SUSECON 2019: Family and innovative partnerships to support customer needs

SUSECON provides a forum for building a passionate community of technically knowledgeable participants who use open source technology from SUSE in their enterprise IT environments and share their passion for this open source technology with their peers. At our annual conference, we announce and demonstrate SUSE’s vision and latest technical advances to customers, partners, press and analysts.  We also share insights and share best practices on the practical usage of these technologies.

SUSE is more than just a vendor, partner or community participant. The way we work with our partners, customers and the community is by treating them like family.  We don’t approach our business relationships as transactions but with care, loyalty, integrity and offering expert counsel and advice about our solutions.  This year we are really honing in on this, shining a brighter light on customer case studies, partners and the open source communities.  Interested in learning more about what’s happening within the SUSE family?  I have a few session suggestions for you below:

SUSE and Qualcomm’s Success Story with ARM [CAS1056]

SUSE and Qualcomm’s partnership around aarch64 and how it shaped the enterprise market for ARM.

SPEAKERS

Michael Griffith, Qualcomm

Mike Marion, Sr Staff IT Engineer, SUSE

Session Type: Case Study

Topics: DevOps, Distributed Storage, Embedded Linux, Enterprise Linux, High Availability Solutions, High Performance Computing, Internet of Things, Open Source Communities

Technical Level: Technical Intermediate

Security, Low costs and Excellent Performance [BOV1146]

Internet security threats has been on the rise. Mission critical applications and systems for most corporate have in the recent past been compromised as a result of the gaps, threats opportunities exploited by hackers. SUSE Linux has continuously and proactively taken key consideration in ensuring the security gaps and bugs identified and immediately addressed as well as continuously improving the systems (OS) performance hence gaining big market adoption by most corporate. SUSE Linux has fairly affordable prices hence making it adopted both by small (start-ups) as well as big corporate. We as Savannah Cement we have been running on SLEs for all our mission critical systems (SAP) without any challenges for the past 6 years.

SPEAKERS

Dominic Kebenei, Savannah Cement Limited

Session Type: Business Overview

Topics: Business Applications & Middleware, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Linux, High Availability Solutions, Internet of Things, SAP Applications on Linux, Security & Compliance, Virtualization Technologies

Technical Level: Business Level Overview

What is your edge? From the cloud to the edge, extending your reach [BOV1161]

As companies continue to take advantage of the benefits of cloud – increased flexibility, speed of innovation and quickly responding to business demands, it is no wonder that they want to extend these benefits to the edge. But there are still a lot of questions. What is edge? Which open source projects are working on edge initiatives? What is really being done today? What do I need to be ready? This session will introduce edge, discuss the many open source edge initiatives and provide examples of how some are gaining business advantages with edge computing. From there, we’ll layout an architecture for the future.

SPEAKERS

Alan Clark, Director, New Initiatives, Emerging Technologies, SUSE

Session Type: Business Overview

Topics: Private/Public/Hybrid Cloud Technologies

Technical Level: Business Level Overview

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