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From both feature and security perspectives, integrating Linux systems with Active Directory environments has been a challenge for their respective system administrators and organisations. However, modern Linux distributions include the System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) which addresses many of the legacy shortcomings handily. The daemon uses identity and authentication providers (and other service providers) to […]

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Partnering with SUSE enables vendors to build and deliver solutions that help their customers reduce costs, manage complexity and mitigate risk. The SUSE YES Certification program brings this assurance by providing easily identifiable products that are certified compatible with SUSE technologies. This lets end- users know that both SUSE and participating SUSE partners will work […]

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Recently, I was in the beautiful city of Cracow at the Poland OpenStack Day. My colleagues from the Warsaw office had sponsored the event, and had asked me to come along to give one of the keynote talks. It was great to get to meet some more of my own colleagues, but to get to […]

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In the first of “Many Faces of Global Services” blog series, we interview Kenny Stewart, the VP of SUSE Global Services. During the interview, I learned a lot about Kenny.  For instance, Kenny spends his spare time with family and friends. His passions are watching his favorite football team, the ABERDEEN FC and fine whiskey […]

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Multi-factor authentication (MFA) solutions are becoming the standard for many user facing IT services. Most visibly with web applications, corporate VPNs, self-service portals and online banking platforms to name but a few. Extending MFA to the realm of system administration to harden access to the Linux operating system itself is becoming an established best practice […]

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Here we are preparing for another week in Vegas along with our HPE colleagues, customers and partners. At HPE Discover 2018 (Jun 19-21) you have the opportunity to see hundreds of sessions, training, demos, tours and also connect with peers, sponsors, partners and HPE experts to build career-boosting relationships. You will be able to explore […]

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This is one of the topics that we will be addressing at the first ever SUSE GSI Partner Forum, a targeted event specifically for our Global System Integrator partners, which takes place in Bangalore, on the 4th of July. We have a strong agenda lined up for the attendees from Accenture, CapGemini, Cognizant, DXC, HCL, […]

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… with SUSE Microsoft Solution Templates Following the launch of M-SERIES/SAP HANA certified Virtual Machines (VMs) on Azure, we had announced our new marketplace offering. At the SAP Sapphire in Orlando 2018 last week we presented it at the SUSE and the Microsoft booth. This Azure Marketplace offering leverages Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates to automate […]

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Before we get into the details, let’s just start with a bit of the answer, what SUSE Cloud Application Platform brings to any Amazon EKS cluster is ‘cf push’. Now, drilling into what ‘cf push’ is and does, what SUSE Cloud Application Platform is with respect to Amazon EKS, and if you weren’t reading the news this week, what […]

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This is the fifth and last article about sapconf and it will tie up lose ends. NOTE: For further documentation check SAP note 1275776 and the man pages shipped with sapconf. Summary of important things If you install the reworked sapconf version for the first time: After installation, sapconf is enabled and started immediately with […]

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