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• Red Hat raids cloud storage market by acquiring Gluster

  Red Hat announced Tuesday that it is acquiring Gluster, which makes open-source software that clusters commodity SATA drives and NAS systems into massively scalable pools of storage, in a cash deal valued at about $136 million. Gluster is also a contributor to the OpenStack cloud project and Red Hat is promising this involvement will continue. Indeed, Red Hat is now uncharacteristically saying its support of OpenStack will grow even beyond Gluster to the next release of Fedora.

• 2010's IT Companies to Watch: Where are they now?

  Last year, Network World identified <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/102210-25-tech-startups.html?hpg1=bn">25 IT startups</a> poised to develop innovative technology for a new age of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2009/ndc3/051809-cloud-faq.html">cloud computing</a>, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/102510-burning-questions-virtualization-storage.html">virtualization</a> and mobility.

• Sprint cheers government move to halt AT&T-T-Mobile deal

  It's not often a company will cheer when the government directly intervenes in its industry, but things are different when you face potential oblivion without government action.

• Feds move to block AT&T-T-Mobile merger

  The U.S. Department of Justice Wednesday moved to block the proposed $39 billion merger between AT&amp;T and T-Mobile.

• HP's Apotheker changes his tune on mobility

  Six months after laying out his "strategic vision" for HP, CEO Leo Apotheker took the actions to realize it. And abandoned the mobile computing space.

• Motorola workers likely thrilled by Google's buy

  A recent survey suggests that a lot of Motorola Mobility employees will be thrilled at yesterday's news that their company is being <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/081511-google-buys-motorola-mobility-for.html">bought by Google</a>.

• Google looks to protect Android with Motorola patents

  Google is paying a premium for Motorola Mobility, the recently spun-off device maker from Motorola proper. But for the $12.5 billion it's paying, Google likely is more interested in Motorola's patents than its phones.

• Google lashes out at patent trolls with Motorola buy

  Google is apparently sick of being pushed around by patent attorneys from Microsoft and Apple.

• RIM job cuts renew takeover speculation

  The stock price for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion dropped $1.24 in heavy trading Monday, to $26.67, and even more after hours, to its lowest point in five years. That makes the stock a bargain for a buyer, but there's one problem with the renewed talk of a RIM takeover:

• AT&T pleads spectrum poverty, despite vast holdings

  The carrier with the most spectrum says that it doesn't have enough to build out a nationwide LTE network.

• Attachmate seals $2.2B Novell deal

  The Attachmate Group announced Wednesday that it has completed its $2.2 billion acquisition of Novell, a networking pioneer in the 1980s that’s now being described as “a leader in intelligent workload management” by its new owner.

• RIM boosts calendar capabilities with Tungle buy

  Research in Motion moved to boost its mobile devices' calendar capabilities by buying Tungle, an enterprise scheduling application developer, for an undisclosed sum.

• Is FCC 'taking a stand' on AT&T, T-Mobile deal?

  A perfunctory, noncommittal statement about <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/032011-att-tmobile-acquisition-pundits.html">AT&amp;T's proposed buyout of T-Mobile,</a> made by an anonymous FCC "official," is being widely interrupted by anyone with a computer keyboard as an official FCC <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/032511-att-tmobile-panned.html?hpg1=bn">position on the deal</a>.

• AT&T-T-Mobile merger widely panned

  The proposed AT&T-T-Mobile merger has many different groups standing athwart recent telecom history and yelling, "Stop!"

• Will AT&T's T-Mobile buy lead to a duopoly?

  AT&amp;T's announced acquisition of T-Mobile yesterday continues a decade-long trend of consolidation in the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/wireless.html">wireless</a> industry and raises questions about whether the industry will inevitably turn into a duopoly.