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By: Jo Harris

January 25, 2017 8:44 pm

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Is Open Source open to women? Three amazing women offer insight at SUSECON

For the first time at SUSECON, women took center stage in our keynotes – and not just one, but THREE amazing, inspiring women from IBM, Intel and Fujitsu respectively. It’s not that we’re not Open to women joining us on stage (of course we are, we’re the Open Open Source company) – […]

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By: SUSE

October 6, 2016 9:39 am

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Long term support for SLES 11 SP4 for POWER

SUSE announces Long Term Service Pack Support (LTSS) for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 4 on POWER. Maintaining support for Linux IT infrastructure is a key requirement, particularly for complex business critical systems such as SAP HANA. SUSE has seen a tremendous increase in the adoption of SAP HANA on IBM POWER systems […]

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By: SUSE

August 8, 2016 11:05 am

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The Agile Penguinz – Unfurling OpenStack Sails

[caption id="attachment_23721" align="alignnone" width="450"] Sailing in the Olympics[/caption] When IBM introduced two “Linux-your-way” LinuxONE mainframes a year ago this month, as part of the z Systems family, there was a keen focus on solving DevOps challenges and smoothing over different mindsets within Development and IT Operations.  In particular, OpenStack […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

September 18, 2015 8:43 am

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SUSE, IBM, and KVM: Powering the Future of the Mainframe

NOTE: A huge "Thank You" to Mary Marks from the Alliance Marketing Team for her contributions to this blog post!   It´s available NOW! After the announcement at LinuxCon about a month ago, now you can get the advantage of mainframe computing with Linux using KVM. The increasing complexity and resulting […]

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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 […]

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By: Naji Almahmoud

September 22, 2014 12:12 am

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Simpler Future with SAP and Partners: Your Choice of Innovation at Lower Cost and Higher Performance

Numerous practical examples demonstrate that SAP solutions with partners are continuing to make great strides in the IT market. This is especially true for SAP customers who migrate their business-critical applications to save costs and increase availability and system performance, including companies that rely on the in-memory database SAP HANA or want to make their […]

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By: Nathan Barney

October 25, 2013 10:17 am

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IBM Smarter Computing Debate Series: Open Computing

The 'What’s Next for IT?' video debate series is a "forum where expert IT influencers discuss cloud, data and security trends and technologies that are top of mind for business and tech clients." So says the web landing page for the next session of IBM's Smarter Computing Debate Series.  On […]

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By: Naji Almahmoud

July 19, 2013 9:57 pm

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Enterprise Linux Everywhere: SAP HANA, ERP, Database, Mobile, and Cloud

Since the first release of Linux kernel in October 1991 by Linus Torvalds, happy coincidence and hard work of people projected this UNIX-like computer operating system to incredible market positions. Linux today is present in: Mobile devices, thanks to Android (using Linux kernel) , where 400 million Android devices activated in 2012 More than 90% of […]

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By: Nathan Barney

April 23, 2013 7:45 am

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IBM PowerLinux Continues Support for openSUSE Build Service (OBS)

Today, over on the openSUSE site, our own Jos Poortvliet posted a blog discussing the recent work between IBM and SUSE to add more build capability to the openSUSE Build Service. The Power guys provided a couple of boxes so openSUSE can increase package build capacity for the Power platform on the Open Build Service […]

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