PaaS started out as a tool for developers. But on-premise commercial products like OpenShift Enterprise now make PaaS a valuable tool for many different roles within enterises. Joe Fernandes heads OpenShift product management at Red Hat. On this podcast, he shares what enterprise customers have been telling him about PaaS.

OpenShift Origin is the open source upstream for Red Hat's OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service offerings. Red Hat engineering director Matt Hicks talks about the tools and practices that let developers engage with OpenShift and how people can get involved.

The RSA Conference is the biggest security conference in the world and it's growing fast. Red Hat identity management product manager Ellen Newlands was there. She sat down with me to share what was hot out in San Francisco. In this podcast, we talk mobile, BYOD, cloud security, professional hackers, and security jobs.

Mark Bohannon is the VP for Global Public Policy and Government Affairs at Red Hat. In this podcast, he talks about how government attitudes toward open source have changed, the role of government in open source and open standards, and why governments are taking open approaches as they adopt cloud computing.

Redmonk's Donnie Berkholz has spent most of his career as a researcher in the biological sciences, where he did a huge amount of data analysis and visualization as well as scientific programming. Here he discusses the impact of Big Data, when you need models, and what we'll be saying about the whole space five years from now.

Redmonk co-founder Stephen O'Grady has a new book out, The New Kingmakers. It argues that developer influence has greatly increased because of open source and other reasons.

Deborah Salons is a Washington DC-based attorney whose practice has been practice has been melding into investigating issues in regards to cloud computing and information security as well as privacy issues. She talks about legal issues related to data, "big" and otherwise, and how concerns can be managed with the proper education and the proper teamwork between your legal counsel and your technology folks.

Platform-as-a-Service, PaaS, is often pushed as a solution for developers. It is that. But enterprise PaaS is equally appealing to system admins and enterprise architects.

Red Hat cloud security product manager Ellen Newlands discusses interoperability and cross-domain trust in heterogeneous hybrid cloud environments.

The Intel Developer Form, held the week of September 10 in San Francisco, is always a good opportunity to reflect on what's happening with hardware. That's what my fellow Red Hat Cloud Evangelist Richard Morrell and I do in this podcast.