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• Red Hat to take on Microsoft with .NET hosted service

  Challenging Microsoft's Windows Azure on its own turf, Red Hat is ramping up services that would offer Microsoft .NET and SQL Server capabilities on its OpenShift platform as a service (PaaS).

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux now on Amazon's GovCloud

  RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) is now available on Amazon Web Services' GovCloud, an isolated part of Amazon's cloud designed for U.S. government agencies.

• Red Hat Extends JBoss with Open Source BPM

  Red Hat is extending JBoss up the middleware stack with a new business process management suite that gives organizations advanced decision and process automation capabilities.

• Red Hat polishes business process management suite

  Thanks to its 2012 acquisition of Polymita, Red Hat has added major functionality to its software suite for managing business processes, making the package an appealing choice in the enterprise market for BPM (business process management) software.

• MWC: Dell, Red Hat team up on network virtualization

  Dell is teaming up with Red Hat to drive its effort to be a force in the burgeoning area of network function virtualization (NFV) technology, aimed at helping carriers reduce costs and quickly roll out new services.

• Alcatel-Lucent works with Red Hat to virtualize mobile networks

  Alcatel-Lucent is betting big on operators wanting to virtualize their mobile networks using NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) technology, in order to become more nimble and less reliant on proprietary hardware.

• Red Hat and Hortonworks hook up for Hadoop

  Red Hat and Hortonworks have vowed to work together to make it easier to run Hortonwork's Hadoop Data Platform (HDP) with Red Hat's JBoss set of middleware, and other Red Hat enterprise software.

• Red Hat and Hortonworks Expand Strategic Big Data Alliance

  The two partners are working to make it easier than ever to bring Hadoop into the enterprise with an open hybrid cloud model and improved customer support collaboration.

• Docker challenges virtualization market with containers

  The open source Docker container technology is taking on the server virtualization market, offering what some see as a faster alternative to running full virtual machines over hypervisors.

• Red Hat brings SOA to the cloud

  Rounding out its set of software for connecting enterprise applications, Red Hat has released additional software for its JBoss Fuse enterprise service bus that provides the basis for building service-oriented architectures.

• Red Hat refreshes private Cloud stacks for the enterprise

  Red Hat has updated a number of its products for running private clouds, better preparing them for the complex ways of the enterprise.

• An OpenStack Primer for IT Executives

  OpenStack, the open source cloud computing platform, has garnered the support of more than 200 IT vendors. Enterprises embrace the platform for its flexible, hardware-agnostic architecture -- but they should realize that this modularity can come at a cost.

• Red Hat takes more active role in CentOS, funds developers

  Red Hat plans to take a greater role in the community developing CentOS, in the hope of attracting more paying customers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the distribution on which CentOS is based.

• Wall Street Beat: Economic growth, software news and BlackBerry deal boost tech stocks

  Tech stocks rose this week on the back of solid economic news and some upbeat results from software vendors, including Red Hat and Oracle.

• Dell and Red Hat team to sell enterprise OpenStack

  Dell will start selling systems early next year that run Red Hat's version of the OpenStack open-source cloud platform.