Category: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension

With passenger numbers growing by almost 30 percent annually, LOT Polish Airlines needed to ensure its systems could support rapidly expanding business. To gain flexibility and break the linear relationship between business growth and IT costs, LOT migrated from Red Hat Enterprise Support to SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server with Expanded Support, reducing OS subscription fees […]

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When I first came to SUSE, our relationship with Fujitsu was on a more regional basis. We have a very close relationship with Fujitsu in Central Europe and I like to think it is because our companies hold the same values: both companies are committed to innovating products that are insanely reliable, both companies are […]

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All system outages are bad. They result in lost revenue, reputation damage, lost productivity and other impacts to the business. Outages of enterprise applications such as SAP HANA can have an even greater impact on a business due to the pervasive nature of those applications.  One reason you choose the IBM Power platform is the […]

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Whether you are running business-critical systems like SAP HANA on IBM Power or managing highly transactional workloads on IBM Z, maintaining business continuity is essential in today’s nonstop business environments. Many companies around the world are looking to ensure faster response times and low maintenance overheads through high availability techniques and technologies.  One such company […]

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All good things come in threes! Over the last three months, SUSE has enhanced the IBM Power architecture for SLES with three new features. 1) SUSE Manager Server now Supported on IBM Power Systems 2) Launch of SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching for IBM Power and now brand-new: 3) SAP NetWeaver High Availability Cluster 7.40 […]

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Back in August I wrote a blog about important updates for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, and I gave a shout out to SUSE alliance partner IBM for two years delivering SAP HANA solutions on the Power Systems platform. Well a few months later they achieved a significant milestone. There are now 1000 […]

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In general, at SUSE, we are very careful about giving any “universal” recommendations regarding performance tuning. Usually, we shy away from providing generic tuning instructions, and instead, where applicable, we try to establish a performance baseline and metrics for a given workload. The reason is that any kind of performance tuning and analysis very much depends […]

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We are happy to announce our first beta release for SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 for: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED), SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension (SLE-WE), SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availablility (SLE-HA) SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Beta will be our new major release designed for IT Transformation! SLE 15 is […]

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Real-time world Up-time is often taken for granted: It doesn’t become important until  something bad happens. Unplanned downtime: What does it cost your business? The amount of financial resources lost due to downtime continues to grow exponentially each year. Today, more and more IT services are required to achieve extremely high levels of up time […]

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Today I have breaking news about SAP HANA and NetWeaver support and certifications for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications. Over the last few weeks there have been three important updates, and it’s all good news. Update #1: Relax. SAP HANA 1.0 Support has been extended. In July this year, SAP announced that maintenance […]

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