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By: David Byte

April 6, 2020 5:56 pm

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Tuning the Terabytes for SUSE Enterprise Storage

One of the chief questions I frequently hear and see is, "How do I tune my SUSE Enterprise Storage cluster?"  Well, now I can answer with a link to the SUSE Enterprise Storage Tuning Guide!   This guide is the culmination of efforts I have been working on for more than […]

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By: Ulrich Schairer

February 17, 2020 3:11 pm

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SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 released for SAP Data Hub 2.7

We are happy to share the news that SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 on premise is validated for SAP Data Hub 2.7 with SUSE Enterprise Storage as storage backend. See SAP Note 2686169. https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2686169 SUSE CaaS Platform 4 SUSE CaaS Platform is SUSE's product for a Container as a Service Platform. […]

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By: Ivo Totev

January 17, 2020 9:32 pm

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Top 5 Reasons Why You CAN’T MISS SUSECON 2020

A new year, a new decade, and a new SUSE (now fully independent), all coalesce to a new SUSECON—bigger, more inspiring, and more focused on the world we live in than ever before. Like a pot of gold, SUSECON 2020 will be full of life-enhancing moments to make your world better. Here are the […]

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By: Kent Wimmer

January 16, 2020 3:33 am

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A day in the life at SUSECON 2020. Updated calendar of events!

UPDATE!!! We are now just over 3 weeks away from the best open source event in the world! As you can imagine, we've had some significant updates in the last 6 weeks. Check below for a detailed overview of the agenda Plan to be inspired by keynotes, 150+ breakout sessions and more certification opportunities than […]

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By: David Byte

November 19, 2019 8:17 pm

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SUSE and the IO500 @ SC19

Back in June we announced our first set of IO500 benchmarks.  Since then, we’ve upgraded SUSE Enterprise Storage to version 6, which is based on Ceph Nautilus.  This alone brought some performance improvements over the prior release, especially in terms of metadata and small I/O performance.  Add to this the change […]

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By: Blaine Gardner

October 8, 2019 6:05 pm

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Introducing a Tech Preview of Containerized Ceph on Kubernetes

Now introducing... We have been hard at work to bring a containerized version of Ceph to Kubernetes, and we are very excited to announce that we are releasing a technical preview of our project to run SUSE Enterprise Storage (powered by Ceph) on SUSE CaaS Platform (powered by Kubernetes). We leverage the most modern, powerful […]

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By: Larry Morris

September 24, 2019 3:00 pm

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Persistent Storage for Containers: Why the Future is Open Source

Software containerization is unlikely to be at the top of the list of considerations for the average storage administrator.  First and foremost storage professionals are going to be concerned with every enterprise’s most pressing problem: managing the ‘explosive’ volume of data within the constraints of their limited IT budget. However, there are […]

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By: Larry Morris

August 27, 2019 1:00 pm

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Software-Defined Storage is taking over… Are You Ready?

Gartner predicts that in 4 years 50% of all storage will be either on-premise Software-Defined Storage (SDS) or in the public cloud – more than tripling from 15% today. A few years ago, IDC made a similar prediction, forecasting a compound annual growth rate for SDS of 13.5% between 2017 and 2021, with the […]

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By: David Byte

August 12, 2019 1:08 pm

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How You Can Make Ceph Better

Well, here we are, SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 is out the door and seeing customer deployments.  Product management is happy, the engineers are relieved, and our customers continue to move forward with more advanced features, reliability, and scalability than ever before.  With this successful launch behind us, it is time to ask, "[…]

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