Better security for client PCs
With hackers and viruses lurking around every digital corner, protecting users' personal computers is second in importance only to protecting your servers.
Project managers get a powerful tool
FastTrack Schedule 9 from AEC Software can help break down projects in terms of the human and financial resources, as well as time, needed to complete different stages.<br><b><font color="CC0000">|GCN Lab</font> Reviewer's Choice|</b><br>
Tiered SAN means better storage
The Storage Center from Compellent is a good example of the advantages a SAN can bring to your network. Its methods of data management and expandability bring network storage to a whole new level.
Mixing the menu
If there were ever a technology that seemed tailored to the needs of government, it's service-oriented architecture. With thousands of disparate systems needing to share information across organizational boundaries'particularly homeland security information'SOA offers agencies an attractive shortcut to their data-sharing goals.
VA CIO resigns over pace of IT changes
Veterans Affairs CIO Robert McFarland's patience has run out. With VA's executive leadership not moving fast enough on IT reorganization, McFarland resigned effective April 30.
NIST sets FISMA standards for federal IT systems
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released the final standard for securing agency computer systems under the Federal Information Security Management Act.
Tech Brief: Network acceleration
RiverBed Technologies Inc. of San Francisco has released two small appliances that hasten wide area network throughput.
Tech Brief: Government software
NASA Ames Research Center has opened a repository of all the open-source software packages it has developed.
Tech Brief: Content management
Xerox Corp. of Stamford, Conn., will soon release a companion to its DocuShare enterprise content management suite called DocuShare CPX.
GCN Insider: Sit 'n' sew
Interior Department chief technology officer Daud Santosa is bullish on using architectural references to simplify system development and procurement.
GCN Insider: Flight control
Athena Technologies Inc. of Warrenton, Va., hopes to commodify unmanned aerial vehicle operating systems in much the same way that Microsoft standardized the personal computer market with its one-size-fits-all OS.
GCN Insider: 3-D glasses not included
We've known for a while that you can insert short movies or audio segments into a Portable Document Format file'it's great for when you want your document to talk to readers. The latest PDF multimedia enhancement from Adobe Systems Inc. impressed us.
Taking aim at distance, cost of quantum crypto
Earlier this month, MagiQ Technologies of New York City published a joint white paper with Verizon Communications Inc. describing what it claims are important findings for enabling deployment of quantum cryptography.
A quantum leap for cryptography
An international team of government, academic and commercial researchers has made significant strides in their quest to accelerate secure quantum cryptography.
CYBEREYE: Security: Lots of lessons, nothing learned
The issues of personal data security and identity theft broke into the national consciousness a year ago, when Choice-Point reported that thieves had established accounts with the data broker to obtain sensitive information on 145,000 people.
Users of SELinux now have a choice on security
The release of a new open-source security package has sparked debate over how many Mandatory Access Control applications Linux really needs, and if more than one would just dilute volunteer efforts.
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