Entwickelt für die besonderen Ansprüche des Einzelhandels: Verwalten, Sichern, Automatisieren und Konformität erzielen mit der neuesten Version der SUSE Infrastrukturmanagement-Lösung SUSE Manager for Retail Von Mainframe- und HPC-Clustern über Bare-Metal-Server und VMs bis hin zu Point-of-Service-Terminals, Kiosken, Selbstbedienungs- und Reverse-Vending-Systemen – Linux-Implementierungen mit SUSE Manager for Retail helfen dem Einzelhandel, Kosten zu senken, den Betrieb […]

Die neue Version SUSE Manager 4.2 bietet eine erstklassige Open Source-Infrastruktur- und Systemverwaltungslösung. Sie verbessert die Automatisierung, vereinfacht die Verwaltung und erweitert den Client-Support. SUSE Manager 4.2 ist eine erstklassige Open Source-Infrastruktur- und Systemverwaltungslösung für Ihre Hybrid Cloud-IT – von der Edge über das Rechenzentrum bis hin zur Cloud – und erfüllt alle Anforderungen an […]

Once upon a time, automating tasks on Linux servers was as simple as crafting a few Bash scripts and cron jobs. For some tasks, that process still works fine. You could create a simple backup script and run it with cron every night. Done and done. But with today’s increasingly challenging software stacks, the old […]

SUSE Manager for Retail is an open source infrastructure management solution that is optimized and tailored for the retail industry. You can use SUSE Manager for Retail to deploy and manage point-of-service terminals, kiosks, self-service systems, and reverse-vending systems, as well as other Linux-based assets within your infrastructure. SUSE Manager for Retail provides a single […]

“Only SUSE Manager combines software content lifecycle management (CLM) with a centrally staged repository and class-leading configuration management and automation, plus optional state of the art monitoring capabilities, for all major Linux distributions.” These days, IT departments manage highly dynamic and heterogeneous networks under constantly changing requirements. One important trend that has contributed to the […]

Linux container technology dials up efficiency and keeps costs to a minimum, but only if you have the tools you need to keep control of audits, updates, configuration and other lifecycle tasks. And with the ever-changing technology landscape, it has become critical that such management technology can work with containers. Fortunately, SUSE® Manager 4 includes […]

SUSE® Manager 4 is a best-in-class open source infrastructure management solution that lowers costs, enhances availability and reduces complexity for lifecycle management of Linux systems in large, complex and dynamic IT landscapes. You can use SUSE® Manager 4 to configure, deploy and administer thousands of Linux systems running on hypervisors, as containers, on bare metal […]

SUSE® Manager 4 is a best-in-class, open source infrastructure management solution that lowers costs, enhances availability and reduces complexity for lifecycle management of Linux systems in large, complex and dynamic IT landscapes. You can use SUSE® Manager to configure, deploy and administer thousands of Linux systems running on hypervisors, as containers, on bare metal systems, […]

SUSE® Manager 4 is a best-in-class open source infrastructure management solution that lowers costs, enhances availability and reduces complexity for lifecycle management of Linux systems in large, complex and dynamic IT landscapes. You can use SUSE Manager to configure, deploy and administer thousands of Linux systems running on hypervisors, as containers, on bare metal systems, […]

SUSE® Manager 4 is a best-in-class open source infrastructure management solution that lowers costs, enhances availability and reduces complexity for life-cycle management of Linux systems in large, complex and dynamic IT landscapes. You can use SUSE Manager to configure, deploy and administer thousands of Linux systems running on hypervisors, as containers, on bare metal systems, […]

A new generation of IT technologies has led to a revolution in IT management. Today’s IT infrastructure management systems put the emphasis on automation, remote configuration, and rapid deployment.   In the old days, system administrators spent a majority of their time watching file servers, managing user accounts, and ensuring network connectivity, but today’s infrastructure […]

In the old days, system administrators spent a majority of their time watching file servers, managing user accounts, and ensuring network connectivity, but today’s infrastructure is a busier and more exotic place. Applications hide in containers, systems hide in other systems, new configurations appear and disappear with a single mouse click, and every file is […]

Comparing the Alternatives In my previous blog series we took a dive into SUSE Manager 3.2, looking at what SUSE Manager is, how it works and how it is configured. In this follow on blog we take a look at how SUSE Manager 3.2 compares with Chef, Puppet, Ansible and SaltStack. SUSE Manager is one […]

