Red Hat wants a piece of the enterprise mobile app market, so it has acquired Irish company FeedHenry for approximately $82 million.

The growing popularity of mobile devices has put pressure on enterprise IT departments to make existing apps available from smartphones and tablets — a trend that Red Hat is getting in on with the FeedHenry acquisition.

The mobile app segment is one of the fastest growing in the enterprise software market, and organizations are looking for better tools to build mobile applications that extend and enhance traditional enterprise applications, according to Red Hat.

“Mobile computing for the enterprise is different than Angry Birds. Enterprise mobile applications need a backend platform that enables the mobile user to access data, build backend logic, and access corporate APIs, all in a scalable, secure manner,” Craig Muzilla, senior vice president for Red Hat’s Application Platform Business, said in a blog post.

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