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By: jvonvoros

October 17, 2017 5:35 am

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New Research Shows Hybrid Cloud Takes Center Stage

  It’s probably not news to anyone that cloud computing has upended traditional IT and has continued to grow unabated for years.    Many commentators have suggested that the term “cloud” will disappear from our lexicon as it has become completely ubiquitous.  IT professionals must now defend their choice […]

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By: Matthias G. Eckermann

August 23, 2017 9:44 am

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Butter bei die Fische!

If Brazil, one of the world biggest producers of beef, would announce to stop producing fish: would you wonder, whether Peru, one of the world biggest producers of fish, would stop producing fish? You probably wouldn't. If one of the rather small contributors to the btrfs filesystem announced to not support btrfs for production systems: […]

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By: Drew

June 21, 2017 4:05 pm

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Hardware YES Certification with an installation kit or driver kit (also known as kISO)

An installation or driver kit from SUSE is simply a method to deliver the latest SUSE Linux Enterprise related drivers or other software in a packaged and supported bootable image. Installation kits can be used for any of the following reasons: To update storage drivers, which require very early loading in the installation and boot […]

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By: Kim Sherman

June 13, 2017 6:00 am

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You have just added SAP HANA to enable digitization – Now what?

According to a survey that Hitachi conducted with CIOs, 51% said that their top strategic priority is to invest "in new technologies to enable digitization." SAP HANA, BW for HANA and S/4HANA are solutions from SAP that can help organizations achieve this priority. So, you and your company have deployed SAP HANA and […]

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By: Drew

February 13, 2017 2:30 pm

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Are YES CERTIFICATION bulletin Config Notes from “the Dark Side” of hardware compatibility?

The easy answer is nope—no way! That comes from a person with years of YES Certification experience, not some Rogue person who suddenly has their Force Awaken one day! Please read on, because “Fear is the path to the dark side” and “Hard to see, the Dark Side is!” YES Certification […]

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By: David Byte

December 15, 2016 1:20 pm

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SDS Appliance? SoftIron says YES!

While at the SC16 show in Salt Lake City, SoftIron, a storage startup and SUSE partner,  launched their HyperDrive storage platform.  There are several aspects of their offering that on which I would like to provide comment. The first is that SoftIron bridges a gap between the proprietary storage arrays from the traditional […]

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By: Drew

April 25, 2016 9:17 am

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Comparison of UEFI and BIOS – from an operating system perspective

In a recent blog (the one right below this one, on the previous .../communities/blog/ page) I discussed the transition from BIOS (Basic Input Output System) to UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) firmware from a hardware perspective. In this blog I’ll address the comparison from the operating system perspective. There is a definite overlap between […]

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By: Drew

April 25, 2016 8:58 am

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Comparison of UEFI and BIOS – from a hardware perspective

For the past several years, x86 hardware systems (including desktops, laptops, workstations and servers) have been transitioning from BIOS-based (Basic Input Output System-based) to UEFI-based (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface-based) firmware interfaces. This firmware interface is usually just called “system firmware.” It is the initial code that recognizes the hardware components in the system […]

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By: Drew

February 25, 2016 2:15 pm

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YES Search: The way to all information…well, about certified hardware anyway

Where can you find the certification bulletins for more than 47,200 servers, workstations and other hardware components? How can you determine whether your company’s specific hardware is YES Certified with the latest SUSE Linux Enterprise release? Where can you find the specific hardware configuration for the certified server you are planning to buy […]

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