Executive Summary Business IT is facing storage growth that’s exceeding even the highest estimates, and there’s no sign of it slowing down anytime soon. Unstructured data in the form of audio, video, digital images and sensor data now makes up an increasingly large majority of business data and presents a new set of challenges that […]

* Critical Capabilities for Object Storage – Published: 25 January 2018 ID: G00304492 It is not easy to get onto a Gartner research note: you have to have the right – and robust – product capabilities, be able to demonstrate them in rigorous questionnaires, and you have to wait for an outcome you can’t control. […]

The comfortable world of storage appliance vendors of ten years ago is under assault from a wave of technical and market changes that are rewriting how storage and data protection processes are managed and governed. Enterprises need to plan now to deal with those changes – or face a future where data is locked into […]

IDC’s Digital Universe Study predicts a staggering 10x growth from now by 2020. If you are struggling with volumes now, think ahead to what it is going to be like in a few years’ time, and ask yourself this question: Is your current storage strategy going to cope? It likely you are going to say […]

BlueStore Boosts the Performance of Ceph Storage BlueStore is a major enhancement to Ceph storage because it eliminates the longstanding performance penalties of kernel file systems, with a whole new OSD backend which utilizes block devices directly. SUSE is First to Deliver BlueStore SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 Beta is now available and includes the industry’s […]

Intel very kindly invited me onto one of their recent podcasts to discuss software defined storage and SUSE Enterprise Storage, based on Ceph technology . Please have a listen…

With all eyes on the upcoming election in November that has the world glued to various news outlets watching and wondering which party will trump the other (pun intended), we could all use a break from the political banter that has dominated conversations.  While Republicans and Democrats alike are begging you to join them, I […]

By Storage Review Enterprise Lab. SUSE Enterprise Storage is a software-defined storage solution powered by Ceph designed to help enterprises manage the ever-growing data sets. Further, SUSE aims to help by taking advantage of favorable storage economics as hard drives continue to get larger and flash prices continue to fall.

By Lenz Grimmer – With the release of openATTIC version 2.0.14 this week, we have reached an important milestone when it comes to the Ceph management and monitoring capabilities. It is now possible to monitor and view the health and overall performance of one or multiple Ceph clusters …

A great video testimonial by long time SUSE partner and customer Novacoast. Listen to their journey with SUSE Enterprise Storage; why they selected it and how they are using it.  

As predicted by a number of key analysts  the market has significant growth in software defined storage during 2016— and with solid reasoning. The capacity to pool storage across different arrays and applications is the latest wave in virtualization and is beginning to have the same impact on the cost and upgrade cycle for storage […]

The vast majority of IT departments are experiencing enormous increases in the demand for storage and computing power. Few ― if any ― will have the budget to meet rising requirements that continue to outpace the growth in their budgets. This raises a difficult question for IT teams everywhere: how long is the usual approach […]

If you think about it, pretty much all proprietary product development is done in parallel. Company A, which competes with company B, does its damnedest to make the best widgets in the world, using more or less exclusively its own resources. Company B develops its products on a parallel track. Convergence does happen, but mostly […]

As I discussed in a previous blog SUSE Enterprise Storage 3.0 the first commercial distribution based Ceph Jewel is here now, fully supported. To learn more about SUSE Enterprise Storage 3 and Ceph Jewel please join us on the 27th July for our webcast on the subject. You can register at…

  SUSE Enterprise Storage 3.0: Ceph Jewel is here now, fully supported, not on its way. There are moments when, reading around in the tech media, its fantastic to hear that the future will be here soon. Thus, within a few clicks on Google looking for for Ceph Jewel information, you can find Gartner rating […]

Here’s a few hard facts about the enterprise storage market from the bellwether of market share, IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker: The value of global storage sales is down to $8.2bn, a YoY decline of 7% ODM (Original Designing Manufacturer) sales to hyperscale environments is down a staggering 39% £681m. Server based storage is […]

The power of three: Software Defined Object, File, and Block on the same system. Choosing a storage approach for the modern data centre involves quite a few calculations and considerations. If you’re a typical enterprise, you’ve probably virtualised just about every server you can, and that means choosing a solution that will fit in smartly […]