Naji Almahmoud, Author at SUSE Communities

October 9, 2018 4:40 pm

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What to Expect from the Move to Linux

Ease Your Migration with Tools and Training SAP HANA runs exclusively on Linux, which means that a moment of change is coming for many SAP customers that have not yet adopted SAP HANA. Companies using other platforms, like Microsoft Windows, will need to migrate to Linux — and this is not an insignificant segment of […]

By: Naji Almahmoud

July 4, 2018 9:49 am

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Migrating to SAP S/4HANA and Why a Linux Platform is Integral to Success

Savings, new business models, and competitive advantage are a few of the benefits offered by SAP S/4HANA. See why SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications is a leading platform for SAP solutions on Linux technology, which is required for harnessing SAP S/4HANA. According to a recent survey, two-thirds of SAP customers are planning their […]

Categories: Alliance Partners, Application Migration, Cloud Computing, CSP, Digital Transformation, Mission-Critical Computing, Partners, S/4HANA, SAP Solutions, Server, Server and Application Virtualization, SUSE in the Cloud, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, SUSE News

By: Naji Almahmoud

June 22, 2018 6:04 pm

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Linux Eases the Migration Path to SAP S/4HANA

Capture the Benefits Before the 2025 Deadline SAP managers can’t afford to ignore SAP S/4HANA projects for two key reasons. First, the maintenance window for SAP Business Suite will close in 2025. Second, SAP’s new generation of products offers companies a huge potential for developing their business processes. To take advantage of SAP […]

By: Naji Almahmoud

May 19, 2017 12:23 am

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10 years ago! expanding support options to SAP customers

Ten years ago, specifically May 15, 2007, SUSE and SAP announced expanded Linux support options for customers (Press Release). Mike Schmidt-Holzmann, my alliance counterpart at SAP, and I started the discussion of joint customer support options early 2006 until we captured management attention. Back then and for several months the SUSE team led by me […]

Categories: Alliance Partners, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: Naji Almahmoud

March 22, 2017 11:41 pm

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Are you looking for a job working with leading technology partners?

We are hiring! Join the SUSE Global Alliances team, an international team that enjoys working with technology partners. Our mission is to provide SUSE customers the freedom of choice to run their preferred IT environment fully supported on SUSE technology. We are a team of confident and experienced leaders at the service of our […]

Categories: Alliance Partners

By: Naji Almahmoud

October 28, 2016 12:12 pm

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One Year After Formally Entering the Storage Market, SUSE Named to Gartner’s 2016 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage

February 2015, SUSE announced the first release of SUSE Enterprise Storage - Powered by Ceph and one year later, SUSE named to Gartner's 2016 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage. This is a significant achievement and technology vendors know what it takes to be named on Gartner's Magic Quadrant. Some of […]

Categories: Alliance Partners, SUSE Linux Enterprise, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Storage, Technical Solutions

By: Naji Almahmoud

September 14, 2016 1:17 am

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Courage is Accepting Being "Alone"

10 Years Ago Go to Nov. 2, 2006 when by then Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Novell (SUSE) CEO Ron Hovsepian jointly broke the news around broad collaboration on Windows and Linux. The market and community reactions were very mixed and to some extreme level calling for boycott. Today, the famous motto is Microsoft loves […]

Categories: Alliance Partners, Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

By: Naji Almahmoud

June 19, 2016 9:11 am

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7 Customers Running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for HPC

Below a list of benefits achieved by each HPC customer running SUSE Linux Enterprise for HPC. Click on logo to access more information on the customer use case. Increased stability and performance of messaging systems Ensured enterprise-class availability Low maintenance/monitoring effort: 10,000-user email system managed by just two engineers Able to reach […]

Categories: Alliance Partners, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: Naji Almahmoud

December 17, 2015 11:07 am

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New Technology Available in 2015

Apply security fixes to your IT systems with zero interruption It is called live patching that enable you to keep your IT system running while mitigating new threats. In other word, no more panic when the market discover new operating system vulnerability. New technology protect your operating system as it keeps running. Less than a […]

Categories: SUSE Cloud, SUSE Linux Enterprise, SUSE Manager, SUSE Storage, Technical Solutions

By: Naji Almahmoud

November 18, 2015 7:35 am

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Carpe Diem; Reach to Billions of Users

[caption id="attachment_21705" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Carpe Diem[/caption] Half of the world's population have a mobile device that connect us (billions) to each other. That's no surprise everyone and mobile apps are at the heart of human interactions. Businesses want to acquire customers who are reachable through business apps. We used decades ago, […]

Categories: Alliance Partners, Announcements, Enterprise Linux, OpenStack, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Technical Solutions