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Symantec software crashed military health database

Symantec\'s Veritas storage software had caused a shutdown of a military health database.

Federal News Network Staff

January 27, 2012 4:20 pm

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Symantec’s Veritas storage software had caused a shutdown of a military health database.

The Armed Forces clinical data repository crashed this week. It houses almost 10-million electronic records for military personnel and their families.

NextGov reports that DISA — which manages the system and repository —eventually had to take the system down to fix the issues. An older version of the software will be running until Symantec produces a patch.

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