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The Internal Revenue Service's Active Directory has too many forests, says the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. In addition, network scans show that 727 Windows servers and 238 Read more...

Department of Navy computer users who primarily use software office applications are prime candidates for thin- or zero- client computing, DON Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen said during an Read more...

The Army has migrated 87,895 email users--about 9 percent of its total--to a Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) email client hosted by the Defense Information Systems Agency, but the process is currently Read more...

Federal officials often say government should run more like a business--but they rarely specify which one, especially one that the federal official in question admires for its Borg-like efficiency in Read more...

The Labor Department released a May 26 request for information soliciting industry feedback over a planned migration by the department of its 21,469 email users into a cloud system. Email is one of Read more...

A private cloud hosted at four data centers could soon be the Veterans Affairs Department backroom architecture for its existing Blackberry, Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint services, including Read more...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) won a legal round Jan. 4 in its protest against an Interior Department decision to award Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) a $49.3 million contract for messaging and collaboration Read more...

Much of the $4 billion the federal government putatively spends on network and information technology research annually in fact goes to other purposes such as mere IT infrastructure support for other Read more...

Another day, and another federal agency announces a move of its email and messaging services to "the cloud." In this case, it's the Agriculture Department, which said Dec. 8 that it awarded a Read more...

The General Services Administration will move its email system to a Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) cloud-based service, the agency said Dec. 1 when it announced a $6.7 million task order deal with Unisys to Read more...