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March 5, 2018 8:41 pm

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Toward Zero Downtime with SAP HANA and More on IBM Systems

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 […]

By: Jeff Reser

September 14, 2017 10:37 am

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End-to-end Encryption with SLES for z Systems and LinuxONE 12 SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems and LinuxONE 12 SP3 became available on September 7th and delivers virtualization and security enhancements that are essential in today’s security-conscious world. With a full range of security features, IBM’s latest mainframe systems (i.e., z14) enables pervasive, end-to-end data encryption without impacting performance – no […]

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems and LinuxONE

By: Meike Chabowski

April 24, 2017 1:25 pm

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There's Life in the Old Dog Yet: Mainframes Are Gaining Ground — Also Thanks to Linux

This article has originally been published in German at DataCenter Insider with the title "Wie wunderbar sind Mainframes - dank Linux". A huge “Thank You” to chief editor Ulrike Ostler for the permission to publish the article in English at the SUSE blog. Despite all the prophecies of doom, mainframes have never […]

Categories: Expert Views, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems and LinuxONE, Technical Solutions

By: Meike Chabowski

April 24, 2017 6:49 am

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The Mainframe versus the Server Farm – A Comparison

The following article has been contributed by Carla Schroder, Technical Writer at the SUSE Documentation Team. The original article has been published in German at DataCenter Insider. A big "Thank You" to chief editor Ulrike Ostler for the permission to publish the article in English at the SUSE blog. Google, […]

Categories: Expert Views, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems and LinuxONE, Technical Solutions, Virtualization

By: Meike Chabowski

March 29, 2017 6:09 am

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How to Set Up Your “Castle in the Cloud” – SUSE OpenStack Cloud and IBM z Systems

Yes, yes, and yes. Will say: Yes I am sure you are somehow familiar with our award-winning SUSE OpenStack Cloud product. It provides an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) for your data center, with access to automated pools of IT resources to run applications. This gives you the flexibility to respond quickly and easily to new demands, providing […]

Categories: Expert Views, OpenStack, SUSE Cloud, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems and LinuxONE, SUSE OpenStack Cloud, Technical Solutions

By: Meike Chabowski

March 27, 2017 7:18 am

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KVM and IBM z Systems: No Need to Niggle Thanks to New SUSE Best Practices

Innovation is a key driver for SUSE, and our goal is to provide you with choice and flexibility. One technology where SUSE steadily invests - as a critical area of innovation - is virtualization. Over the past decade, SUSE has been a pioneer in helping to develop and commercialize enterprise virtualization technologies—especially the hypervisor. […]

Categories: Alliance Partners, Enterprise Linux, Expert Views, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems and LinuxONE, Technical Solutions, Virtualization

By: Michael Friesenegger

March 1, 2017 12:01 am

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Virtualization and SUSE KVM support on IBM z Systems and LinuxONE

SUSE has been contributing to KVM development and has included and supported KVM in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for many years. This is true for SLES for Intel based systems while KVM for IBM z Systems and LinuxONE has been an evolution to fully supported. SUSE has included a technical preview of KVM since […]

Categories: Alliance Partners, Server and Application Virtualization, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems and LinuxONE, Technical Solutions, Virtualization

By: Meike Chabowski

August 18, 2015 3:15 am

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Top 6 Messages of the Recent IBM LinuxOne Mainframe Announcement

Yesterday, at LinuxCon, IBM announced "a significant expansion of the mainframe’s strategy of embracing open source-based technologies and open-source communities" under the umbrella of the LinuxOne portfolio. However, it seems that there is a lot of confusion about the announcement, and I have been asked frequently during the past two days, what exactly […]

Categories: Alliance Partners, Announcements, Enterprise Linux, Expert Views, Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems and LinuxONE, Technical Solutions

By: Meike Chabowski

August 17, 2015 6:44 am

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All About Innovation and Choice – Virtualization with KVM for IBM z Systems and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

You might experience it every day in your organization: your business is growing, your IT department must deal with new market requirements to support your key business, your administrators face an explosion of the distributed servers running a wide variety of mission-critical and lightweight applications. For your company, this results in ever-increasing hardware, software, data […]