Digital Government
Putting money on solid state
Solid-state disks, which can access data hundreds of times faster than traditional hard disks, are being rediscovered by a new generation of IT professionals
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Where it began
A large part of the new security specification being developed will be based on an earlier project called the Security Services Markup Language (S2ML).
Digital Government
XML security fix in the works
Internet tech could tighten computer plumbing for online transactions
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Net storage gets serious
Market heavyweights push network-attached storage into the mainstream
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But can NAS do databases?
One of the longstanding knocks on network-attached storage was that it was fine for storing occasionally used files but not for more frequently accessed databases
Digital Government
Net woes hit fed market
The federal market has begun to feel the tremors from the nationwide shake-up in the Internet industry.
People
Who pays for e-government?
GovConnect will not be paid for work based on fees that citizens or businesses pay to use the egovernment application.
People
Replicating a successful model
GovConnect pitches egovernment solutions finetuned in state, local markets
Acquisition
For rent: Agency systems
Two agencies have signed contracts to rent enterprise application services from USinternetworking Inc.
Acquisition
B2G, take two
Earlier this year, Tony Bansal had maneuvered his business-to- government e-commerce company into what seemed to be the perfect position. Not long after, the company's can't-miss strategy was a little off the mark.
Digital Government
Key IP telephony standards
Do the voice-over-IP products you're evaluating use these industry-standard protocols or proprietary methods for handling calls?
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Actions speak louder than words
The idea that telephone and data networks will one day converge onto a single wire is hardly debated any more. The big question now is: When?
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Three lines into voice over IP
Gateway. A gateway sits between a telephone system, such as a private branch exchange (PBX) or a central office switch, and a data network, such as the Internet, and translates calls from one format to another.
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New things in store
IBM Global Services recently joined a small but growing number of companies offering data storage capacity and management services that customers can rent for a monthly fee.
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The fine print
When paying a storage service provider to buy and maintain storage equipment for you, the servicelevel agreement is the contract that spells out the terms and conditions of the services you will receive
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Clock strikes 12 for RSA
Security players have mixed views about whether this month's expiration of a key security patent will lower the prices that agencies pay for products that use encryption and digital signature technology. But they do agree that buyers should soon have more options from which to choose.
Digital Government
A secure marker
The name RSA comes from the three men who developed the cryptosystem in 1977 while working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman. A U.S. patent for the algorithm was issued in 1983 to MIT. It has since been licensed by hundreds of companies and is used in a range of digital certificatebased applications and protocols, including:
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Are IP phone systems secure?
Before the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard could connect its new voice-over-IP (VOIP) phone system, which runs on the yard's internal data network, to the public telephone system, it had to have the system's security approved by the Navy's security specialists.
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Finding its net voice
When the command at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard transferred responsibility for the yard's phone system from the facilities staff to the information technology department as part of a centralization project, the department did what many computer shops in the same situation would love to do: It hatched a plan to run those phones over its own IPbased computer data network.
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Other SAN appliance vendors to watch
Compaq Computer Corp.'s product, the SANworks Management Appliance, won't support data virtualization or remote mirroring until next year. But the company ships more canned SAN solutions than any other vendor
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