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Civilian GPS: Long on promise, short on funds
Despite the growth of GPS in the civilian market, there is still no national GPS infrastructure or budget in place to support it.
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Higher Ed Turns to ERP to Maintain Software
A growing number of higher education users are adopting enterprise resource management software to eliminate problems maintaining heavily customized software or to replace systems that are not Year 2000compliant. Frederick Community College in Frederick, Md., installed PeopleSoft Inc.'s Financial
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Air Force tests improved GPS radio
In the four years since fighter pilot Scott O'Grady's plane was shot down by the Serbian Army over Bosnia, forcing him to spend days hiding behind enemy lines waiting for rescuers, the Air Force has been trying to develop a radio that could better use the Global Positioning System to rescue downed
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Integration Broadens Appeal of GIS Data
State and local government users are on the leading edge when it comes to integrating geographic information systems.
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Making the pieces fit
As geographic information systems have moved into the hands of general users, the software has grown more interoperable and easier to use. However, significant interoperability hurdles still prevent the GIS market from realizing its full potential. Although standards and the increasing use of the I
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Loran upgrades network management
Loran Technologies Inc. next month will release a new version of its network management system that will provide advanced framerelay diagnostics, a high degree of integrated automation and a function called active reporting. The latter enables users to launch tasks to fix network problems that a s
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Beating the ERP Learning Curve
For the past year, city, county and state governments have been implementing enterprise resource planning software suites to repair, upgrade and streamline business and technology operations. Spurred initially by the need for Year 2000 compliance, civic agencies have leveraged financial management,
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Storage-Area Networks
As public information pours into state and local agency networks via the Internet, government data volumes are swelling beyond the capacity of existing networks and servers. To help solve the problem, state and local agencies are turning to storagearea networks to safeguard their missioncritical
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Managing through the stacks
Network management is one of the most vital, encompassing areas of information technology and is one that requires a lot of training. As networks expand globally and support more users and more applications, network management systems are growing more complex, more automated and, by necessity, easi
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Switching to the fast lane
Because of their speed and simplicity, network switches are replacing hubs and routers as the dominant form of internetworking in localarea networks today. Federal agencies are making the leap away from hubs and routers to take advantage of new capabilities offered in the latest generation of netw
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Market emerges for piecemeal 'seat' services
As federal agencies turn to seat management to get control of their expanding desktop computing environments, they must navigate a dizzying array of federal contract vehicles and pricing options to determine which best suits their needs. The federal outsourcing market took shape last year with the
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Expanding your view of the net
With the proliferation of networks, federal users are relying heavily on monitoring tools to deliver fast network response and to prevent downtime. No one single product can monitor everything on a network, and standards have not been fully developed. But today's tools have matured to the point whe
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SANs rise on fed horizon
Faced with the prolific growth of data and networks, a growing number of federal users are building early versions of storagearea networks on which they can offload traffic from increasingly burdened localarea networks. An extension of a client/server architecture, SANs are used to centralize sto
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Help-desk automation grows up
Once a standalone internal support application for managing calls from users, helpdesk automation tools have matured into products that can serve as central repositories of vital information for tracking information technology assets and managing network performance. Along the way, the software h
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On the road to ERP
The old maxim 'no pain, no gain' sums up the process of setting up enterprise resource planning systems. The benefits of ERP which integrates software modules covering the gamut of business management functions, including planning, manufacturing, sales and marketing systems have been well docum
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DVD bright on feds' horizon
Although best known for supporting video, DVD technology attracts agencies because of its large storage capacity
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DSL puts users on fast track
It takes time to translate new technology into common tools that are costeffective and easy to deploy. However, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) has begun to reward the trust of pioneering federal users by proving to be an efficient, economical way to quickly send and receive data across existing cop
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Vinca unveils DOS/NetWare net utility
Known traditionally for its data protection products, Vinca Corp. entered a different market recently with the introduction of a localarea network tool that improves LAN file administration and increases server availability. The product, called File Commander, allows network administrators to acce
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A new path for mainframe access
These Webtohost products, everincreasing in number, make it possible to provide access without the laborintensive process of porting mainframe applications to the Web. The new products typically provide a browserbased interface, which users from any platform can use, and server software that s
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