Red Hat News & Articles

One final acquisition for the year -- open source cloud management vendor, Red Hat has announced that it has agreed to buy enterprise cloud management vendor ManageIQ for US$ 104 million in cash. It has also announced a hike in revenues of 18 percent in Q3.

There have been numerous reports over the years on how cloud computing has developed, how businesses are taking to it, and how it is being used in the home. However, little enough research has been done to assess what vendors think about it. A new report aims to remedy that.

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Storage management solutions vendor Symantec Corp. is partnering with open source software provider Red Hat, Inc. to jointly offer private and hybrid cloud applications and datacenter solutions. The new solutions will feature Symantec storage and availability tools running on the open source Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform.

Red Hat has been pumping out new releases this month, but I suppose you don’t become the first open source vendor to reach a billion dollars in annual revenue by slacking. Last week Red Hat rolled out two new releases, a brand new in-memory database and changes to its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, OpenShift. The week is just beginning and it has already announced new versions of three products.

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The G-Cloud framework is a procurement initiative projected to save the UK government £ 120 million by 2014. Developed in only four weeks, the CloudStore offers more than 1,700 cloud-based products and services from more than 250 vendors.

Jaspersoft announced that its business intelligence (BI) software will be integrated with Red Hat's OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).

Cloud adoption and open source were just a few years ago considered risky, cutting-edge approaches only pursued by the most confident (or poor) of technology departments. Times have changed. Even the federal government -- definitely not known for its propensity to be early adopters -- has embraced both. Despite the growth in adoption and acceptance, the intersection of cloud and open source still has a quite a bit of maturing to do, and from the looks of things, some of that growing up might be quite a battle.

Jaspersoft BI Suite, a commercial open source data-to-dashboards solution, now combines Red Hat's data virtualization technology with Jaspersoft's analysis and dashboarding services.

It’s been a busy month in the cloud. PHP Fog has announced the general availability of its PHP PaaS joining Red Hat’s OpenShift multi-language PaaS announcement.

eXo (news, site), well-known for its Java portal and user experience technologies, has announced it is adding Ruby and Git to its eXo Cloud IDE. The inclusion of Git will enable direct deployment to Red Hat's new OpenShift platform-as-a-service (PaaS).

Red Hat (news, site) has been focusing its efforts on supporting enterprises and service providers that use Red Hat software for building and managing cloud networks. With Red Hat's recent acquisition of Makara, the company now has the capability to act as a cloud service provider, and is set to make an announcement at the upcoming Red Hat Summit.

Earlier on this week we took a look at the recently released Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals from Gartner (news, site). While there was considerable interest in the leaders, there were also a number of other companies including Open Text and Red Hat JBoss that made it onto the list for other reasons.

There's a lot of activity in the open source portal space lately. Today eXo (news, site) released eXo Platform 3.0, the latest version of their Java-based enterprise portal offering. Let's take a look at what it has to offer.