Digital Government
Simplifying performance monitoring tools
There's a new way to monitor information systems that promises to help agencies make the systems work faster and more reliably. If done right, it'll probably save them money, too.
Digital Government
'Melissa's' Message: Practice Protection
Municipal governments across the country probably winced when Portland, Ore.'s computers and countless other networks across the nation were jammed by the 'Melissa' virus last month. It was a network nightmare that drives home the importance of updating your antivirus software. Civic networks cert
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On the VPN Trail
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation has become the first state law enforcement agency in the nation to launch a virtual private network to exchange highly sensitive files with the state's police departments over the Internet.
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Cutting Your Agency's Video and Phone Costs
Following their success in improving data networking systems, Internet technology developers are tackling how the Internet can capably handle other forms of traffic, including voice and video communications. The emergence of services such as Internetbased telephony and video promises to enable sta
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Florida Supreme Court Weighs IP Videoconferencing
Judges at the Florida Supreme Court in Tampa must regularly travel to satellite offices 60 miles away in Lakeland, Fla., to discuss casework involved in some of the 5,000 appeals that the court examines each year. To cut down on the trips, which require the judges to travel on Florida's busy Inters
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Exchange Standard
Directories, the heart of all corporate networks and the foundation for applications such as email, have created problems for federal network managers who have struggled to keep their disparate directories in sync. To help with this task, vendors have begun moving to a standard called Lightweight
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Switched Ethernet emerges as high-speed LAN favorite
Although the demand for more network bandwidth could lead some agencies to adopt Fast Ethernet or other highspeed networking technologies, network vendors also are pushing switched networking as a more practical option. Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Fast Ethernet and highspeed token ring all
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LAN War
The local-area network operating system battle now looks like a two-company fight.
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Virtual LANs ease administrative burdens
Localarea networks have grown larger more complicated and more dispersed since they were introduced in the 1980s. These changes fueled a desire among network administrators at government agencies for simpler administration. Virtual LANs (VLANs) offer such a possibility. VLAN a software feature ava
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Competition drives changes in network operating system technology
During the last several years the criteria for selecting networking operating systems has evolved as the technology has taken on new roles. Localarea network operating system (NOS) selections once centered on which product offered the fastest file and print services. In recent years however file a
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Electronic Turf Warfare
Jerry Paul information systems manager for Salinas Calif. predicted the city's computing future.
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As financial management systems strain, agencies eye COTS relief
Recent legislation has forced federal agencies to examine their financial management systems (FMS) with an eye to producing more and increasingly detailed accounting reports. Faced with costly overhauls of systems developed inhouse many are turning to commercial offtheshelf products as the basis
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