United States : Texas withdraws voter registration systems from IBM contract.Byline: Mamta03 New Intel suit could open doors for rivals AT&T's lawsuit lawsuit: see procedure; tort. over Verizon ads could backfire, some argue Microsoft preps SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. for battle in two enterprise arenas Three-year-old Office patch stymies most attacks Mozilla plans Firefox interface overhaul Cisco results top estimates Computerworld - The Texas Secretary of State's office has pulled its voter registration Voter registration is the requirement in some democracies for citizens to check in with some central registry before being allowed to vote in elections. An effort to get people to register is known as a voter registration drive. Centralized/compulsory vs. systems out of an ongoing $863 million data center consolidation project being handled by IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) because of data security and disaster recoverability fears. The decision was prompted by an incident in August when a server being managed by IBM crashed resulting in a 13-day outage out·age n. 1. A quantity or portion of something lacking after delivery or storage. 2. A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electric power. of the office's business records filing system, a report in the Austin American Statesman said today. The incident exposed "weaknesses" in IBM's ability to recover lost data a spokesman from the Secretary of State's office is quoted as saying. It prompted awareness of how a similar failure of the agency's statewide voter registration system at election time would have jeopardized the ability of counties in Texas to verify new voters as mandated under federal law. As a result of the concerns expressed by the Secretary of State's office, Texas Governor Rick Perry James Richard Perry (b. March 4, 1950) is a Republican politician and the Governor of Texas. He assumed office in December 2000 when then-Governor George W. Bush resigned to prepare for his inauguration as President of the United States. Gov. and the state's Department of Information Resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. , which is overseeing the IBM contract, gave permission for the agency to withdraw its election systems from the contract, the newspaper said. Following its withdrawal from the IBM project, the agency will set up its own data center with two separate back-up locations. An official description of the work that IBM was performing for the Secretary of State's office shows that the project started in November 2004 and was supposed to have been completed by January 2006. Under the contract, IBM was supposed to have helped Texas build a statewide voter registration system that would be complaint with Help America Vote Act The Help America Vote Act (HAVA, Pub.L. 107-252) is a United States federal law passed the House 357-48 and 92-2 in the Senate[1] and was signed into law by President Bush on October 29, 2002. standards. The new system known as the Texas Election Administration Management, or TEAM, system will replace the existing Texas Voter Registration System. This is not the first time that IBM has run into problems over its handling of the seven-year contract under which it is merging the separate data centers of 27 Texas state agencies into two facilities. Copyright : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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