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• 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+.

• 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

• Houston, we have an IT governance problem

  By Harvey Okin | 18 April, 2012 04:49

  "Houston, we've had a problem." With these understated words, Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert announced a crisis whose resolution would become a signature example of how to manage on-the-fly. But it also demonstrated how better advance planning and coordination among the space program's contractors and NASA could have averted many of the ensuing difficulties the space crew faced.

• How to implement next-generation storage infrastructure for Big Data

  By Thor Olavsrud | 17 April, 2012 09:50

  Everyone is talking about Big Data analytics and associated business intelligence marvels these days, but before organisations will be able to leverage the data, they'll have to figure out how to store it. Managing larger data stores--at the petabyte scale and larger--is fundamentally different from managing traditional large-scale data sets. Just ask Shutterfly.

• NASA looks Into satellites to beam solar power directly to Earth

  By Kevin Lee | 13 April, 2012 05:05

  There have been some incredible advances in solar power technology over the years, ranging from simple solar panels to solar-thermal power and more efficient panels. But NASA scientists believe the next step in maximizing sun-based energy will come from satellites that would beam harvested solar power down to Earth.

• 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 development finds big growing pains

  By Brandon Butler | 06 April, 2012 08:32

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

• 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.