Virtual private networks
Take a look outside your office at the nearest freeway. If it's packed, you'll see why analysts say that virtual private networks are on the verge of a major boom. (If it's not, wait a few weeks.)
Interview: Rick Heroux, SEC's systems doctor
Rick Heroux is spearheading the modernization of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system.
Defense Department revamps its ID card program
Defense Manpower Data Center officials recently completed a worldwide rollout at 877 sites of an eligibility and enrollment database reporting system that could save the Defense Department hundreds of millions of dollars by reducing the use of fraudulent identification cards.
AF: Better IT starts at home
MONTGOMERY, Ala.'The Air Force's deputy chief information officer challenged information systems personnel to measure the effectiveness of their work against the service's mission and focus on training and information assurance.
Briefing Book
Seeking answers. An Office of the Secretary of Defense official called the value of the Defense Department Enterprise Software Initiatives into question, saying that many agencies can negotiate software license prices on their own.
Nortel builds in firewall services for Secure DSL
Nortel Networks Corp. has added Secure DSL firewall services to its Shasta 5000 Broadband Service Node as a way to protect always-on digital subscriber lines from intruders.
Extranet server from V-One sets up VPNs in a flash
An extranet server from V-One Corp. of Germantown, Md., can rapidly set up virtual private networks that connect remote users securely via the Internet to local network resources.
FAA to unify telecom systems
The Federal Aviation Administration expects to get more than extra bandwidth when it consolidates its telecommunications programs under a single contract next year.
INTERNAUT
Have you experienced gradual personalization? No, it's nothing romantic. It's a technology trend: persuading your agency's Web site visitors to share information with you so you can build customized page views for them.
Letters to the Editor
In reference to the Power User column 'Web page designers must remember their audiences' PC abilities' <a href="/vol18_no34/enterprise/776-1.html">[<i>GCN,</i> Oct. 11, Page 32]</a>, I have wrestled with this issue many times.
Editorial
CIO. When this job title was invented by industry years ago, the joke was that the acronym stood for 'career is over.' Like government, private industry regularly had trouble deploying large-scale information systems efficient-ly and in useful support of company business objectives. Chief information officers often became scapegoats for failed projects.
Off-the-shelf apps fine-tune operations, save money
Through a $24 million program, Navy officials for the past three years have been implementing commercial applications at shore facilities to improve readiness and efficiency.
Navy will buy PCs for recruits
Navy officials included the Cyber Seabag program, an effort to procure notebook PCs each year for incoming recruits, in the service's 2002 Program Objective Memorandum, said Daniel E. Porter, Navy chief information officer.
Interview: Daniel E. Porter
Daniel E. Porter became the Navy's chief information officer in September last year after serving as the assistant deputy chief of naval operations for logistics. Porter oversees information technology standards development for the service.
Toshiba closes price gap for notebooks, desktop PCs
The price difference between desktop and notebook computers has shrunk to a few hundred dollars in the latest models from Toshiba America Information Systems Inc.
Legato revamps lines and adds offsite backup
Legato Systems Inc., after acquiring availability software developer Vinca Corp. of Orem, Utah, has reorganized its product lines and introduced a disaster recovery product for Novell NetWare.
Beat The Clock
Slow burn. The primary danger from the year 2000 rollover is not temporary power or telephone outages but lingering economic dislocations, said former Office of Management and Budget information policy chief Bruce W. McConnell. He now heads the International Y2K Cooperation Center in Washington.
Tool from WRQ streamlines legacy-to-Web software
WRQ Inc.'s Apptrieve, an application mining tool, integrates data from legacy hosts into Web applications.
IBM's S/390 Multiprise server has extra capacity for e-commerce at no extra cost
IBM's newest S/390 Multiprise 3000 server comes with electronic commerce software and Lotus' Domino Release 5 collaboration software, said Dave Messina, IBM Corp.'s program director for S/390 marketing.
Linux takes off at NASA lab
Although many government users are taking a conservative stance toward Linux, the operating system has made inroads at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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