Jason Phippen, Author at SUSE Communities

April 29, 2019 11:31 am

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IT Infrastructure Management: What You Need to Know

In the old days, system administrators spent a majority of their time watching file servers, managing user accounts, and ensuring network connectivity, but today’s infrastructure is a busier and more exotic place. Applications hide in containers, systems hide in other systems, new configurations appear and disappear with a single mouse click, and every file […]

Categories: Compliance, Configuration Management, Containers, DevOps, Digital Transformation, Software-defined Infrastructure, SUSE Multi-Linux Manager

By: Jason Phippen

September 25, 2018 10:35 am

21,225 views

SUSE Manager: Comparing the Alternatives – Ansible, Chef, Puppet and SaltStack

Comparing the Alternatives In my previous blog series we took a dive into SUSE Manager 3.2, looking at what SUSE Manager is, how it works and how it is configured. In this follow on blog we take a look at how SUSE Manager 3.2 compares with Chef, Puppet, Ansible and SaltStack. SUSE Manager […]

Categories: Automate IT Ops, SUSE Multi-Linux Manager, Technical Solutions

By: Jason Phippen

May 22, 2018 4:35 pm

7,318 views

451 Research Report: Managing the Data Explosion Challenge with Open Source Storage

Executive Summary Business IT is facing storage growth that’s exceeding even the highest estimates, and there’s no sign of it slowing down anytime soon. Unstructured data in the form of audio, video, digital images and sensor data now makes up an increasingly large majority of business data and presents a new set of […]

Categories: Ceph, Cloud Computing, Expert Views, News, Software-defined Infrastructure, SUSE Enterprise Storage, SUSE Software-defined Storage

By: Jason Phippen

February 15, 2018 6:00 am

6,626 views

SUSE shows highest functional score of Ceph distributions in Gartner’s Critical Capabilities for Object Storage Research*

* Critical Capabilities for Object Storage - Published: 25 January 2018 ID: G00304492 It is not easy to get onto a Gartner research note: you have to have the right - and robust - product capabilities, be able to demonstrate them in rigorous questionnaires, and you have to wait for an outcome you can’t […]

By: Jason Phippen

November 13, 2017 5:52 am

5,748 views

The Future of Storage: four reasons why open source storage should be part of your strategy.

The comfortable world of storage appliance vendors of ten years ago is under assault from a wave of technical and market changes that are rewriting how storage and data protection processes are managed and governed. Enterprises need to plan now to deal with those changes – or face a future where data is locked into […]

Categories: SUSE News, Technical Solutions

By: Jason Phippen

October 6, 2017 5:41 am

3,640 views

Does your storage need a re-think

IDC’s Digital Universe Study predicts a staggering 10x growth from now by 2020. If you are struggling with volumes now, think ahead to what it is going to be like in a few years’ time, and ask yourself this question: Is your current storage strategy going to cope? It likely you are going to […]

Tags: SDS, Software-defined Storage

Categories: SUSE Enterprise Storage, SUSE News, SUSE Software-defined Storage, Technical Solutions

By: Jason Phippen

October 4, 2017 1:28 am

4,456 views

SUSE is First to Deliver BlueStore – IT Brand Pulse Industry 1st Award for SUSE Enterprise Storage

BlueStore Boosts the Performance of Ceph Storage BlueStore is a major enhancement to Ceph storage because it eliminates the longstanding performance penalties of kernel file systems, with a whole new OSD backend which utilizes block devices directly. SUSE is First to Deliver BlueStore SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 Beta is now available and includes the industry’[…]

Categories: SUSE News, Technical Solutions

By: Jason Phippen

October 19, 2016 8:07 am

5,300 views

Chatting about Software Defined Storage With Intel

Intel very kindly invited me onto one of their recent podcasts to discuss software defined storage and SUSE Enterprise Storage, based on Ceph technology. Please have a listen. https://soundcloud.com/intelcitc/suse-and-intel-bring-software-defined-storage-solutions-to-market Also check out Intel's new microsite on SUSE Enterprise Storage and their solution brief https://storagebuilders.intel.com/membership/suse/ https://www.suse.com/docrep/documents/kknpw8ets2/intel_suse_sb_hi.pdf Thanks for the support […]

Categories: SUSE Enterprise Storage, SUSE Software-defined Storage, Technical Solutions

By: Jason Phippen

October 14, 2016 7:16 am

4,395 views

Transform your business with these top storage sessions at SUSECON16

With all eyes on the upcoming election in November that has the world glued to various news outlets watching and wondering which party will trump the other (pun intended), we could all use a break from the political banter that has dominated conversations. While Republicans and Democrats alike are begging you to join them, […]

Categories: Technical Solutions

Author: Jason Phippen

IT Infrastructure Management: What You Need to Know

SUSE Manager: Comparing the Alternatives – Ansible, Chef, Puppet and SaltStack

451 Research Report: Managing the Data Explosion Challenge with Open Source Storage

SUSE shows highest functional score of Ceph distributions in Gartner’s Critical Capabilities for Object Storage Research*

The Future of Storage: four reasons why open source storage should be part of your strategy.

Does your storage need a re-think

SUSE is First to Deliver BlueStore – IT Brand Pulse Industry 1st Award for SUSE Enterprise Storage

Chatting about Software Defined Storage With Intel

Transform your business with these top storage sessions at SUSECON16

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