This week in Technically News: Amazon Web Services Celebrates 8 Years in the Cloud; Your U.S. Government Uses Open Source Software, And Loves It; Is Data Center Consolidation Losing Steam; Why Cloud Computing Is Like Water

This week in Technically News: DHS Offers Incentive to Adopt Framework; Red Hat Answers Governments’ Open Source Questions; NetApp in the Cloud Age: CEO Tom Georgens Q&A; Symantec's Vision of Enterprise Security Rests Upon Collaboration, Sharing Data

This week in Technically Speaking: What IT Can Teach Utilities About Cybersecurity & Smart Grids; Open Source Benefits to Govt Outweigh Misconceptions, Report Says; 5 Ways to Keep large IT Projects From Tanking; Continuous Monitoring, Maintenance Needed to Maintain Cybersecurity; Improving Federal Cybersecurity Need Not Involve Congress.

Frequent Technically Speaking writer Matt Micene, Senior Systems Engineer for DLT, was recently interviewed by FedScoop on the government's adoption of open source technologies.

In this week's Technically News: 11 Concerning Cybersecurity Stats About the Federal Government; A Few Places Where Government Tech Procurement Works; Why Public Sector Gets Technology Wrong; Agencies Widen Open-Source Use; Who's in Charge? Cybersecurity: State vs. Federal Roles.

This week in Technically News: The State Worker: Lessons from Ohio’s State Tech Project; States Test New Credentialing Approaches; Observations From This Year’s NSA Open Source Industry Day; GAO: Agencies Can’t Get FISMA Just Right; CIOs See Big Data as Internet-like Innovation Platform for Government; Could Agencies Avoid Disaster in a Nirvanix-like Cloud Shutdown?

It’s time we start treating our data with the same love and respect that geeks treat their code. It’s time that we begin treating data as open source, not simply as something to be published.

This week in Technically News: Symantec to Start Revoking Customer’s SSL Certificates by October 1; Oracle Launches Cloud Services Built for Government Agencies; Red Hat CIO Takes an Open-Source Approach to Security & BYOD; Are Federal IT Initiatives Strangling Agency Networks; 13 Cloud Computing Stats for CIOs; Cybersecurity Legislation: What’s Next.

This week in Technically News: Federal IT Efforts Slowed by Weak CIO Roles, Uneven Reporting; Cybersecurity: You Can't Firewall Human Nature; FBI Data Center Efficiency Program the Way of the Future; The Positive Side Effects of Data Center Consolidation; Red Hat Exec Debunks Open Source Myth.

This week in Technically News: One Small Step for NASA, One Giant Leap for Open Source; Chinese Hack Targets Weapons’ Designs; SolarWinds Raises Profile in Cloud-Based IT Management; 30 Years of Accumulation: A Timeline of Cloud Computing; Tracking the Evolution of Big Data: A Timeline.