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Red Hat Adds Support for Google App Engine

Red Hat has announced that it now supports Google App Engine under its “bring your own subscription” plan. Red Hat allows organizations that already pay for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Cloud Computing Comes to the Mainframe

The IBM mainframe turns 50 years old this month, and as part of the celebration, IBM is introducing the IBM Enterprise Cloud System, which brings cloud computing to the mainframe

Hortonworks Updates Data Platform

Hortonworks has announced Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 2.1, the latest version of its Hadoop distribution. The update includes a number of noteworthy changes, including a Hive interactive query capability called

Tech Firms Debate the Definition of PaaS

At this week’s Cloud Connect Summit, a panel of experts from Microsoft, Red Hat, Blue Box and HP discussed cloud computing and the nature of platform as a service (PaaS)

Cloud Price War Continues: Azure Drops Prices

Last week, Google and Amazon announced price cuts for their cloud computing services. Now Microsoft is following suit and dropping the fees for Azure. Microsoft’s prices for compute services are