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By: David Byte

November 9, 2015 9:51 am

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Tuning IPoIB for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12

As a serious technology geek, I have a rather significant home lab environment.  While the environment is sizable, I'm not just oozing extra cash and consequently I looked for alternatives for high speed networking for my SUSE Enterprise Storage setup.  What I ended up with is a cluster furnished with dual port QDR […]

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By: David Byte

November 3, 2015 7:07 am

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Block and Tackle: SUSE Enterprise Storage 2

Here at SUSE, we are proud to continue our rapid pace of innovation in bringing the best to our customers with the release of SUSE Enterprise Storage 2.  This release does far more than just update the code base to the Ceph Hammer release, and I will attempt to outline some of the great […]

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By: David Byte

October 16, 2015 12:40 pm

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A Steady Hand

Today bears news of yet another tech acquisition.  This time, it is another open source player buying a configuration management technology company.  Normally, this would not prompt me to write anything, but this acquisition is exposing a distinct difference that is worth pointing out. For many years, SUSE has been known as an […]

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By: David Byte

June 29, 2015 11:53 am

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Why Free May Hurt Your Appliance or Cloud Business

In my role, I work with a lot of prospective partners who ask the question "Why should I pay for Linux when I can get XYZ distro for free?"  My answer to this involves several facets. Security - When a major security issue comes along, the commercial distributions are on the embargo […]

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By: David Byte

June 5, 2015 8:37 am

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Software Defined Storage Trajectory and SUSE

All of the analysts are predicting big things from Software Defined Storage (SDS) over the next several years.  In fact, some analysts are even predicting some very hard times for some of the traditional storage vendors.  This is all based on the tremendous pushback that is occurring against expensive, proprietary hardware based arrays […]

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By: David Byte

November 8, 2014 9:31 am

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SUSE at Super Compute 2014 in New Orleans

Once again, SUSE will be present at the Super Computing event of the year.  This year we are focused on innovation and what SUSE is doing that provides a positive impact in the HPC community. We will have SUSE Labs personnel around all week to discuss some of the great new features and kernel […]

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By: David Byte

October 24, 2014 12:23 pm

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HDS Shows How to Save Hours Patching SAP HANA

We've been working with HDS for some time now in regards to SAP HANA solutions.  As a company, HDS understands how to efficiently deliver SAP and SAP HANA to clients around the globe.  At this week's TechEd & d-Code show, they stepped it up a notch by adding SUSE Manager to the […]

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By: David Byte

October 20, 2014 6:48 am

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BIG News for SAP HANA with SGI UV

Last week SGI, a longtime SUSE partner, announced availability of the UV300H for SAP HANA.  While there are many systems on the market that support HANA, the list is quite small, even exclusive, when it comes to those that support HANA in a scale up fashion the way that the UV300H does. So what […]

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By: David Byte

May 19, 2014 7:28 am

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I know I sound like an infomercial…

Working with OEMs and IHV partners, I get a lot of opportunities to share our unique story.  One of the most exciting parts of our story is around what we do to enable rapid development and deployment of partner solutions.  As we all know, time to market is a key factor in the […]

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