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By: Grant Marcroft

May 7, 2025 1:03 am

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azure-events-az: The Scheduled Events processor for use across Azure Availability Zones

Redevelopment of the original azure-events resource agent Not everyone is crazy enough to go line-by-line through someone else's code when it's poorly documented and, thus, is difficult to support. Me: Enters stage left Hi! My name is Grant and I support Microsoft's Azure Customer Service and Support (CSS) team directly so they can support their […]

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By: Miguel Pérez Colino

February 27, 2025 3:35 pm

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The Evolution of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, 25 years of Enterprise Linux

Since the launch in 2000 of the first SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), or as we referred to it then: “SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for S/390”,  it has been the cornerstone of business critical enterprise-grade Linux distributions. Its reputation for stability, security, performance, and innovation has been well earned. Over the years, SLES […]

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By: Ralf Unger

January 13, 2025 9:24 am

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Automating SAP workloads on Azure: A success story

In today’s competitive IT landscape, automation and optimization of critical workloads are essential for enterprises aiming to maintain an edge. This success story highlights the collaboration between Microsoft Azure and SUSE Quality Engineering (QE) Department in automating testing for SAP workloads on Azure—an initiative that not only enhanced customer satisfaction but also paved […]

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By: James Mason

October 18, 2024 8:00 am

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Updates over IPv6 in the public clouds

SUSE provides an update infrastructure, enabling timely updates for SUSE instances in Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Platform, and Microsoft Azure.  We have recently completed upgrades to this infrastructure to support IPv6. All update servers globally will now respond to both IPv6 and IPv4 requests. Since cloud-regionsrv-client v9.2.0, released way back in […]

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By: Robert Schweikert

September 26, 2024 11:28 am

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Long Term Service Pack Support for PAYG Instances Simplified

Long Term Service Pack Support (LTSS) is an add-on product for SUSE Linux Enterprise distributions that affords the extension of support for Service Packs (SPs) for up to 3 years. Until now getting an add-on product such as LTSS and applying it to Pay As You Go (PAYG) instances was only possible with some business […]

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June 26, 2024 1:35 pm

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By: Sebastian Martinez

June 23, 2024 9:54 am

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Confidential Computing. Enabling Enterprise Innovation While Securing Your Data 

This blog will discuss the challenge of maintaining data security, sovereignty, and compliance. This discussion has evolved with the growth of multi-tenant environments and the widespread use of public cloud services, which has brought about new challenges in data security. We will explore the significance of Confidential Computing and how it addresses the concerns of […]

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By: Stephen Mogg

May 24, 2024 12:49 pm

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Adding LTSS to SLE 12 on the Public Cloud for PAYG / On-Demand workloads

This blog applies to customers running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (SLES 12) or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 (SLES for SAP 12) and purchasing SUSE subscriptions via the cloud provider (AWS, Azure or GCP), this is often referred to as PAYG, on-demand, etc. It was nearly 10 years ago when I […]

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By: Robert Schweikert

March 25, 2024 2:13 pm

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Incompatible changes ahead for Public Cloud SDKs

Let me start by stating that the following is limited to the Public Cloud SDK packages, i.e. packages that provide code used to access the APIs for Alibaba, AWS, Azure, and Google cloud, no other Python packages are affected by this change. Also the timing of when you apply these changes is under your […]

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