Treat that Web content like laundry
Agency webmasters should host static and dynamic Web pages on separate servers to minimize response time, one content management software provider suggests.<br>
IBM prepackages supercomputing for small agencies
Preconfigured server clusters will minimize setup and management hassles for small to midsized agencies, according to IBM Corp.<br>
Coming Defense policy to set use limits on WiFi
Although the Defense Department continues to say it will soon issue a much-delayed policy to guide the use of WiFi equipment, the final policy remains holed up at the Pentagon.
Energy pulls plugs on world's largest database
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's Objectivity database has stopped growing, a victim of industry standardization within the scientific community.
How Interior employees learned their new work alphabet
Last October, the Interior Department began requiring its 60,000 employees to detail how they spend each hour of the workday under activity-based costing.
Defense agencies develop data-sharing standard
The Defense Department and defense agencies from several countries have developed a standard for documenting and sharing configuration information about large systems.<br>
Mary Dixon - Defense: Uncommon success
As the daughter of an Air Force officer, Mary Dixon was born to high expectations. 'I am a driven person, so I am always trying to make things better,' said the program manager of the Defense Department's Common Access Card program.
SAS 9 goes modular
With the latest update of its flagship statistical software, SAS Institute Inc. is stressing a building-block nature to fit more easily into agency enterprise architectures.<br>
Veritas launches document storage management software
Veritas Software Corp. of Mountain View, Calif., has released software that will help agencies automatically file and dispose of electronic documents.
Defense receives pair of bids for joint radio design phase
Competition is heating up for the next phase of the Defense Department's Joint Tactical Radio System: Teams led by Lockheed Martin and Boeing have submitted proposals to design JTRS Air Force and Navy radios.
North Carolina State University unveils new networking protocol
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new protocol to speed data transfers.
SGI tinkers with hybrid computer architecture
Seeking the best of both chip design worlds, SGI is working on high-performance computers that combine vector- and scalar-processing components.
Sun and Microsoft promise to play nice
The $1.9 billion agreement between Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. promises interoperability between the company's product lines, company executives said today.<br>
FOSE 2004 delivers techie goodies
'Government is starting to lead in its implementation of technology to change process,' Cisco Systems Inc. CEO John Chambers said during the FOSE 2004 opening address in Washington.
Successor to world's most powerful supercomputer planned
The director of Japan's Earth Simulator Center is laying plans for an even more powerful successor to the supercomputer under his charge, regarded by many as the world's most powerful computer.
DOD set to issue policy on WiFi use
The Defense Department will soon issue a policy to guide the use of WiFi equipment, said Ronald Jost, director of wireless technology for the Department of Defense.
Supercomputing's latest challenge: Keeping cool
Organizations building and running supercomputers need to develop new ways of keeping those systems cool, the chief technology officer for Silicon Graphics says.<br>
Incoming
<b>GIG is up</b>. The Defense Department is moving forward on a major piece of its technology transformation.CIO John Stenbit said Version 1 of the Net-Centric Enterprise Services program would be deployed on Oct. 1 at the 10 sites that will begin rolling out the Global Information Grid'Bandwidth Expansion network.
Microsoft offers peek at Visual Studio 2005
New version of Visual Studio will offer more tools for building Web applications.<br>
AKO undergoes spiral development
The Army Knowledge Online program is upgrading its portal using a methodology for building large platforms called spiral development, said Michael Beckley, chief technology officer and cofounder of Appian Corp.<br>
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