OMB fills long-vacant OIRA post
APRIL 12—The Office of Management and Budget yesterday officially named Daniel Chenok chief of information policy and technology at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
Finjan product blocks hostile programs, detects Trojan horses
Finjan Software Inc. is moving beyond the browser with the latest release of its SurfinShield Corporate security software, which protects against executable files transferred by e-mail and instant messaging, as well as via the Web.
Marines gain central management of ATM network
The Marine Corps' asynchronous transfer mode network at Camp Le Jeune, N.C., has 13,000 users but supports a constantly shifting community as large as 150,000 people.
Gigabit Ethernet hub supports multiple types of fiber ports for server farms
An eight-port Gigabit Ethernet hub from Compex Inc. of Anaheim, Calif., is designed to serve data-intensive environments such as power workgroups or server farms.
THE BELTWAY AND BEYOND: Stephen M. Ryan
The Washington area has become a hot spot in the high-tech world. Although that includes the Maryland suburbs, it is doings in the politics of Virginia that could affect the lives of federal information technology workers.
NWS preps for storm of data
Last year, the Cray C-90 supercomputer at the National Weather Service's National Centers for Environmental Prediction produced about 10G of data per day. This fall, when a newly installed 786-processor RS/6000 SP supercomputer from IBM Corp. is upgraded, output will run about 100G per day.
THE VIEW FROM INSIDE: Walter R. Houser
Carnegie Mellon University's Software Capability Maturity Model certification is becoming a new check box on federal information technology managers' evaluations. Unfortunately, the five-level CMM'developed by Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute'is unknown to far too many Web developers.
Letters to the Editor
I am writing in response to the article 'N.Y. telecom services halted by wiring snafu' [<a href="http://www.gcn.com/vol19_no6/news/1535-1.html"><i>GCN</i>, March 20, Page 3</a>].
INTERNAUT
Steve Gibson is a man on a mission. He wants to protect the privacy of the data on your PC.
Count down to basics
File the coding snafu that felled NASA's Mars Polar Orbiter under the for-want-of-a-nail-Rome-was-lost category.
Supreme Court ventures online
APRIL 11—The Supreme Court is taking its first step online by launching a Web site.
House passes Agriculture E-file Act
APRIL 11—The House on Monday passed the Freedom to E-file Act (S 777), which would require the Agriculture Department to establish an electronic filing and retrieval system via the Internet so farmers could download and file paperwork electronically.
ENTERPRISE COMPUTING: New Products
Quantum Corp.'s Snap Server line of network-attached storage devices now includes 40G models, up from 32G maximum.
SiteScape upgrades Forum collaboration software
SiteScape Inc. has upgraded its Forum collaboration product to make it easier for users to customize the Web software.
Rambus memory arrives in high-end workstations
Although the supply pipeline has not fully opened for Intel Corp.'s new 733-, 750- and 800-MHz Pentium III processors and the i840 chip set for Rambus dynamic RAM (RDRAM) channels, Gateway Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. expect no long wait in filling system orders.
Conference showcases big and small enterprise appliances
Information technologists are the samurai of the Internet age, futurist James Canton said at a recent conference sponsored by Giga Information Group Inc. of Stamford, Conn.
Sun StorEdge array based on Fibre Channel
The Sun Microsystems StorEdge A3500FC RAID array has dual Fibre Channel host interfaces and holds up to 4.3T of data.
OPM creates data warehouse
The Office of Personnel Management has taken the first steps toward building a comprehensive warehouse of federal work force information.
POWER USER
As Microsoft Corp. navigates its way around the court system, users are learning to navigate the software giant's new operating system and massive office suite. The trick is to make Windows 2000 Professional and Office 2000 work for you, not against you.
Free SecurityManager does DES encryption for Windows
Lightweight, downloadable SecurityManager 99 freeware wastes no time encrypting Microsoft Windows files under the federal Data Encryption Standard
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