Acquisition

Lessons learned

When the Internet land-grab was in full swing 18 months ago, entrepreneurs with pockets stuffed with cash gazed upon a multibillion-dollar federal procurement budget and were convinced they saw a gold mine

People

EPA shortens the paper trail

Inspectors will use PDAs to reduce report backlog

People

Tips for setting up telecommuters

Be sure to emphasize voice communications as much as data

People

Working the kinks out of home offices

For would-be teleworkers, advances in networking, voice services and software make it possible to duplicate high-tech offices at home

Digital Government

Safe at any speed

Besides providing faster access to soldiers' records, the Army's new Web-enabled records management system provides a safer environment for the records, too.

Digital Government

Meeting the demand for data

Army updates records management system to improve access to personnel files

Digital Government

Microsoft extends deadline

Agencies can enroll in software upgrade plan in fiscal 2002

Digital Government

Microsoft adding subscription option

Microsoft Corp. will offer a new subscription option for its software licenses beginning Oct. 1

Modernization

Giving voice to convergence

Postal Service IG makes the leap to computer telephony

Digital Government

Oracle9i adds oomph with server support

Like other enterprises, many federal agencies want to use clusters of smaller, less expensive computers to do the same job that used to require one big, expensive system. With the official release two weeks ago of its Oracle9i Database, Oracle Corp. is delivering a database that makes it far easier for agencies to run their commercial offtheshelf software on these clusters, analysts say.

Digital Government

Oracle release aims at 'real world'

With Oracle9i, agencies can run off-the-shelf enterprise software on cost-effective clusters of computers

Digital Government

Why security is so hard

What will it take to make federal agencies more serious about computer and information security? We will learn shortly whether the Government Information Security Reform Act can do the trick.

Digital Government

BMC completes the picture

Acquisition adds network performance to management tools

Digital Government

FileTek adds support for large objects

StorHouse 3.0 enables users to store large data objects on the most cost-effective storage media

Modernization

Enum has your number

Companies test registries that standardize Internet telephony

Digital Government

Been there, done that

Pioneering agency has tales to tell about application outsourcing

Digital Government

Cisco makes storage link

Cisco starts shipping a new router this month that bridges general-purpose Ethernet networks with specialized storage networks.

Digital Government

Tape RAID offers speed, protection

Besides providing fault tolerance in case of a hard-drive failure, a Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) can also deliver extremely high performance

Digital Government

A surplus of storage options

Adding capacity is easy; deciding how to do it isn't

Digital Government

With thin servers, you can pay as you grow

Dell Computer Corp. says thin servers are the fastestgrowing product line in its business.