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Author: Joachim Werner

Joachim Werner
By: Joachim Werner

April 8, 2020 6:45 am

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SUSE Home Office Workplace: Our offering for your business continuity strategy

Providing employees in the home office with secure and reliable access to their business-critical applications - that is currently the big challenge for companies. Hardware bottlenecks, limited budgets and enormous time pressure make the implementation of emergency plans more difficult in many organizations. To help you work from home, we offer a cost-effective business continuity […]

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Categories: Announcements, Automate IT Ops, Desktop, Expert Views, News, Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Manager, SUSE News

Joachim Werner
By: Joachim Werner

November 26, 2018 6:21 pm

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SUSE Manager’s missing locking feature, and how it’s not missing at all

Earlier this month, a colleague from France asked why SUSE Manager doesn't offer a system locking feature when you choose Salt as the client stack. This feature is still available if you're using the traditional SUSE Manager client stack. It allows you to lock the system and prevent any changes like installing or removing packages […]

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Categories: Configuration Management, Expert Views, SUSE Manager

Joachim Werner
By: Joachim Werner

July 25, 2018 12:56 pm

2,564 views

Chariots of SUSE: running for fun and glory

I'm sure you've seen at least one of our SUSE parody videos. They're fun to watch and certainly have become part of our brand identity. Last week another great one was added to the SUSE channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79uDXto6Hn8&t=3s This was in preparation of our participation in the B2Run event, […]

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Joachim Werner
By: Joachim Werner

June 25, 2018 2:53 pm

6,383 views

What’s new in SUSE Manager 3.2

Did you realize that the title rhymes? There is an old saying that if something rhymes it must be true. And indeed, in this blog I'm only going to tell you hard facts about SUSE Manager 3.2, the latest release of our best-in-class open source infrastructure management solution that we announced today: Ready for […]

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Categories: Automate IT Ops, Configuration Management, DevOps, Expert Views, Software-defined Infrastructure, SUSE Manager, SUSE News

Joachim Werner
By: Joachim Werner

June 2, 2018 6:34 pm

6,357 views

We’re back to Earth, and the Earth is flat! Welcome Uyuni!

Open Source is about choice, and making choices. One of the choices we made when we introduced SUSE Manager in 2011 was to not re-invent the wheel. Instead, we based SUSE Manager on the Spacewalk project. And we haven’t looked back ever since. Spacewalk provided us with a solid and mature code base that […]

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Categories: Announcements, Compliance, Configuration Management, Containers, Expert Views, Kubernetes, News, Software-defined Infrastructure, SUSE Manager, Virtualization

Joachim Werner
By: Joachim Werner

May 4, 2018 8:23 pm

4,616 views

SUSE Manager 3.2 Beta3 has landed on my desk! And yours?

The SUSE Manager team has been churning out one SUSE Manager 3.2 beta release after the other. So I've had a hard time catching up with the blog posts. That's why today you're getting two blogs for the price of one: The announcement: Beta 3 is out (drums rolling)! Beta 3, our final beta, […]

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Categories: Announcements, Configuration Management, Expert Views, SUSE Manager

Joachim Werner
By: Joachim Werner

May 1, 2018 8:02 pm

4,083 views

A fresh breath of Oxygen: The latest Salt version, now on openSUSE Tumbleweed!

A couple of weeks ago, Saltstack proudly announced the newest version of Salt, the powerful tool for remote execution, configuration management, and event-driven automation. As you know, we've been using Salt a lot in SUSE Manager and as part of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Hundreds of improvements The latest version brings a fresh breath of […]

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Categories: Configuration Management, DevOps, Expert Views, SLES on Azure

Joachim Werner
By: Joachim Werner

March 19, 2018 6:22 pm

3,276 views

if count(ibm_power_systems) > 10 then add suse_manager_on_power

Sometimes, pseudocode is the fastest way to describe an algorithm. So the headline says it all: If you have to manage more than just a handful of IBM Power Systems servers running SUSE Linux Enterprise, we recommend that you add SUSE Manager to the equation!   SUSE Manager makes it so much easier to […]

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Categories: Events, Expert Views, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on IBM Power Systems, SUSE Manager

Joachim Werner
By: Joachim Werner

March 16, 2018 1:37 pm

2,815 views

OMG, I missed Pi Day!

After blogging about SUSE Manager 3.2 Beta 1 last week, this afternoon I was planning to look into what's going on in our stable release, Manager 3.1. And I suddenly realized that we're currently at version 3.1.4, the perfect release number for a blog on this week's "Pi Day". Well, […]

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Categories: Expert Views, SUSE Manager

Joachim Werner
By: Joachim Werner

March 9, 2018 2:06 pm

3,974 views

Who needs more field types if you can have all of them?

Formulas with Forms are one of the most powerful features that make SUSE Manager the ideal tool for consistently managing the configuration of hundreds or thousands of servers. If you don't know about them yet, you may want to read this previous post first. Since we added Formulas with Forms to SUSE Manager, customers, partners, […]

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Categories: Automate IT Ops, Configuration Management, Expert Views, SUSE Manager

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