CSIA advises feds to promote telework as continuity measure
Federal agencies should do more to allow their employees to work at home so that government can continue operations in the event of a terrorist attack, according to a network-security policy group.
Feds want disks that are able to last 40 years
A federal data preservation working group has found that government agencies would like their recordable optical disks to last at least 40 years, if not longer.
Oracle details Fusion plans
Government program managers got a glimpse of the next-generation enterprise resource planning platform from Oracle Corp. during the Oracle Government Users Conference.
Put a cell tower in the hallway
Agencies turn to in-building wireless systems to consolidate all forms of voice and data traffic.
Government wants long-lasting disks
A federal data preservation working group has found that government agencies would like their recordable optical disks to last at least 40 years, if not longer.
Jim Goodnight | Intelligence apps look to future
It's no surprise that SAS Institute Inc., the world's largest privately held software company, makes its home in Cary, N.C. With headquarters so near three of the state's top universities'Duke University, North Carolina State University in Raleigh and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill'the company has its pick of math and computer science graduates.
DOD bulks up supercomputing power
The Defense Department has purchased a new supercomputer to handle large jobs such as designing weapons and running large simulation programs.
White House calls for unified R&D spending
Agencies should look at ways to combine their individual R&D efforts, including projects involving networking and computer science, according to a White House memorandum issued earlier this month.
Storage World: Lots of serial on the shelves
At last month's Storage World Conference near Los Angeles, the exhibit floor was rife with serial-attached storage solutions.
The little cable that could
Get out the red pens and mark up your enterprise storage RFPs.
White House calls for unified R&D spending
Agencies should look at ways to combine their individual R&D efforts, including projects involving networking and computer science, the White House says.
Do you know what you know?
The instruction was clear: 'No new data entry from the field.'
The real cost of open-source software
Although Linus Torvalds may be the person most people associate with the Linux operating system, Jon 'Maddog' Hall, with his hippie-length white hair and Santa Claus beard, is a close second as the public face of the open-source movement.
New hope for data exchanges
With the revision of the Federal Enterprise Architecture's Data Reference Model, expected in December, federal agencies could finally have solid metrics to evaluate how well they share data, said Michael Daconta, metadata program manager for the Homeland Security Department.
E-Government run amok!
In the first half of 2004, when the Environmental Protection Agency solicited public feedback for a proposed rule that would limit mercury output from power plants, it received almost 540,000 comments over the Internet.
Help Yourself
Are operating systems and applications irrevocably tied to the servers that run them?
Make way for serial attached storage
The storage industry's next big wave of change will be the growing use of serial attached storage devices.
How to let the cat out of the bag
So you've developed a program at your agency and now you want to let it loose for the public to play with and improve.
Open for business
Earlier this year, when the Army Research Laboratory posted one of its venerable computer-aided design applications on the Web'including the source code'the program's user base doubled almost overnight.
E-government could be a new academic field
ATLANTA'The scientific study of how government uses technology to interact with citizens is not a full-fledged discipline yet, though the building blocks are in place for it to become one, according to a panel at the National Science Foundation's annual meeting for researchers in its Digital Government program.
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