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Computer outage strikes state government throughout Montana . Restored on Tuesday

Computer systems across much of state government went down on Monday, leaving consumers unable to renew drivers’ licenses or get online fishing permits.

The computer system was still offline Monday, although some key systems used by the Montana Highway Patrol and others were working again, the governor’s office said.

Dawn Pizzini, with the Information Technology Services Division, said workers first realized there was a problem at around 1:30 a.m. Monday. All access to the state server was down.
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The cause of the problem was not immediately clear.

By MATT GOURAS of the Associated Press

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/articles/2006/05/22/bnews/br55.txt

Montana re-ups NIC for portal services http://www.matr.net/article-19436.html

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State IT failures are not inevitable
Gartner analyst says there is a lot working against them

Joe Vanden Plas •

Are state government information technology consolidation projects bound to be expensive, problematic, and time-consuming?

Matt Miszewski, the CIO for the State of Wisconsin, has indicated the problems Wisconsin is having with IT consolidation are not unusual for large state projects. He has plenty of support on that point, especially from other government CIOs, but are cost overruns, implementation delays, and outright failures really inevitable?

Christopher Baum, a research vice president for Gartner, Inc., a Stamford, Conn.-based information technology and research analysis firm, recently provided an outside perspective on state government IT consolidation. Baum is a big believer that little in life is inevitable, but he also knows there are a lot of factors working against such large-scale projects. He said most state government projects run into trouble for six reasons:

Full Story: http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=2989

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State computer system restored

Posted on May 23
By MATT GOURAS of the Associated Press

HELENA – The state’s computer system was restored Tuesday, a day after a major piece of network equipment failed, causing it to shut down.

The state Information Technology Services Division said much of the computer system was working by 10 p.m. Monday. Everything was working normally by 2 a.m. Tuesday.

"Everything is up and functioning," said Dawn Pizzini of the Information Technology Services Division. "Business as usual has been restored."

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/articles/2006/05/23/bnews/br46.txt

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