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By: Dobrin

February 9, 2022 9:10 pm

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ELEVEN REASONS CUSTOMERS LOVE RANCHER

We interviewed a number of existing SUSE Rancher customers and asked them what they loved about it. The findings are nothing short of astonishing! We are posting them here since they may help you with your container/cloud native journey. 1.  Customers love our free training – Rancher Academy. It was mentioned by almost all […]

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By: Dobrin

December 16, 2021 4:45 pm

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Customer Best Practices Which Make the Trip to the Cloud Much Easier

At SUSE Rancher, we firmly believe in the power of many! This means that with everything we do, we consciously make customer choice and flexibility the center of our purpose. To give meaning to this, we interviewed a number of customers and spoke to them about their efforts to accelerate digital transformation and their cloud […]

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By: Dobrin

March 20, 2019 10:24 pm

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Three Ways Long Term Service Pack Support (LTSS) Makes the Life of Enterprise IT Easier

Before I get to the three amazing things that calm down admins, developers and IT decision makers, I would like to take the opportunity and remind everyone of a few vital dates coming up: March 31, 2019. In other words, NOW. This is when SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 Service Pack 4 reaches end […]

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By: Dobrin

November 13, 2017 10:27 am

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Two Fast and Needed Actions to Get the Best Value from Long Term Service Pack Support

Long Term Service Pack Support (LTSS) is our offering designed to increase customer service pack and core server support period for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Its dates are set per service pack/code base and can be seen in our Lifecycle Pages. In a nutshell, LTSS allows customers to remain on a certain code base past […]

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By: Dobrin

January 31, 2017 8:45 am

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End of Long Term Service Pack Support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2

Earlier in the fall, in my older blog post I reminded everyone to check our lifecycle page often and I also cautioned that SLESforSAP11 SP3 is nearing end of general support. I also mentioned that SLES11 SP2 will soon be out of support. The time has come and our colleagues in engineering will pull the […]

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By: Dobrin

November 11, 2016 9:18 am

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Two Really Good Reasons to Keep an Eye on SUSE’s Lifecycle Page

End of January marks the end of some important events in our product lifecycle calendar. Lifecycle page snippet: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications (SLESforSAP) 11 SP3 nearing end of General Support. Customer options: upgrade to SLESforSAP 11 SP4 or purchase LTSS for SLES11sp3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 nearing end of Long […]

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By: Dobrin

November 23, 2015 8:51 am

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Seven Features of SUSE Enterprise Storage 2 Which Make it the Preferred Data Center Storage Solution

Simon Graphics is a design studio generating huge amounts of image and video files and are getting close to the limits of their proprietary storage solution. While it has worked well for them, it is a legacy from the company they acquired and is unaffordable to upgrade with fairly complex management. Their storage requirements are: […]

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By: Dobrin

June 3, 2013 1:03 am

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Package and System Management Tools for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and openSUSE

By Dobrin Dobrev The purpose of this page is to point out some tools for package and system management specific to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and openSUSE. This page is linked from the images which run SUSE in a cloud provider environment so some prior Linux experience is assumed. Install Additional Software SUSE Linux Enterprise […]

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