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• Big Blue morphes into huge cloud business by swapping CEO Rometty with cloud, Red Hat chiefs

  If anyone was still wondering how serious IBM is about being a major cloud player that question has been resoundly answered.

• IBM aims at hybrid cloud, enterprise security

  IBM Cloud Pak for Security features open-source Red Hat technology for hunting threats and automation to speed response to cyber attacks.

• IBM brings blockchain to Red Hat OpenShift; adds ApacheDB for hybrid cloud customers

  IBM continued its Red Hat and open source software integration work this week by adding Red Hat OpenShift support to its blockchain platform.

• Open source has never been stronger

  With cloud companies open-sourcing their innovations, and enterprises increasing participation, open source sustainability is at an all-time high.

• IBM fuses software with Red Hat to launch hybrid-cloud juggernaut

  IBM is starting a potentially huge run at hybrid cloud by tying more than 100 of its products to the Red Hat OpenShift platform.

• IBM closes Red Hat deal for $34 billion

  IBM has officially gobbled up Red Hat for $34 billion, a technology acquisition considered one of the largest in history.

• IBM ANZ chief: We're resetting relationships

  IBM is "resetting relationships" and changing the way it is "showing up" the company's Australia and New Zealand managing director David La Rose told an audience of customers in Sydney today.

• Ginni Rometty on the future of hybrid cloud, AI and IBM

  The next phase of the cloud landscape will be hybrid, driven by mission critical applications and underpinned by trust and responsible stewardship.

• IBM to snap up Red Hat for US$34 billion

  IBM says it has agreed to acquire U.S. software company Red Hat Inc for US$34 billion, including debt, as it seeks to diversify its technology hardware and consulting business into higher-margin products and services.

• SCO vs. IBM legal battle over Linux may – finally – be finished

  A breach-of-contract and copyright lawsuit filed nearly 13 years ago by a successor company to business Linux vendor Caldera International against IBM may be drawing to a close at last, after a U.S. District Court judge issued an order in favor of the latter company earlier this week.

• Red Hat readies OpenStack for the enterprise

  Red Hat has polished the open source OpenStack Cloud hosting software so that it can be more easily deployed within enterprises.

• JRuby upgrade promises better performance

  JRuby, a veteran among languages other than Java riding atop the JVM, will be upgraded Wednesday with the release of JRuby 9000.

• Bruised by past mistakes, tech firms brace for 'leap second'

  Just before the stroke of midnight Tuesday Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), computerized clocks around the world will pause for a moment to squeeze in an extra second.

• Red Hat builds on its open source storage portfolio

  Red Hat continues to make inroads into the enterprise storage software market, improving two of its core storage technologies and striking partnerships with key IT system resellers.

• Red Hat makes its case to be THE container company

  Looking to establish itself as the leader in the nascent container technology market, Red Hat has enabled one of its flagship products to support containers fully and released a new container management platform, too.