SUSE Blog

Tag: Live Patching

Michael Tabron
By: Michael Tabron

March 8, 2021 5:57 pm

913 views

How Open Source Makes SAP More Manageable

SAP continues to help drive the digital transformation of tens of thousands of companies of all sizes and sectors. In fact, SAP software touches nearly every aspect of how modern businesses are run. And with continued improvements to the platform, SAP is helping businesses to constantly move forward, to make them more capable, powerful, and […]

Read More

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Categories: Digital Transformation, Run SAP Solutions, S/4HANA, SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, SUSE Manager, SUSE News

Michael Tabron
By: Michael Tabron

January 20, 2021 7:47 pm

2,747 views

How to boost operational efficiency across all your SAP landscapes

Avoiding downtime can sometimes feel like a never-ending struggle, as IT teams grapple with planned or unplanned outages. But what if you could identify potential problems automatically — and solve them before they impact your SAP services? In a single move, you could improve availability and operational efficiency dramatically. What's the cost of downtime for […]

Read More

Tags: , , , , , , ,

Categories: Run SAP Solutions, SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, SUSE Manager, SUSE News

Michael Tabron
By: Michael Tabron

December 2, 2020 3:23 pm

2,882 views

New IBM Redpaper: SUSE and IBM Power Systems for SAP HANA

It’s now been a little over five years since IBM announced SAP-validated support for SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems. At that time (and for about 2 years), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server was the only supported operating environment and, given the pent-up interest in running SAP HANA on Power, I thought it would be […]

Read More

Tags: , , , , , , ,

Categories: Digital Transformation, IBM, Run SAP Solutions, S/4HANA, SAP, SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on IBM Power Systems, SUSE Manager, SUSE News

Sabine Soellheim
By: Sabine Soellheim

September 14, 2020 1:03 pm

1,989 views

Conquering downtime is a battle on two fronts — here’s how to win

Getting towards continuous availability is about more than avoiding the sudden outages that stop your business in its tracks — you also need to tackle planned downtime. But the task is getting easier, as more organizations that rely on SAP services are now discovering. Today, more than 70% of applications are now deemed 'business-critical' and […]

Read More

Tags: , , , , ,

Categories: Expert Views, Run SAP Solutions, S/4HANA, SAP, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, SUSE News

Raj Meel
By: Raj Meel

September 10, 2019 5:50 pm

2,751 views

Live Patching Case Study of GESIS

You can save time and resources by using Live Patching. GESIS is one of the many organizations who achieved excellent results using SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching. Here we outline some of those results so you can make an assessment about how these can apply to your environment. First, let’s start with “What […]

Read More

Tags: ,

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching

Jared Matkin
By: Jared Matkin

June 7, 2018 4:58 pm

1,736 views

SUSE Ready to Heat Things Up at Cisco Live!

  There are plenty of reasons to be at Cisco Live this year. Technical education, thought leadership and partner collaboration,  not to mention Florida sunshine (or possibly monsoon rains), humidity, Universal Studios, and Cake (the band, not the kind you eat. Yeah, we’d forgotten about them, too). It’s all happening at […]

Read More

Tags: , , , , ,

Categories: Alliance Partners, Run SAP Solutions

Nicolai Stange
By: Nicolai Stange

May 7, 2018 1:54 pm

2,168 views

Live Patching Meltdown – SUSE Engineer’s research project (Part 4 – The Conclusion)

Now that everything has been set to go as described in Part 1 (Key technical obstacles for Live Patching Meltdown), Part 2 (Virtual address mappings and the Meltdown vulnerability)  and Part 3 (Changes needed for Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) flushing primitives), the last missing piece is to actually replace the entry code and make it […]

Read More

Tags: , ,

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching

Nicolai Stange
By: Nicolai Stange

May 4, 2018 12:20 pm

1,892 views

Live Patching Meltdown – SUSE Engineer’s research project (Part 3)

Building upon the Part 1 (Key technical obstacles for Live Patching Meltdown) and the Part 2 (Virtual address mappings and the Meltdown vulnerability), let's now address the needed changes to the TLB flushing primitives. In order to resolve virtual to physical addresses, a CPU must traverse the page table tree. This is a costly […]

Read More

Tags: , ,

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching

Nicolai Stange
By: Nicolai Stange

May 3, 2018 11:59 am

2,074 views

Live Patching Meltdown – SUSE Engineer’s research project (Part 2)

Following up on the Part 1 about key technical obstacles for Live Patching Meltdown, in this blog I will give you some background on virtual address mappings in context of the Meltdown vulnerability and look at patching kGraft itself! Virtually mapped memory is a protection feature provided by the CPU, orthogonal to the privilege separation […]

Read More

Tags: , ,

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching

Nicolai Stange
By: Nicolai Stange

May 2, 2018 2:37 pm

4,511 views

Live Patching Meltdown – SUSE Engineer’s research project (Part 1)

Meltdown is one of the biggest and complex security vulnerabilities that happened recently and impacted almost everyone. I am a SUSE live patching engineer and wanted to share with you how unique fixing this vulnerability was in terms of scope and complexity. My goal was to see if I could also create a live patch […]

Read More

Tags: , ,

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching

    Section Title

    Search

    Social Media

    Recent Posts Title

    Recent Blog Posts

    Recent Posts

    Popular Posts Title

    Popular Blog Posts

    Popular Posts

    Categories

    Archives

    About Links

    SUSE History
    SUSE Management Team
    SUSE Logos & Imagery