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By: Bryan Lunduke

May 18, 2016 9:30 am

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SUSE and SAP highlights from SAPPHIRE NOW

This has been a rather exciting week in the world of SUSE and SAP. With SAP's annual SAPPHIRE NOW conference in full swing, accompanied by oodles of announcements, now seems like a good time for a quick re-cap on all of the SUSE & SAP goodness. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP now available […]

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By: Drew

April 25, 2016 9:17 am

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Comparison of UEFI and BIOS – from an operating system perspective

In a recent blog (the one right below this one, on the previous .../communities/blog/ page) I discussed the transition from BIOS (Basic Input Output System) to UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) firmware from a hardware perspective. In this blog I’ll address the comparison from the operating system perspective. There is a definite overlap between […]

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By: Drew

April 25, 2016 8:58 am

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Comparison of UEFI and BIOS – from a hardware perspective

For the past several years, x86 hardware systems (including desktops, laptops, workstations and servers) have been transitioning from BIOS-based (Basic Input Output System-based) to UEFI-based (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface-based) firmware interfaces. This firmware interface is usually just called “system firmware.” It is the initial code that recognizes the hardware components in the system […]

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By: Bryan Lunduke

April 24, 2016 8:33 pm

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SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6 on Dell PowerEdge

By Jim Riley, Global Alliance Director at SUSE SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6, the latest and greatest, is now available on Dell PowerEdge systems. We've worked with Dell to develop and release a reference architecture that outlines everything that goes in to this joint offering. This new solution brings together the versatility of OpenStack, the improvements […]

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By: Bryan Lunduke

April 8, 2016 9:58 am

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SUSE, Badlock and You.

A Samba related security vulnerability, code named "Badlock", was recently discovered by a member of the Samba team. Details of this particular bug have not yet been made publicly available by Samba -- but SUSE is already at work to make sure that, when details are made public on April 12th, we will have […]

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By: SUSE

March 22, 2016 7:50 am

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SUSE Embedded Team to Attend Major Boston BIOMEDevice Conference April 13th-14th 2016

SUSE has entered the Supplier Innovation Challenge with SLES 12 SP1. The SUSE embedded team will have a booth (405) at this major Biomedical Device conference in Boston, MA that will have medical device companies including supply and manufacturing companies for medical devices. The medical device industry has been going through many changes recently, including […]

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By: Robert Schweikert

March 18, 2016 2:27 pm

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Potential update interruptions for SLES instances in Azure between March 25 and March 27, 2016

Starting Friday March 25, 2016 Azure will enter a 2 day rolling maintenance period that might effect the availability of updates, i.e. "zypper up" may fail, for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 and 11 (and all service packs) on demand running instances and may effect the automatic registration of newly launched on demand […]

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By: Kim Sherman

November 2, 2015 6:00 am

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A new day is dawning with one of our oldest alliances

It’s not every day that you get to be part of history. Especially with a company whose history is as illustrious as Hewlett-Packard. But we are! Over the weekend, Hewlett-Packard became two brand new companies – Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and HP Inc. And one of those companies has chosen SUSECon 2015 to announce its […]

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By: Matthias G. Eckermann

October 30, 2015 4:34 pm

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Ready to go, prepared to grow.

We are happy to announce SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 JeOS -- Just enough Operating System. In private clouds and virtualized datacenters today, fast deployment is critical to achieve operational efficiency. How can you quickly fire up an image in your virtual data center or private cloud without worrying about application certifications? Facing hundreds of […]

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