News

• NASA on 'brink of a new future' with SpaceX launch

  By Sharon Gaudin | 23 May, 2012 03:33

  The nation's space efforts entered a new chapter today with the launch of the first commercial vehicle to the International Space Station.

• NASA says no sensitive information breached in Unknowns hack

  By Jeremy Kirk | 04 May, 2012 12:23

  NASA acknowledged Friday an attack on one of its websites by "The Unknowns," a group that has been publicly trickling information on websites it has hacked over the last few weeks.

• In Pictures: The SpaceX blast into history

  By Michael Cooney | 04 May, 2012 08:46

  NASA watches as SpaceX gets set for first space shot

• Step aside Anonymous, here comes The Unknowns

  By Ellen Messmer | 04 May, 2012 05:46

  The latest shadowy hacker group to strike is calling itself The Unknowns, and they're bragging they've hacked NASA Glenn Research Center, the U.S. Air Force, the European Space Agency and others, posting some network-access details.

• Government moves to the cloud, slowly

  By Brandon Butler | 26 April, 2012 07:22

  A year and a half after the U.S. Office of Management and Budget declared a "cloud first" strategy requiring government organizations to at least consider cloud-based services when launching new applications and IT services, experts say the government is only moving slowly to the cloud, and it has a long way to go.

• When it comes to analyzing safety data, FAA might be in database hell

  By Michael Cooney | 26 April, 2012 06:28

  One of the most important functions of the Federal Aviation Administration is to gather, review and analyze all manner of aviation safety data to reactively and more to the future, proactively prevent accidents and manage safety risks.

• Help for the Help Desk

  By John Brandon | 24 April, 2012 00:24

  A help desk can be a real lifesaver for employees, not to mention a productivity boost. If a keyboard stops working or Outlook keeps crashing, a technician is just a phone call away. Even complex problems can usually be resolved internally, and relatively quickly, without the need for an outside vendor.

• How to brag online without appearing to brag

  By Paul McNamara | 23 April, 2012 14:36

  Last week I posted to Buzzblog a list of the 50 best "bragging rights" claimed by users of Google+.

• Greenpeace's sign to Amazon, Microsoft: 'How clean is your cloud?'

  By Brandon Butler | 20 April, 2012 05:36

  Activists at Greenpeace intensified their environmental criticism of Amazon and Microsoft today by posting signage near the Seattle offices of both companies questioning the cleanliness of the companies' clouds.

• In Pictures: NASA Space Shuttle Discovery’s spectacular final flight

  By Michael Cooney | 18 April, 2012 10:05

  One last hurrah – Shuttle Discovery flies piggy-back to Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, Udvar-Hazy Center

• NASA announces Open Government Plan 2.0

  By Jon Gold | 11 April, 2012 04:29

  The use of open-source ideals -- both inside and outside of the software realm -- is at the heart of the latest version of NASA's Open Government Plan, which was announced Tuesday in an official blog post.

• OpenStack unlocks IaaS

  By Christine Burns | 09 April, 2012 14:30

  Infrastructure-as-a-service is gaining traction in the enterprise with customers lauding the flexibility that it delivers. However, there is still that nagging concern about vendor lock-in.

• OpenStack development finds big growing pains

  By Brandon Butler | 06 April, 2012 08:32

  It's been an interesting past few weeks for OpenStack.

• Report: IBM, Red Hat to join OpenStack

  By Brandon Butler | 06 April, 2012 08:32

  IBM and Red Hat could soon be joining the ranks of OpenStack supporters, giving the open source Cloud project a big boost.

• Federal IT pros look at BYOD security, management concerns

  By Ellen Messmer | 06 April, 2012 07:28

  WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Like their counterparts in the private sector, information technology managers in the federal government are actively debating whether their agencies should move to a "bring your own device" (BYOD) policy, allowing employee-owned mobile smartphones and tablets devices to be used for work.