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By: Drew

August 24, 2015 7:56 am

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New processor(s) before the next SUSE Linux Enterprise Service Pack – YES to the rescue!

New x86 server processor technology is currently released on roughly a 12-to-15 month schedule. That means that approximately every 18 months there is a major x86-architecture update available from server vendors. Variants of these major processor updates, with different feature sets and/or speeds, are also released in-between the 12-to-15 month release cycle. Desktop and laptop […]

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By: Frank Rego

August 4, 2015 10:50 am

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Jetpacks and VDI on OpenStack: One of these is ready now.

Remember those old sci-fi movies in the 1960's where spies were flying around in jet packs and cars zipped through the air? The future seemed so cool back then, but 50 years later we're still stuck in traffic during rush hour. Like those old movies, analysts and market pundits have been proclaiming the "year […]

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By: Drew

February 12, 2015 11:23 am

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SUSE YES Certification bulletin exposed – part 4

This is the fourth and final blog in the series “SUSE YES Certification bulletin exposed” – designed to help SUSE Linux Enterprise customers and partners better understand what they can learn from a SUSE YES Certification bulletin. The goal is to lessen the stress of future server and workstation hardware purchases. SUSE YES Certification […]

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By: Drew

February 3, 2015 3:33 pm

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SUSE YES Certification bulletin exposed – part 3

This is the third blog (of four) in the series “SUSE YES Certification bulletin exposed” – designed to help SUSE Linux Enterprise customers and partners better understand what they can learn from a SUSE YES Certification bulletin. The goal is to lessen the stress of future hardware purchases. SUSE YES Certification bulletin exposed – […]

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By: Drew

January 29, 2015 9:17 am

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By: Drew

January 21, 2015 9:52 am

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SUSE YES Certification bulletin exposed – part 1

What information is important for you to have documented on a SUSE YES Certification bulletin? Can the information documented on a bulletin help you with your hardware purchasing decisions, reduce future stress and eliminate a number of future pesky headaches? The correct answers are a “great deal of information that you may not have […]

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By: Drew

July 7, 2014 9:47 am

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Even in a commodity hardware world certification is crucial

Is hardware certification important in the world of evolving “commodity” servers and desktops?  Should you care if your SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server or SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop installation is on SUSE YES Certified hardware? The correct answers are YES and definitely YES! Long History of Hardware Cert The YES Certification program has been […]

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By: David Byte

May 19, 2014 7:28 am

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I know I sound like an infomercial…

Working with OEMs and IHV partners, I get a lot of opportunities to share our unique story.  One of the most exciting parts of our story is around what we do to enable rapid development and deployment of partner solutions.  As we all know, time to market is a key factor in the […]

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By: Frank Rego

March 20, 2014 8:18 am

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What do connected businesses have in common?

2014 appears to be another inflection point in the evolution of IT. Today’s connected business will leverage mobile-first and API-first designs, big data analytics, improved online store experiences, agile development and operations, open source technologies, and IaaS and PaaS cloud-based services. For those businesses that can effectively take advantage of these new IT strategies […]

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