Cisco Phones get FIPS 140-2 encryption certs
NIST has certified the Cisco 7921G and 7925G wireless IP phones as having appropriately secured cryptographic modules for sensitive government communications.
Lack of virtualization regs is a challenge with classified systems
Federal agencies and the military find software certification to be a hurdle in running virtualized environments on classified systems, one integrator says.
Army employs visualization software to uncover procurement fraud
SRA International uses data visualization software from i2 to help the Army detect cases of bribery, money laundering, conspiracy and other malfeasance.
Capturing the private cloud
A private cloud could offer almost all the benefits of a public cloud but without the attendant security and privacy headaches. And for large organizations, it can even be less expensive.
W3C pulls plug on XHTML 2
World Wide Web Consortium halts work on the second version of the Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, and redirects its energies to the next version of the Hypertext Markup language.
Office productivity software wastes time, survey finds
E-document software provider Global Graphics Software recently surveyed 1,000 workers and asked them how easy their office software is to use.
Great .gov sites, round two
We're looking for a few more great government Web sites to highlight.
Google to develop new operating system
Google Chrome OS aimed for netbooks and lightweight, Web-based tasks.
Army Research Lab deploys cloud for app testing
What do you do if your application is so large that it would require all the nodes on your network just to test? If you're the Army Research Laboratory, you turn to cloud computing.
DARPA investigates extreme supercomputing
The Defense Department wants to take supercomputing to the next level by funding the development of a new breed of supercomputers that will be smarter and faster and yet smaller and require much less power than today's massive machines.
The bottom line on solid state drives
SSDs have advantages if you need quick access to data, and eventually, as their prices fall, they could become more common for PCs.
Solid-state drives find novel niches at some enterprises
Solid-state drives eventually will change the IT and physical architectures of most storage systems.
OMB posts financial reporting guidance for Recovery Act funds
The Office of Management and Budget has posted guidance for how organizations should submit their reports that detail how they are spending their Recovery Act dollars.
The power of DOE's patents
The Energy Department's research laboratories last year brought in nearly $44 million in royalties from licening of the labs' patents.
Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration tests command and control on the go
This year's Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration focused on mobility, field-testing a new set of prototype command and control technologies by running them in a simulated operational environment.
Ann Livermore | HP looks to take its place in the cloud
GCN Interview: The leader of HP's Technology Solutions Group discusses lessons from NMCI, the importance of cloud computing and Oracle's purchase of Sun.
DOE cannot quantify research lab gains: GAO
The Energy Department doesn't have adequate reporting measures in place to quantify how much success its national laboratories have in producing scientific research that private industry and others can use to develop new technologies, according to the Government Accountability Office.
EPA offers business intell software as internal service
Environmental Protection Agency discovers that, despite a few glitches, Oracle business intelligence software can be shared across the entire agency.
More apps need uptime all the time
A recent survey of IT managers and executives found that an increasing number of their applications require the highest levels of availability.
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