Closing the Leap Gap

Tim Irnich, Developer Community Architect at SUSE, coauthored this post.  Today the openSUSE project announced the start of the public beta phase for openSUSE Leap 15.3. This release is an important milestone for openSUSE and SUSE, our users and customers: Leap 15.3 is the first release where openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise share the […]

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OpenStack It Is!

This week has seen Red Hat Summit in Boston, and one message coming out of that loud and clear is a strong validation of OpenStack as the “Linux of Cloud“. We are excited to see Red Hat follow our direction and join the OpenStack bandwaggon.  As in many other areas our engineers and theirs will […]

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The demise of the operating system. Film at 11.

A couple of weeks ago a colleague mused whether “hardware will become the roadkill of cloud computing” and came to the following conclusion:

“…Successful cloud service providers must offer state-of-the-art cloud-based services. And that requires state-of-the-art hardware, virtualization and security-processing technologies to handle the demands of increasingly intelligent workloads.”

And I agree. Except that he totally missed one key component, an absolute necessity to deliver a cloud story, a datacenter, or any sort of computing for that matter. Can you tell what that is?

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ext4: Still Not There Yet – And Not Worth It Anyway

When reading Ext4 Within Striking Distance of XFS the other day, I could not help virtually patting Matthias Eckermann, who owns the storage strategy for SUSE Linux Enterprise on my team, and our file system engineers led by Jeff Mahoney on their backs. This is a nice confirmation of us shipping XFS as a supported file system for four […]

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