Douglas Jarvis, Author at SUSE Communities

December 19, 2014 11:24 am

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Towards Zero Downtime OpenStack Clouds

For businesses of all kinds holiday cheer can quickly go from Ho! Ho! Ho! To Oh No! No! No! Cause when it comes to downtime failure is not option for enterprise IT organizations. Whether caused by operational failures, natural disasters or other events, periods of downtime can have significant consequences for business. As companies move […]

Categories: OpenStack, SUSE Cloud, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

By: Douglas Jarvis

November 11, 2014 7:41 pm

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SUSE Showcasing Public Cloud Solutions at AWS re:Invent

As the world of Amazon Web Services (AWS) collides with Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent, SUSE has touched down to demonstrate how to put the “Enterprise” in Enterprise Linux on the public cloud. For SUSE, that starts with showcasing how the recently released SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 let’s you balance innovation and […]

Categories: Events, Expert Views, SUSE Cloud, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

By: Douglas Jarvis

October 30, 2014 11:06 am

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Attend Free Hands-On OpenStack and Cloud Security Training from Intel and SUSE

OpenStack is at the center of most IT organizations’ cloud strategies, today. Businesses and governments have started implementing these strategies. As they begin this process and come to rely on their clouds ensuring not only the rapid deployment and easy management of OpenStack, but also the availability, security, and compliance of the cloud and […]

Categories: Cloud Computing, Events, OpenStack

By: Douglas Jarvis

October 29, 2014 1:17 pm

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SUSE in the Spotlight at the Paris OpenStack Summit

The OpenStack universe will be expanding to the City of Lights from November 3rd – November 7th for the OpenStack Kilo Summit. It is a great time for those interested in OpenStack to learn about the latest features in the most recent OpenStack Juno release, hear how the OpenStack vendor ecosystem is integrating with OpenStack […]

Categories: Cloud Computing, Events, Expert Views, OpenStack, SUSE Cloud

By: Douglas Jarvis

October 29, 2014 1:14 pm

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SUSE OpenStack Summit Partner Theater

By delivering unique solutions that make it easier to deploy, manage and get more value out of running an OpenStack cloud, the collaborative OpenStack partner ecosystem is driving enterprise adoption. In recognition of the importance of the ecosystem in extending the capabilities of OpenStack for enterprise deployments, SUSE is hosting a Partner Theater in […]

Categories: Cloud Computing, Events, Expert Views, OpenStack, SUSE Cloud

By: Douglas Jarvis

July 24, 2014 11:13 am

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Happy Fourth Birthday OpenStack

The OpenStack project turned four this past week. While birthdays are always a time to celebrate they are also a time to reflect on past accomplishments and anticipate the excitement of future endeavors. And, since OpenStack has been maturing in dog years, some contemplation of where it has been and where it’s […]

Tags: Cloud, OpenStack, SUSE Cloud

Categories: Cloud Computing, Enterprise Linux, Expert Views, OpenStack, SUSE Cloud

By: Douglas Jarvis

June 12, 2014 9:56 am

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Take a Free Spin with SUSE on Amazon EC2

I like free things. No. That's not right. I like free things... a lot. If I walk through a mall's food court, and someone offers me a small sample of orange chicken on a toothpick, I am going to eat it. It doesn't matter if I am even hungry or not.[…]

Tags: Amazon, AWS, Linux, SUSE Linux

Categories: Cloud Computing, Enterprise Linux, Expert Views, SUSE Linux Enterprise, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

By: Douglas Jarvis

May 23, 2014 9:53 am

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SAP Appliances and Linux Support on Azure Have One Thing in Common – SUSE

For those enterprises looking to run test and production Linux workloads on Microsoft Azure, including workloads like the SAP HANA Developers Edition, SUSE is once again collaborating with major partners to ensure the performance, reliability and stability these customers expect on premise is delivered in the cloud. What does that mean? Only SUSE is providing […]

Tags: Azure, HANA, Linux, SAP, SLES, SUSE

Categories: Expert Views, SLES on Azure, SUSE Linux Enterprise, SUSE Studio

By: Douglas Jarvis

May 15, 2014 9:31 am

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OpenStack Summit Recap Day 3: No Halftime When Changing Enterprise Computing

As we reached the midpoint of the OpenStack Summit the focus of presentations, meetings, and conversations remained fixed on delivering valuable solutions to the enterprise. The OpenStack Foundation kicked off a “Win the Enterprise” working group. This working group was started to identify key gaps and will work with the technical to address them. […]

Categories: Cloud Computing, Expert Views, SUSE in the Cloud

By: Douglas Jarvis

May 14, 2014 9:41 am

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OpenStack Summit Recap Day 2: The Changing Enterprise Face of OpenStack

The OpenStack Grizzly Summit in 2012 drew 1,200 attendees most of them developers or people checking out what OpenStack and cloud were all about. Keynotes and booth conversations were focused on technology, building the developer community and code base, or what people might try and do with OpenStack one day. Fast forward to this […]

Categories: Technical Solutions