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Active Software expands integration offering
Active Software Inc., which is part of the emerging enterprise application integration market, announced last week 23 new 'adapters' that allow organizations to integrate information from various applications and other data sources. The adapters are readymade system interfaces that run as part of
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IBM rolls out clustering for low, midrange users
IBM Corp. last week made a big push into the highavailability computing market with a new Unix server solution for small and midsize organizations and with new cluster management technology. Clustering, which is designed for organizations that cannot afford to have their servers crash and disrupt
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Robbins-Gioia tweaks earned-value method of assessment
Program management specialist RobbinsGioia Inc. is giving a new twist to the socalled earnedvalue method of assessing contract management, which is already used on various government projects. EVM, which has its roots in the Defense Department, basically integrates three components of project ma
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Workgroup storage users find option-rich solutions
Options abound for agencies that need storage for small to midsize groups of networked PC users as vendors enrich the different storage media with new technology and features. Magnetic disk storage remains the predominant solution for workgroup storage because the response time is superior and the
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Sun debuts midrange servers
Sun Microsystems Inc. has unveiled a new line of midrange servers that the company said will give federal users higher performance and availability features typically found only in mainframe systems. The new Enterprise servers including the 3500, 4500, 5500 and 6500 are designed to provide the
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MathSoft broadens statistical package
MathSoft Inc. this week will introduce a new release of its statistical analysis software designed to appeal to people outside the company's traditional base of professional number crunchers. SPlus is a datamining software tool that allows statisticians in scientific and similar communities to ca
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SmartDB targets legacy migration
Driven by the growth of client/server systems and the popularity of Internet and intranet environments, federal users are turning to specialized data migration products that automate the process of moving legacy data to new environments. One such tool is SmartDB Workbench by SmartDB Corp., which pr
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SGI unveils Intel-centric technology road map
Silicon Graphics Inc., best known for its highend and highcost Unix servers and workstations, will revamp its product line to develop more affordable systems based on the Microsoft Corp. Windows NT operating system and Intel Corp. processors, the company announced last week. SGI will port its Uni
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Feds, states consider Army training network
Prompted by a congressional mandate and generous funding to pursue distance learning, the National Guard Bureau has established a network to better train its soldiers, and it is close to signing on federal and state agencies. The 367,000 soldiers who make up the Army National Guard will use the
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Asymetrix ships course management software
Asymetrix Learning Systems Inc. last month began shipping a more scalable release of its computerbased training management software, which automates the distribution, lesson management and assessment of training applications. Librarian 6.0 works in conjunction with Asymetrix's ToolBook II software
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CA adds remote-control technology options
Federal users of Computer Associates International Inc.'s Unicenter TNG systems management solution now have the option for integrated remote control of their servers and desktops, the company announced late last month. The Remote Control Option allows distant technical experts to address problems
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Found in Space
The U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division known as the Big Red One attacked Saddam Hussein's vaunted Republican Guard and a brigade of regular Iraqi troops Feb. 26, 1991, at 10 p.m., with no moon to shed light on the landscape of the Iraqi desert. The Iraqi forces, some 8,000 men, were part of Sadd
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Wang, Microsoft extend partnership
Wang Global and Microsoft Corp. have greatly expanded a 3yearold partnership to cover an array of desktop solutions and to provide muchneeded Microsoftcertified engineers and solutions developers. Wang and Microsoft first formed an alliance in 1995 to focus on imaging and workflow (which Wang n
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NSF's Digital initiative to solve cross-agency IT problems
The National Science Foundation has launched an initiative to improve government services by bringing together federal agencies that share common problems with academic and industry researchers. Dubbed the Digital Government Initiative, the effort so far has identified a number of 'affinity groups'
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Cisco's voice-over-IP solution could lure feds
New voice/faxoverIP software and hardware for Cisco Systems Inc.'s 3600 Series routers may save money for federal customers allowing them to offload voice and fax traffic from expensive voice lines onto their existing data infrastructures. Likely beneficiaries include agencies with a mix of wide
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Commission urges cooperation between government, industry
In addition to quadrupling spending on current infrastructureassurance research and development efforts a presidential commission will recommend that the private sector forge relationships with the federal government through partnerships such as a joint information warning and analysis center to s
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LAN switching prices drop
As highspeed localarea network switching technology continues to pour into the market the price per port of existing products continues to fall most markedly at the lower end of the spectrum. The price of LAN switching gear increasingly viewed in the federal sector as an alternative to traditiona
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CAD innovations spur productivity, savings
Although computeraided design software has been around for two decades the market has been rejuvenated in the past couple of years by advances in a number of supporting technologies. On the one hand highpowered affordable desktops have made CAD ubiquitous as vendors such as Autodesk Inc. and Inte
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NIST initiative will shine spotlight on Elliptic Curve
A recent initiative at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to broaden the government's Digital Signature Standard (DSS) has increased the visibility of a littleknown encryption technology: Elliptic Curve. NIST last month said it plans to develop a proposed revision to DSS that would
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CAN YOU OUTSOURCE IT ALL?
As the cost of providing information technology services escalates and IT budgets shrink local governments are increasingly turning to outside contractors to achieve the efficiency and cost controls they have been unable to produce on their own.
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