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National Medal of Technology and Innovation winners named

08/27/08 -- 11:18 AM The recipients, who include eBay and the developer of packet technology, will be recognized at the White House Sept. 29.

Tech flaws hobble watch list

08/26/08 -- 03:33 PM House investigation raises concerns about the design — and future — of an upgrade to the government’s terrorist watch list database.

A better way for SOA?

08/25/08; Vol. 27, No. 21 Quick: Guess which messaging protocol is best suited for large-scale cloud computing services.

12 principles of knowledge management

08/20/08 -- 02:18 PM The Army’s chief information officer, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson, presented 12 principles of knowledge management at the LandWarNet conference.

Ten rules for enterprise focus

08/20/08 -- 02:13 PM Army Chief Information Officer/G6, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson offer 10 rules for taking an enterprisewide approach.

Access control in two parts

08/18/08; Vol. 27, No. 20 Digitus Biometrics' MSN6100 devices have some unique features that add extra layers of security and harden them against hacker attacks.

Paul Scheihing | DOE wants more of less

08/18/08; Vol. 27, No. 20 The technology manager of the Energy Department’s Industrial Technologies Program discusses the government’s current and future energy-saving plans.

Tadpole servers save space, energy

08/13/08 -- 01:00 PM Tadpole VM2000 portable server is geared toward computational and memory-intensive network server operations; Tadpole VR2000 rack-mount server is designed to support virtualization and streamlined provisioning of server-based applications and services.

ClearCube's virtual desktop suite

08/12/08 -- 02:14 PM ClearCube Technology has unveiled a virtual platform that manages multiple desktops from a PC blade infrastructure.

GCN Lab Review: Dell OptiPlex 755

08/04/08; Vol. 27, No. 19 The OptiPlex 755 minitower from Dell is well put together, for a good price. Although it offers a lot in its standard configuration, there are few slots remaining for expansion.

GCN Lab Review: Acer Veriton M460

08/04/08; Vol. 27, No. 19 The Veriton M460 from Acer is a desktop computer with few extra features, but it also has the most upgrade potential in most areas.

GCN Lab Review: Lenovo ThinkStation S10

08/04/08; Vol. 27, No. 19 The ThinkStation S10 from Lenovo is a powerful workhorse at a good government price. Getting inside to the components is difficult, but once you are there, you will find lots of room to expand.

GCN Lab Review: Apple iMac

08/04/08; Vol. 27, No. 19 The iMac from Apple is an all-in-one system that has a very good ergonomic feel. However, like iMacs of the past, there are few upgrade opportunities.

Leaders of the middle of the pack

08/04/08; Vol. 27, No. 19 The GCN Lab tests four desktop PCs priced at $1,500 or less for their power, performance, features and upgradability.

Data center cooling

07/30/08 -- 03:59 PM Emerson Network Power has unveiled the Liebert Challenger ITR, a compact cooling system for high-density computing environments.

VMware offers ESXi hypervisor

07/29/08 -- 11:14 AM VMware offers free downloads of its ESXi hypervisor virtualization platform at its Web site.

NSF awards grant for energy-efficient computing study

07/29/08 -- 11:04 AM The National Science Foundation is providing $2 million to the University of California, San Diego to test computing systems’ energy efficiency in real-world conditions.

The numerator: SOA everywhere

07/28/08; Vol. 27, No. 18 Service-oriented architecture hits the mainstream, according to a recent survey.

LaCie's powerful d2 Quadra hard disk

07/28/08 -- 01:28 PM GCN Lab Review: The LaCie d2 Quadra earns “la A” from GCN, with its hard disk offering innovative design, strong performance, PC/Mac compatibility and backup software for about $350.

Garth Gibson | Faster storage systems through parallelism

07/28/08; Vol. 27, No. 18 GCN Interview: Garth Gibson, one of the inventors of the RAID storage system discusses the development of the Parallel Network File System protocol, an effort to standardize parallel operations.

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