Author Archive
Modernization
Three ways to consolidate
The main distinction involves the type of products, which will determine the pool of available vendors.
Modernization
Cleaning up the clutter
Agencies find storage consolidation an indispensable IT housekeeping task
People
Words of advice
Define requirements. Don't reinvent the wheel. Know your applications. Test everything. Roll out in phases. Think security. Back it up.
Digital Government
Better late than never
Storage-area networks may see lift from IP-based high-bandwidth connection
Digital Government
USPTO will wait it out
Those that have labored to deploy Fibre Channel networks are simply not interested in a still evolving IP SAN connection
Digital Government
Other standards solve other problems
SCSI over IP is not the only storage interconnect protocol under development by the Internet Engineering Task Force
Digital Government
Mobilizing security
Growth of wireless applications drives need for greater protection
Digital Government
Crackproof wireless apps
Security experts recommend that wellprotected wireless applications have:
Digital Government
VHA works out wireless kinks
The Veterans Health Administration's Medical Information Security Service evaluates security requirements for wireless applications that are being used throughout VHA's 173 medical centers
Digital Government
A way to grow more storage
When it came to keeping up with his organization's growing data storage needs, Randy Oehrle knew that the handwriting was on the wall
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Acquisition
Lincoln County rejects SAN sticker shock
Bids were released, responses received and then sticker shock ensued
Digital Government
USPS squeezes most out of tape
Megabyte for megabyte, tape may be the most affordable medium for storing electronic data, but its cost advantage can be diminished if data is not stored on the tape as efficiently as possible.
Digital Government
NASA tackles planetary-size backup job
At the NASA Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) in the Earth and Space Data Computing Division at Goddard Space Flight Center, the role of tape subsystems that support NASA supercomputers is nothing less than mission-critical, said Ellen Salmon, mass storage team leader at the Greenbelt, Md., facility.
