bush for federal agencies to keep electronic health records of personnel and their families.

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OMB targets desktop hole in cybersecurity

Agencies are failing at the first line of defense against cyberattacks for lack of minimum desktop configuration security standards. And the Office of Management and Budget is trying to patch the gap, said Karen Evans, administrator for e-government and IT.

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Will the DHS financial system emerge, too?

Teams of contractors vying to develop the Homeland Security Department’s integrated financial system, dubbed Emerge2, face a risky task.

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CeLight wins DOD optical deal

The company ultimately plans to have a transceiver for stopping optical jammers and eavesdroppers.

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FAA telecom turbulence

Overseeing the Federal Aviation Administration's telecommunications has been a tough job so far, says the man in charge of it.

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States, feds working to fix Matrix

State officials would keep greater control of their own information under a plan that federal officials hope will bolster support for an antiterrorism information-sharing network.

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Meeting face to face

Ubiquitous IP networks fuel videoconferencing rollouts

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IP videoconferencing toolbox

A well-equipped IP videoconferencing system requires a handful of key components

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Visualizing results

CIA's venture arm invests in data visualization tech

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Mission gap: A special report on the Homeland Security Department

Two years after coming into being, the Homeland Security Department is still under construction, a loose collection of agencies not bound by a common infrastructure. GCN focuses this report on the gaps in Homeland's bridge to domestic security, and its successes to date as well.

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BAM!; Targeting the government

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Cooper, Congress look to reshape chain of command

Congressional Democrats recently branded the Homeland Security Department’s IT management as less than effective and blamed it on “an organizationally weak DHS CIO’s office.”