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- IRS CIO holds out hope for modernization by holding onto COBOL systems
- 20 years and $5 billion later, the IRS is still unable to upgrade its computer system and continues to use mainframes running assembly code written in the 1960s, CNET News.com reports. The IRS long-term goal is to run its operations with the efficiency Americans expect of banks and...
- Tags: IT Management, IRS, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Feds get C- security grade but Defense fails, DHS gets a D
- The conventional wisdom is that the federal government deserves failing grades for computer security. After all, the big VA breach of a year ago has been followed by many more stories of agencies losing computers, suffering data breaches and failing to encrypt sensitive data. Today a House committee handed out...
- Tags: Congress, Security, IT Management, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Motor vehicles system failure just the latest in string of CO snafus
- Colorados new, $13.2 million motor vehicles computer system isnt looking so snazzy now that residents are finding their cars improperly impounded. Officials have shut down the system as they try to fix the bug, The Denver Post reports. "When we start to hear from folks that their...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, IT Management, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Why does government hatch so many bad tech ideas?
- BBC Click reporter Chris Long offers a rant about government-initiated projects that DOA dumb on arrival. He offers a few examples from the UK, many of which have parallels in America. A national health database took too long to load, so now one shift leader logs on from...
- Tags: Government technology, IT Management, International
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- WI dumps two big IT projects within a month
- Wisconsin has scrapped two major computer systems in the last month, most recently a $28 million sales-tax tracking system, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Deputy Revenue Secretary Laura Engan defended the move. "We inherited a really not-great system from the prior administration. . . . Weve managed...
- Tags: Government technology, IT Management, State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- After 10 years, MN's CriMNet looks like an 'expensive paperweight'
- Ten years - and $200 million - ago Minnesota started a comprehensive law enforcement technology program called CriMNet, which was to give judges and police immediate access to information from the criminal justice system. But the system is still not complete, filled with glitches and and, some say, far from...
- Tags: Law enforcement, State &, Local Govt, IT Management, Government technology, CriMNet vision, CriMNet
- Blog posts 2006-12-29
- VA agencies skewered over weak security measures
- The majority of Virginia government agencies are doing an unacceptable job of protecting the huge amounts of sensitive information entrusted to them, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports on a state report. Of 104 state agencies surveyed, 80 percent had inadequate security programs, the report said. "There are significant risks...
- Tags: Social Security, J. Kucharski, security, Virginia Information Technologies Agency, agency
- Blog posts 2006-12-13
- What's wrong with fed IT? Lack of training
- What exactly is the problem with government IT? Why are so many millions of dollars wasted? Why do so many projects fail to see the light of day? The answer: inadequate training of federal project managers, according to a survey of 104 federal IT leaders conducted by Price...
- Tags: training, baseline, IT Management, Government technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-07
- Agencies fail to comply with FISMA
- Federal agencies are failing to test their IT security controls consistently, a new General Accounting Office report has found, Government Accounting News reports. “Federal agencies have not adequately designed and effectively implemented policies for periodically testing and evaluating information security controls,” the GAO concluded after surveying 24 major agencies...
- Tags: agency, FISMA, General Accounting Office
- Blog posts 2006-11-20
- Remote access scares fed IT officials
- What keeps you awake at night? If youre a federal technology leader, your biggest nightmare is about providing remote access to telecommuters, according to a survey of fedtech officials, reports the Washington Posts Stephen Barr. The survey was conducted in August, at the end of the summer of laptop...
- Tags: survey, agency, Government technology, IT Management, telecommuting
- Blog posts 2006-11-17
Additional Resources
- End-to-end encryption is the key to protecting data and reputations
- In order to avoid the financial and brand damage associated with data breaches, businesses need to consider deploying end-to-end encryption as a tamper proof way of securing data. Commentary - Media outlets around the globe highlight new data breaches at an alarmingly regular rate. Forrester estimates that the cost...
- Tags: PCI, Organization, Data Breach, PCI DSS, Encryption Key, encryption, security, Paul Meadowcroft Thales, Special to ZDNet, Paul Meadowcroft, Thales, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2009-11-11
- It's a girl! (or Ed Tech, 6 years hence)
- Regular readers and followers of my Twitter feed will know that yesterday was pretty eventful. My wife and I (well, mostly my wife, but I did make some moderate contribution) had a baby girl who currently remains nameless (we're leaning toward Penelope, but she was delivered by c-section so...
- Tags: Web Application, Social Media, E-books, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Personal Technology, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- My Top Scary Technology Trends
- The Most Terrifying:Google.Kills good companies by handing out "freebies". VERY scary.Machines replacing humansI thought they were tools to enhance our experience on earth.The worst is when customer is an AI telephone. "I'm sorry, could you repeat your last phrase. I did not understand". I thought the buttons were bad enough.RE:...
- Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, Google Inc., hardware, virtualization
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- Open source scores small victory at White House
- Open source scored a victory at the White House this week with the government's choice to switch to Drupal for whitehouse.gov. The U.S. government's technology team announced that it had selected the open source content management system to make http://www.whitehouse.gov more transparent to consumers and developers. ...
- Tags: White House, Government, Open Source, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- MSFT versus GOOG - there's a big gap
- Countering Google[i]At the current rate of Google?s revenue growth, 7 per cent, it would take it more than 3 years to reach Microsoft?s current quarterly revenue.[/i]The above is true if you assume MS will have no growth over the next 3 years. I don't think that will be the case....
- Tags: Web browsers, Operational accounting, Strategy, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- Welcome Doug Hanchard, our new government blogger
- I'd like to welcome Doug Hanchard, our new government blogger, to the ZDNet network. Doug is principal of Rapid Response Consulting and is an IT veteran with knowledge of government IT issues. He will be examining the intersection of IT and government, one of the few...
- Tags: Information Technology, Hot Button, Blogger, Doug, Government, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- With AppSense, making sense of managing the virtual desktop user experience
- As more enterprises turn to virtual desktop infrastructure to save money and leverage the infrastructure they already have, managing the user experience has become critical. But how do you maintain standardization across large organizations while keeping the user happy at each log on? AppSense...
- Tags: AppSense, Virtual Desktop, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- Net Neutrality vs. "do no evil"
- 6 of onehalf dozen of another. Like all extremists you paint a nice picture from one perspective. All these internet companies are so innocent and all they want is a fair shake . . . yeah right. In order to maximize profits, they purposely underbuilt their networks. They advertize high...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Regulations, regulation, Videotron, network, Internet Service Provider, Net Neutrality, Bush
- Discussion threads 2009-10-03
- Annual cost of IT failure: $6.2 trillion
- I'm not buying their claims.. It looks like they're declaring all IT activities as a failure which is patently ridiculous.. The companies I support rarely experience a failure. I do the product evaluations up front and determine if a product is worthy of purchase and deployment. I use...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, software, CPU, information technology, IT Failure
- Discussion threads 2009-09-30
- Xerox buys ACS; Makes its big services bet
- Updated: Xerox said Monday it will buy Affiliated Computer Services in a cash and stock deal valued at $6.4 billion. The move is a big bet to transform Xerox into a services company that does everything from collecting tolls and installing government systems to retooling business processes and information technology...
- Tags: Xerox Corp., ACS, Chances, Document Management, Operational Planning, Managerial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Managed Hosting, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
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