A while ago I published this article: https://www.suse.com/c/discover-the-hidden-treasure/ . Today, I would like to share my most recent experiences with you. This post will show you the value collectd can provide for your Prometheus-based observability solution. Let me give you a brief introduction of collectd. Collectd is a daemon that reads various system statistics, e.g. […]

… or how to free even more data from the darkness It’s been a while. Last time it was about unlocking new treasures through using new tools, or how to avoid being surprised by unexpected events: https://www.suse.com/c/treasure-hunting-or-how-to-have-your-crazy-weekend-not-at-work/ The data treasure is growing In the meantime, we all got rich and our treasures chest is well […]

Cloud service provider (CSP) deployment wizards and ready2go deployment solutions are state of the art today. The installation of a complete SAP landscape, e.g. with the SUSE Terraform project (please check here), can be done within hours. What you will get is something like in the example picture below. With each new system your hidden […]

Some days ago the colleagues from the Alibaba Cloud team in the SAP LinuxLab approached us and ask if we would like to participate in a project together with the SAP ASE team and the Alibaba cloud team. The goal was to show an ASE HADR concept between Alibaba Cloud and an on-premise data center. […]

Following our motto „We adapt you succeed“ together with our IHV‘s and SAP we have refreshed the installer image for SAP Business One. First of all many thanks to all IHV‘s which have validated the new installer image. They went the extra mile with us and make this happen. I‘d like to say thank you […]

SUSE have released a new version of SAP Business One® pre-installed OS image for Business One. Since SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 we are happy to provide an pre-installed OS image which simplify the deployment process of SAP Business One®. The pre-installed OS image for Business One is a cooperation project between SAP, Hardware Partners and SUSE. […]

A new Best Practice is available! A few days before I went to the TechEd 2018 in Bangalore we published the documentation “SAP HANA High Availability Cross-Zone Solution on Alibaba Cloud with SLES for SAP Applications 12 SP2” on the SUSE website. (direct link) The Alibaba Cloud team and SUSE team here from the SAP […]

Real-time world Up-time is often taken for granted: It doesn’t become important until  something bad happens. Unplanned downtime: What does it cost your business? The amount of financial resources lost due to downtime continues to grow exponentially each year. Today, more and more IT services are required to achieve extremely high levels of up time […]