On Monday August 21, a total solar eclipse will travel across the United States starting in the Northwest and ending in the Southeast. In many ways, this eclipse is a lot like our upcoming SUSECON, and luckily I am here to provide these very relevant and interesting parallels: It’s very important to have the right […]

SUSE is pleased to announce that iTernity Compliant Archive Software (iCAS) is fully certified with SUSE Enterprise Storage 4. iTernity and SUSE have partnered to provide a software-defined archive storage architecture that meets regulatory requirements and the need for cost effective solutions. iCAS deployed with SUSE Enterprise Storage as the back-end archival storage solution enables businesses […]

In case you missed it, SUSE is making a bit of noise recently in the OpenStack world. Last month we released SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 based on the upstream Newton release. It now includes Kubernetes as a Service for container orchestration, non-disruptive upgrade capabilities and support for unified storage by integrating the OpenStack shared file […]

On Thursday March 31st at their inaugural Cloud Day in San Francisco, Intel re-launched and expanded their Cloud Builders program, with SUSE as one of the initial members of the ecosystem. The announcement is part of Intel’s ‘Cloud for All’ initiative, which aims to develop industry-wide standards for easy-to-deploy cloud technology and to encourage the […]

Anyone who has been paying attention over the last 10 years has observed that the pace of technology innovation is accelerating. Just try and keep up with your kids’ communication preferences. It’s not just Facebook anymore (that’s for old people), but apps like Snapchat, Instagram, Vine and Pinterest. In the world of enterprise technology, I was […]

Immersed in the technology world, we tend to think of networking as linking machines, especially computers, to operate interactively. Before there were computers though, we might have said that networking refers to how people come together intelligently to get things done. In our hyper-connected world, open source software development is an excellent example of the […]

OpenStack’s popularity has exploded in recent years resulting in a lot more people on the OpenStack bandwagon than there were only a few short months ago. So at SUSE we’ve designed a quiz to separate the shakers from the fakers – The OpenStack Challenge. If you want to test your OpenStack IQ, take the quiz […]

OpenStack provides a number of great benefits for customers looking to stand up an open and agile cloud environment. SUSE OpenStack Cloud is an enterprise OpenStack distribution that rapidly deploys and easily manages highly available, mixed hypervisor IaaS Clouds. SUSE works with technology partners that provide additional value around performance, provisioning and cost of deploying […]

I learned about Ravello Systems in at an event last month in San Francisco. The technology sounded intriguing, and part that really caught me was “we enable customers to run OpenStack in the public cloud.” It took me a while to wrap my head around that, but the more I learned, the clearer it became. […]

2014 appears to be another inflection point in the evolution of IT. Today’s connected business will leverage mobile-first and API-first designs, big data analytics, improved online store experiences, agile development and operations, open source technologies, and IaaS and PaaS cloud-based services. For those businesses that can effectively take advantage of these new IT strategies the […]

On Monday, SUSE big data partner WANdisco announced the latest release of their Hadoop distribution, WANdisco Distro (WDD) version 3.1.1, powered by Apache Hadoop 2, which includes an enhanced, more intuitive user interface that simplifies Hadoop cluster deployment. WDD 3.1.1 is supported on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2. WANdisco holds a unique […]