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• Red Hat folds ManageIQ purchase into cloud control stack

  Bulking up on tools for managing hybrid clouds, Red Hat plans to fold the software it acquired last month in the ManageIQ purchase into its own CloudForms software.

• Startup takes aim at multi-hypervisor management

  An updated version of software from startup HotLink aims to ease the management of multi-hypervisor environments, as well as provision off-premises resources, like VMs from Amazon's cloud, all from VMware's vCenter management console.

• Vert.x app framework properties siezed by VMware

  Project leader Tim Fox left VMware for Red Hat and was told to hand over administrative rights associated with the technology; the companies are discussing a solution to the impasse

• GitHub growth points to open source's enterprise acceptance

  Every day 10,000 new users sign up for GitHub, an online repository for open source projects that already has 2.8 million members.

• Red Hat to acquire ManageIQ cloud software provider

  Enriching its portfolio of cloud management software, Red Hat is acquiring ManageIQ, a provider of software that helps organizations manage their virtual machines across public and private clouds.

• Consultancy launches DIY cloud, OpenStack-style

  Cloud consultancy Mirantis today released a series of support options to help customers launch test or full-scale deployments of OpenStack-powered clouds.

• Red Hat RHEV gets storage savvy

  Less than a year after a major update to its Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEL) package, Red Hat has upgraded the software to offer more advanced storage capabilities.

• What's Amazon's enterprise strategy for the cloud?

  Roaming the floor of Amazon Web Services' first user conference last week, it didn't look like a traditional tech show. Many of the 6,000 attendees were with startups or midsize businesses looking to learn more about AWS services or the public cloud.

• Red Hat rolls out private PaaS

  Red Hat is officially jumping into the cloud platform as a service (PaaS) market today.

• Fedora 18 finally makes beta

  After a number of delays, the beta of the Fedora 18 Linux-based distribution has been released.

• Gartner: Platform-as-a-Service market to see sharp growth

  The PaaS (platform as a service) market will grow to US$1.2 billion this year, up from last year's $900 million take, as vendors and customers seek easier ways to create new applications and customize existing ones, according analyst firm Gartner.

• Red Hat, Xen, Java, Cloudera prepped for 64-bit ARM

  There's been a lot of talk from hardware vendors about 64-bit ARM servers, but without software the fledgling platform won't get very far. Several big vendors made announcements this week that show software support is on its way.

• OpenFlow start-up Big Switch lands another big funding round

  OpenFlow controller start-up Big Switch Networks this week said it closed a $25 million Series B funding round to continue the expansion of the engineering, sales and marketing operations.

• US gov't agencies embrace collaborative software development

  U.S. government agencies have long used open-source software. Now, some agencies are embracing the collaborative development model of open-source software development and are releasing code back to the wider community.

• Cloud startup gets cues from Amazon, Google and OpenStack to drive private cloud

  OpenStack startup Cloudscaling says that for true interoperability in a hybrid cloud, it's not enough to just have API compatibility between your private and public cloud. It really helps for the fundamental architecture of the two to be analogous.