http://gcn.com/rss-feeds/enterprise-architecture.aspx Emphasis on mission-enabling, situational awareness and integration echoes current areas of focus for Defense Department. http://gcn.com/articles/2010/03/17/nasa-it-security.aspx Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:00:41 GMT hkuldell@1105media.com (hkuldell) http://gcn.com/articles/2010/03/17/nasa-it-security.aspx Virtualization has reduced data center footprints, but little has been done to disentangle the duplication and complexity of information and applications sitting in those servers, observes Francis Hsu, an information executive working for the Homeland Security Department. http://gcn.com/articles/2010/03/15/another-view-the-need-for-reality-management-in-it.aspx Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:55:29 GMT smiller@1105media.com (smiller) http://gcn.com/articles/2010/03/15/another-view-the-need-for-reality-management-in-it.aspx Abilene, Texas, needed to replace outdated, stovepiped, mainframe-based HR and financial management applications and is moving to an integrated system that offers better management of complex municipal resources. http://gcn.com/articles/2010/03/15/abilene-texas-integrated-erp.aspx Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:51:15 GMT bjackson@1105media.com (bjackson) http://gcn.com/articles/2010/03/15/abilene-texas-integrated-erp.aspx Abilene, Texas, demanded the best from its vendor in an upgrade of financial and human resources management systems. http://gcn.com/articles/2010/03/15/abilene-erp-side-lessons.aspx Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:47:08 GMT mprotos@1105media.com (mprotos) http://gcn.com/articles/2010/03/15/abilene-erp-side-lessons.aspx Over the next two years the Army will consolidate the various e-mail accounts for nearly 250,000 users, the first step in creating enterprise-wide e-mail services. http://gcn.com/articles/2010/03/11/army-enterprise-email.aspx Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:10:50 GMT jmonroe@1105media.com (jmonroe) http://gcn.com/articles/2010/03/11/army-enterprise-email.aspx NASA recently announced that it would be reworking its plans for acquiring an enterprise data center to better meet the agency's needs. http://gcn.com/articles/2010/03/08/web-nasa-enterprise-data-center.aspx Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:11:24 GMT mhardy@1105media.com (mhardy) http://gcn.com/articles/2010/03/08/web-nasa-enterprise-data-center.aspx Agencies are not including cloud computing in their modernization plans, survey shows. http://gcn.com/articles/2010/03/02/agencies-plan-mainframe-upgrades.aspx Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:49:28 GMT mhardy@1105media.com (mhardy) http://gcn.com/articles/2010/03/02/agencies-plan-mainframe-upgrades.aspx It's important to correctly estimate the strain virtualization will put on your servers. Is your data center more like a sporadically utilized home workshop? Or more like an occasionally very busy kitchen? http://gcn.com/articles/2010/02/24/internaut-virtual-servers-capacity.aspx Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:00:00 GMT kmccaney@1105media.com (kmccaney) http://gcn.com/articles/2010/02/24/internaut-virtual-servers-capacity.aspx The 2011 budget proposal — the first the Obama administration can call its own — reinforced the administration's emphasis on gathering and communicating performance information to improve outcomes and strengthen problem-solving networks. http://gcn.com/articles/2010/02/15/editors-desk-new-it-agenda.aspx Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:07:55 GMT hkuldell@1105media.com (hkuldell) http://gcn.com/articles/2010/02/15/editors-desk-new-it-agenda.aspx The Army plans to use software from IFS North America for the Logistics Modernization Program underway at all Army arsenals, depots and ammunition plants. http://gcn.com/articles/2010/02/09/army-logistics-modernization.aspx Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:05:22 GMT hkuldell@1105media.com (hkuldell) http://gcn.com/articles/2010/02/09/army-logistics-modernization.aspx The second draft of a Smart Grid security architecture expands on the earlier version released in September, with expanded sections on privacy, vulnerability categories, potential security issues, and an overall approach to Smart Grid cyber security. http://gcn.com/articles/2010/02/04/nist-smart-grid-strategy-020410.aspx Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:00:00 GMT bjackson@1105media.com (bjackson) http://gcn.com/articles/2010/02/04/nist-smart-grid-strategy-020410.aspx Government agencies dependent on multiple networks to separate sensitive information are likely benefit from a new alliance between Dell and Integrity Global Security. http://gcn.com/articles/2010/02/03/dell-alliance-network-security.aspx Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:21:11 GMT wkash@1105media.com (wkash) http://gcn.com/articles/2010/02/03/dell-alliance-network-security.aspx Dennis Wisnosky, chief technology officer of the Defense Department's Business Transformation Agency, discusses the evolution of Primitives as a way to develop a common language for system architectures. http://gcn.com/articles/2010/02/01/primitives-dennis-wisnosky.aspx Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:54:06 GMT mprotos@1105media.com (mprotos) http://gcn.com/articles/2010/02/01/primitives-dennis-wisnosky.aspx The Defense Department's diversity remains its Achilles' heel in the race to improve information assurance. http://gcn.com/articles/2010/01/27/cover-story-long-cyber-march.aspx Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:42:47 GMT hkuldell@1105media.com (hkuldell) http://gcn.com/articles/2010/01/27/cover-story-long-cyber-march.aspx President Obama's meeting with leading technology executives reaffirmed the importance of tackling challenges in smaller chunks, holding leaders accountable, while still respecting regard for privacy, writes Robert Holleyman, CEO of Business Software Alliance. http://gcn.com/articles/2010/01/22/private-sector-lessons-in-modernizing-government.aspx Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:00:00 GMT wkash@1105media.com (wkash) http://gcn.com/articles/2010/01/22/private-sector-lessons-in-modernizing-government.aspx ProjectForge is helping DOD agencies adopt best practices for cloud computing. http://gcn.com/articles/2010/01/13/disa-projectforge-collaboration.aspx Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:02:55 GMT hkuldell@1105media.com (hkuldell) http://gcn.com/articles/2010/01/13/disa-projectforge-collaboration.aspx Implementation of a Defense Department-wide virtual directory, already some 4 million listings strong, requires unity of effort across DOD. http://gcn.com/articles/2010/01/11/web-joint-enterprise-directory-service-dod.aspx Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:00:00 GMT nwillis@1105media.com (nwillis) http://gcn.com/articles/2010/01/11/web-joint-enterprise-directory-service-dod.aspx The defense agency also expects its Rapid Access Computing Environment to be available for Secret IP Router Network application development as early as this spring. http://gcn.com/articles/2010/01/08/disa--to-further-integrate-enterprise-infrastructure-and-it-services_3.aspx Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:22:22 GMT thuck@1105media.com (thuck) http://gcn.com/articles/2010/01/08/disa--to-further-integrate-enterprise-infrastructure-and-it-services_3.aspx According to J. Greg Hanson, the doomsday scenario of the Y2K bug never played out, thanks to many technology and business professionals who worked hard to make it a non-event. But while the predicted disaster wasn't significant, the effort to avert it certainly was, and we have been reaping the benefits ever since. http://gcn.com/articles/2009/12/23/y2k-ten-years-later.aspx Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:47:47 GMT smiller@1105media.com (smiller) http://gcn.com/articles/2009/12/23/y2k-ten-years-later.aspx When its old DNS-DHCP solution reached its end of life, Idaho’s largest university went shopping for more functionality and ease of management for its large, complex network. http://gcn.com/articles/2009/12/14/boise-state-dns-management.aspx Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:04:26 GMT mprotos@1105media.com (mprotos) http://gcn.com/articles/2009/12/14/boise-state-dns-management.aspx