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NUMA productlaunched
Data General Corp. is targeting the General Services Administration schedule with its recently introduced Aviion AV 20000 an Intel Corp. microprocessorbased system that uses NonUniform Memory Access technology. The AV 20000 Data General's most powerful server is designed for largescale computing
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Intergraph unveils reduced-cost, four-way enterprise server
Intergraph Computer Systems today announced two Microsoft Corp. Windows NT servers targeting enterprise and departmental computing that offer a price point up to $6 000 lower than previous models. Intergraph's InterServe 650tx and 660tx servers run up to four 200 MHz Pentium Pro processors. The pro
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AMS wins contract to track federal employees' nest eggs
American Management Systems Inc. last week announced an estimated $30 million contract to develop and install a recordkeeping system that will track the more than $47 billion that federal employees have invested in the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). The system will help manage TSP a retirement savings
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EDS to capture $26M DEIS II task order
Electronic Data Systems Corp. is on the brink of capturing the largest task order to be awarded under the Defense Enterprise Integration Services II pact: an estimated $26 million job to develop an ammunition inventory system for all the services. The Defense Information Systems Agency which manage
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Micron agrees to buy NetFrame
Micron Electronics Inc. last week agreed to acquire NetFrame Systems Inc. a move that would bring together a direct PC manufacturer and an enterprise server vendor. Micron Nampa Idaho markets notebooks PCs and lowend servers. NetFrame Milpitas Calif. sells highend multiprocessor servers with cont
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DOD counting on contractors to get compliance work done
The Defense Department is repairing or has scheduled the renovation of about 11 percent of its nearly 14 000 information technology systems in its Year 2000 compliance effort and expects to rely on contractors to get the work done. Sam Worthington DOD's director of IT and the Year 2000 program mana
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Nexar launches its new line of expandable systems
Nexar Technologies Inc. today took the wraps off its latest line of PCs designed to support multiple microprocessors and to make the task of upgrading major system components easier. Nexar's Cross Processor Architecture (XPA) midtower PC follows the Nexar 9000 and Nexar II in the company's evolutio
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Vendors give K6 a thumbs-up
ATLANTA Last week's Spring Comdex show featured vendor support for Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s K6 chip a projection of Windows NT 5.0 availability from Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates and a slew of new notebooks from Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. At Comdex Digital Equipment Corp.
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INDUSTRY WATCH
HP unveils server storage systemAs part of a new push into the data center environment with its 'Wintel' product line HewlettPackard Co. this week is unveiling a highend network server and a highdensity storage system. The NetServer LXr Pro based on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT comes with up to
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Five vendors tappedfor $100M Y2K work
The U.S. Postal Service this week is expected to sign ordering agreements with five vendors to provide wideranging Year 2000 services for the agency nationwide agreements that could be worth $100 million in business according to industry sources. The five vendors Computer Sciences Corp. Unisys
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Savant targets feds with Oracle database tool
Savant Corp. is gearing up for a federal sales push of its Oracle Corp. database systems management product.Savant Bethesda Md. markets Q Diagnostic Center for Oracle which is designed to help database administrators track the health of Oracle 7 database environments. Since its release last Novembe
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Bell Atlantic offers disaster recovery
Bell Atlantic Federal Systems last week launched a service to help agencies with disaster recovery planning for their data and communications networks. Bell Atlantic's CommGuard will cover a range of disaster recovery offerings from risk assessment to integrated disaster recovery solutions. The com
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Consolidation begins
The federal information technology services market is in the early stages of a consolidation phase as large players seek broader skill sets and small to midsize firms look for greater mass and liquidity.
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CA adds Customs Service pact to services portfolio
Computer Associates International Inc. recently captured one of its largest servicesoriented contracts ever an estimated $37 million pact with the Customs Service. Under the fiveyear contract signed two weeks ago CA's federal services group will support a number of CA products.
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Intergraph launches 3-D PC with aggressive pricing
Intergraph Computer Systems today announced a line of 3D PCs featuring Pentium and Pentium Pro chips graphics accelerator technology and commercial pricing that starts at $1 185. The new lowcost system will be available as part of a set of three new models Intergraph added to its TD PC line of Pe
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New industry estimates push Y2K costs skyward
Fixing the Year 2000 date change in the federal government's computer systems will cost more than twice what the Clinton administration has predicted according to a new industry study disclosed to Federal Computer Week last week. Federal Sources Inc. a McLean Va. market research firm predicts the g
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Five vendors seize 7-year SISTIR pact
The Food and Drug Administration this month awarded a $200 million contract to five vendors that will provide the agency with nearly all its information technology needs into the next century. The sevenyear Strategic Information Systems Technical Integration Resources (SISTIR) contract was awarded
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Vendors upgrade pacts with range of IT wares
Information technology vendors used the occasion of the recent FOSE conference in Washington D.C. to unveil new product additions to federal contracts. Vendors promoted a range of wares from highend PCs equipped with Pentium Pro chips to PC Cards designed for specialized security applications. I
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DISA puts computer store on hold to resolve issues
The Defense Information Systems Agency last week put on hold plans to create a virtual computer store that would provide hardware and maintenance services to the Defense Department. The agency withdrew a draft statement of work for its Defense Information Infrastructure Equipment and Maintenance (D
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DOD inches toward $1B SPS contract
The Defense Department is close to awarding the $1 billion Standard Procurement System although the Pentagon now appears likely to miss its March target for awarding the contract. SPS is intended to provide DOD contracting offices with a standard procurement application that takes advantage of comm
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