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• Red Hat's OpenShift PaaS goes live

  After two years of beta testing, the Red Hat OpenShift Online platform as a service (PaaS) has been pressed into commercial use, charging customers and offering professional commercial support.

• Red Hat packages newer versions of Ruby, Python

  Red Hat has put out a beta release of Software Collections 1.0, in a bid to let developers use newer versions of languages such as Ruby and Python with support.

• Red Hat, Hortonworks prep OpenStack for Hadoop

  Merging the worlds of big data and cloud computing, Red Hat, Hortonworks and Hadoop integrator Mirantis are jointly building a software program, called Savanna, that will make it easier to deploy Apache Hadoop on an OpenStack cloud service.

• Red Hat releases community OpenStack distribution

  Red Hat has launched a community version of its still-in-development OpenStack distribution, and it also released a preview of the enterprise edition of this distribution for those who sign up for an early adopter program.

• Red Hat Advances Enterprise OpenStack Distro to Early Adopter Program

  Red Hat Distribution for OpenStack, or RDO, is designed to provide a place for the community to add upstream features to Red Hat's enterprise OpenStack distribution, similar to the role the open source Fedora Project plays for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

• OpenStack gains momentum as vendors give Grizzly a bear hug

  HP, NetApp, and an array of cloud startups roll out new cloud offerings built around OpenStack Grizzly

• OpenStack grows up: But is it grown up enough for enterprise IT?

  Less than a year ago the cool thing for IT vendors to do was jump on the OpenStack bandwagon.

• Red Hat JBoss Data Grid now spans data centers

  Red Hat has revised its JBoss Data Grid software package, which now offers the ability to replicate copies of data across different data centers, and also comes with a number of other new features that can limit downtime.

• Google-led group warns of 'patent privateers'

  Patent trolls are increasingly becoming a weapon some companies can use to harm or harass their competitors, according to public comments jointly submitted today to the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department by lawyers for Google, Red Hat, BlackBerry and EarthLink.

• Wall Street Beat: As markets rise, guarded optimism for IT

  Though IT trailed other sectors as market indices rose to milestone highs this quarter, some bright spots in earnings and market research reports this week indicate continuing confidence that things will go better for tech this year than in 2012.

• Red Hat, Rackspace win early dismissal of Uniloc patent suit

  Red Hat and Rackspace have won an early dismissal of a patent infringement claim brought by Uniloc, in a decision the companies are hailing as a potential landmark in intellectual property law.

• Red Hat rolls FuseSource middleware into JBoss stack

  Expanding its stack of enterprise ready open source middleware, Red Hat has integrated key software from its acquisition of FuseSource last September.

• Red Hat doubles down on Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

  In the cloud world of the future, some companies will want public Cloud resources while others will want private Clouds on their own premises, says Ashesh Badani, general manager of Red Hat's cloud business unit. That's why Red Hat has a cloud strategy that incorporates both public and private platform as a service (PaaS) Clouds, and it has big plans for those products this year.

• PaaS Primer: What is platform as a service and why does it matter?

  Even most non-techies probably have an idea of what cloud computing is by now, but when you start getting into IaaS vs. SaaS vs. PaaS even those of us in the industry can struggle.

• Hypervisor startup is virtualizing virtualization

  Startup Ravello Systems launched a hypervisor this week that sits on top of other hypervisors.