Stories about: DISA

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Pentagon backs off cloud availability claims 09 October, 2009 08:02

Days after claiming 99.999% availability for its new cloud computing service, a US Defense Department spokesman says he misspoke and meant to say the agency is achieving 99.99% availability instead.
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Pentagon: Our cloud is better than Google's 06 October, 2009 06:38

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.
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Open source, Web 2.0 gain appeal as IT budgets shrink 23 June, 2009 08:25

CPS Energy, the largest municipality-owned gas and electric company in America, needed to get a better grip on its budget and its budgeting process. Since CPS Energy was an enterprise SAP user, more SAP AG software was the obvious and lowest-risk way for CIO Christopher Barron to go.
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10 Twitter tips for the workplace 10 April, 2009 03:23

Having trouble convincing your boss that Twitter isn't a waste of time? Then you might find it interesting to learn that social media evangelists across the U.S. federal government are blasting out Tweets several times a day to their constituents. Here are their suggestions for how to integrate new media tools such as Twitter, Facebook and Flickr into a large, old-fashioned bureaucracy:
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Virtual servers not always safe 04 August, 2008 11:10

Many IT administrators out there thhttps://secure.idg.com.au/admin/index.php?jid=1&l=1ink that deploying virtual servers will make their VMs bulletproof to security vulnerabilities and malicious attacks. But according to virtualization security experts like Edward L. Haletky, IT managers will be surprised to learn at how much more they can to do protect their virtual infrastructure.
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Pentagon's IT unit seeks to adopt cloud computing 18 July, 2008 09:38

The US Defense Information Systems Agency, which provides most of the systems used within the Department of Defense, has been reaching out to a wide range of companies in the belief that their IT approaches -- including the use of cloud computing technologies -- could help DISA better support the military's warfighting men and women.
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Teen pushed adware to hundreds of thousands of PCs 19 February, 2008 08:00

A teenager identified by U.S. law enforcement officials only as B.D.H pleaded guilty last week to charges that he used botnets to illegally install adware on hundreds of thousands of computers in the U.S., including those belonging to the military.
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US government to insist PCs are secured 03 April, 2007 08:02

The U.S. federal government has launched a program that will require federal agencies to insist on security standards from suppliers, a move that some argue will have a far-reaching impact on most large and medium-sized organizations buying PCs.
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The best practices for network security in 2007 23 January, 2007 16:25

We all face it - the daily barrage of spam, now infested with zero-day malware attacks, not to mention the risks of malicious insiders, infected laptops coming and going behind our deep packet-inspecting firewalls and intrusion-prevention systems. Some even have to worry about how to prove steps of due care and due diligence towards a growing roster of regulatory compliance pressures.
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US defense department builds world's biggest SAN 13 September, 2006 08:13

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is creating the world's largest storage network by combining a number of separate networks into a gigantic 17,000-port Meta SAN monster.
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Government: Unlocking data, locking down access 29 August, 2006 09:40

The U.S. federal government is often seen as a laggard in IT, a bloated bureaucracy that runs well behind the innovations of private industry. But look closely and you'll find programs that are truly groundbreaking.