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Pentagon expands exclusive deal with McAfee
Nov. 18, 2009
The U.S. Defense Department is expanding its exclusive arrangement with McAfee, whose security software is at the heart of the military's cybersecurity efforts.

Feds: We need tools to meet transparency law
Nov. 16, 2009
Federal IT officials doubt that agencies can enforce the Obama administration's accountability and transparency rules as they spend funds allocated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, according to a ...

VeriSign bolsters security for .com, .net sites
Nov. 16, 2009
VeriSign says it will support DNS Security Extensions, dubbed DNSSEC, in the .net and .com top-level domains by March 2011.

Life after military service: Disabled vets win federal IT contracts
Nov. 11, 2009
Start-ups run by disabled vets are winning millions in federal IT contracts.

Veterans agency looks beyond EMC for multi-million storage deal
Nov. 09, 2009
With a 75-year retention requirement and 5 petabytes of data, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs faces major challenges when it comes to storing data in its primary data center in Austin, Texas.

Q&A: Why IP is the right choice for Smart Grid
Oct. 29, 2009
The biggest network upgrade in the United States today is Smart Grid, a multibillion dollar modernization of the electricity grid that involves supporting real-time, two-way digital communications between electric ...

Will Smart Grid power IPv6?
Oct. 29, 2009
Could Smart Grid, the Obama Administration's effort to modernize the nation's electric grid, be the killer app for IPv6?

IT pay cuts: Are you next?
Oct. 21, 2009
As more companies enforce across-the-board pay cuts and unpaid furloughs, a rising tide of IT professionals is seeing its annual compensation decline and must decide whether to switch employers as a result.

Next-generation Internet defies recession
Oct. 19, 2009
U.S. ISPs are requesting more IPv6 addresses and fewer IPv4 addresses than ever before -- a sign that carriers are investing in the future amidst one of the deepest recessions in modern history.

Secure telework without a VPN
Oct. 19, 2009
Toronto brokerage firm Octagon Capital ended up choosing an unusual hardware-and-cloud service from Route1 to secure its telework environment.

What's behind Web browser choices
Oct. 13, 2009
Despite fierce loyalty among Firefox and Chrome users, Microsoft's Internet Explorer is not in any danger of losing its majority market share, thanks to one group: enterprise companies.

Pentagon backs off cloud availability claims
Oct. 08, 2009
Days after claiming 99.999% availability for its new cloud computing service, a U.S. Defense Department spokesman says he misspoke and meant to say the agency is achieving 99.99% availability instead.

Boise State ditches Cisco DNS
Oct. 07, 2009
Boise State University, the largest university in Idaho, has replaced its aging Cisco Network Registrar software with appliances from BlueCat Networks that it says are easier to manage and less expensive to operate for ...

Pentagon: Our cloud is better than Google's
Oct. 05, 2009
The U.S. Defense Department is offering cloud computing services that military officials claim are safer and more reliable than commercial providers such as Google.

Google Wave invite-only preview begins
Sep. 29, 2009
Google on Wednesday will send out more than 100,000 invitations to developers to preview Google Wave, a new communications and collaboration tool that Google plans to release next year.

'`Facebook for feds" social networking site acquired
Sep. 28, 2009
A serendipitous meeting in March between the CEOs of two cutting-edge tech firms focused on enhancing government communications has led to an acquisition.

What to do about bandwidth hogs?
Sep. 24, 2009
InTown Suites, a low-cost extended-stay living chain, had a problem with users of file sharing applications who were consuming all of its network bandwidth. Here's how they solved the problem.

DC player Jim Payne joins Telcordia
Sep. 24, 2009
Veteran federal government marketer Jim Payne is joining Telcordia Technologies in a bid to raise the visibility and win contracts for this New Jersey-based network research shop.

Take two: Nominum tries hosted DNS
Sep. 22, 2009
Nominum is hoping that the second time is the charm in the outsourced DNS market, as the maker of high-end DNS software announces a hosted service.

Browser that launched an industry turns 15
Oct. 07, 2009

Tech's worst year ever?
Sep. 16, 2009
The tech industry has suffered some of its greatest losses ever in the past 12 months. Here's our look at the low points.

OpenDNS: Beyond free. We want paying customers
Sep. 14, 2009
Free isn't all it's cracked up to be. At least according to free DNS service provider OpenDNS, which is unveiling on Monday a suite of paid services targeted at enterprise customers.

Network in budget lockdown? No problem for this prison system
Sep. 10, 2009
State government IT budgets are as tight as ever, but the Nevada Department of Corrections is in a good position to hunker down and ride out the recession thanks to a recent network upgrade.

Feds to spend $5B on satellite services
Sep. 10, 2009
The U.S. federal government has launched a 10-year, $5 billion program to provide commercial satellite communications services to military and civilian customers.

Faster, more affordable satellite communications spark new services
Sep. 10, 2009
CIOs are giving satellite communications a second look, as providers deliver faster, more affordable services and as more government agencies and large corporations focus on keeping networks up and running.