Acquisition

Shopping for GWACs

Program offices juggle specialization, extra services and fees to entice buyers

Acquisition

GWACs: Too much of a good thing?

Governmentwide acquisition contracts have made their mark

Digital Government

Easing access control

Identity management has potential, but deployment is no picnic

Digital Government

Government eyes Liberty Alliance, SAML

Extending the benefit of single sign-on beyond an organization's walls is the goal of federated identity management

Digital Government

Biometrics get cheaper, smaller

Biometric devices are shrinking in cost and size, making the technology appeal to a broader group of customers and applications

Digital Government

Scents and sensibility

Biometric technology isn't all about hands, eyes and faces ? there's also body odor

Digital Government

Sensing the future of security

Once exotic, biometric technology may be heading for a desktop near you

Digital Government

Don't let downtime get you down

Planned network outages add up, but strategies exist for alleviating the pain

Digital Government

Planning for scheduled downtime

When it comes to downtime, customers traditionally have made disaster protection the top priority

People

Government interest in Web services grows

Some government and industry executives view Web services as a potential antidote for the data-sharing headaches of homeland security

Digital Government

Antarctica warms to federal market

Antarctica Systems Inc. officials plan to sell the company's data visualization product to federal agencies through an alliance

Digital Government

Software aims to smarten storage

Storage management wares automate SANs but face integration challenges

Digital Government

Evaluating SRM

USDA officials hope to pull together storage resources spread across two major data centers, three data warehouses and other repositories

Digital Government

Brains of storage?

Some SRM vendors describe their products as the brains of storage

Digital Government

Taming Web services

Emerging technologies may bring order to XML-based integration

Digital Government

Web Services workarounds

Standards for coordinating and managing Web services are still falling into place

Digital Government

Web services solutions

Challenges, Near-Term Solutions, and Longer-Term Solutions

Acquisition

ECS III: Loaded with technology

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