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Pentagon expands exclusive deal with McAfee

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. McAfee was selected three years ago for the Department of Defense's Host Based Security ...

From CAROLYN DUFFY MARSAN, NetworkWorld,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: US Department of Defense,  Forrester Research, Inc.,  Tom Conway,  Northrop Grumman Corp,  National Guard

VeriSign bolsters security for .com and .net sites

Network World - More than 95 million Web sites –- including 80 million using .com names and 15 million using .net names –- will have access to new security mechanisms that prevent visitors from being unknowingly sent to phony sites engaged in phishing ...

From CAROLYN DUFFY MARSAN, ComputerWorld,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: VeriSign, Inc.,  Pat Kane,  Network Solutions

VeriSign bolsters security for .com, .net sites

More than 95 million Web sites – including 80 million using .com names and 15 million using .net names – will have access to new security mechanisms that prevent visitors from being unknowingly sent to phony sites engaged in phishing and ...

From CAROLYN DUFFY MARSAN, NetworkWorld,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: VeriSign, Inc.,  Pat Kane,  Network Solutions

Managing Technology: Outbreak

Agencies lag at telework, but could H1N1 be the catalyst for change? Federal agencies have been slow to ramp up telework programs that allow employees to work remotely, which could be a threat to operations if the H1N1 pandemic worsens. Telework offers ...

From CAROLYN DUFFY MARSAN, NextGov,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Gartner, Inc.,  General Services Administration,  Barack Obama

Veterans agency looks beyond EMC for multimillion-dollar storage deal

Network World - 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. Now the VA is taking on another challenge: ...

From CAROLYN DUFFY MARSAN, ComputerWorld,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Hitachi, Ltd.,  Gartner, Inc.

Veterans agency looks beyond EMC for multi-million storage deal

VA instead enlists Vion/Hitachi for 2 petabytes of tiered storage 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 ...

From CAROLYN DUFFY MARSAN, NetworkWorld,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Hitachi, Ltd.,  Gartner, Inc.,  BMC Software, Inc.

Boise State ditches Cisco DNS

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 Domain Name System  and Dynamic ...

From CAROLYN DUFFY MARSAN, NetworkWorld,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Novell, Inc.

Pentagon: Our cloud is better than Google's cloud

Network World - 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. At a press conference Monday, the Defense Information Systems Agency ...

From CAROLYN DUFFY MARSAN, ComputerWorld,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

What to do about bandwidth hogs?

Network World - 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. Based in Atlanta, InTown Suites has 139 properties around the country that use ...

From CAROLYN DUFFY MARSAN, ComputerWorld,  24 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Cisco Systems, Inc.,  Packeteer, Inc.

Management Matters: No Looking Back

Think IPv6 is so 2008? Think again. All agencies met the Office of Management and Budget's June 2008 deadline to demonstrate their ability to carry IPv6 traffic across their backbone networks, but that doesn't mean the federal government is ready for ...

From CAROLYN DUFFY MARSAN, GovExec.com,  23 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Cisco Systems, Inc.,  AT&T Inc.

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