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SUSE News / May 2016
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In This Issue
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Breaking News
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Dr. Thomas Di Giacomo has joined SUSE in the new role of chief technology officer (CTO). As CTO, he will engage in strategic dialog with SUSE customers, partners and open source communities to ensure that SUSE adapts to helping customers succeed and drive open source innovation in areas such as software-defined computing, storage and networking. Previously, Dr. Di Giacomo served as CTO and vice president of innovation at Swisscom Hospitality Services and CTO of the Hoist Group, a global provider of IT services to the hospitality and healthcare industries. Read more.
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SUSE Manager 3 Boosts Efficiency,
Cuts Costs in the Modern Data Center
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SUSE Manager 3 is now available. The new release lets you centrally manage Linux servers automatically across distributions, hardware architectures, virtual platforms and cloud environments. New features include Salt configuration management software, for real-time faster configuration and monitoring across thousands of systems; a new, easier-to-use subscription management tool; and enhanced monitoring capabilities. Learn more.
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SUSE Wins Two “Product of the Year” Awards
for Storage and Cloud from Network Computing
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The readers of Network Computing have voted awards to two SUSE products for being “second to none” in their quality and innovation. For the second year in a row, SUSE Enterprise Storage was named overall "Product of the Year” while SUSE OpenStack Cloud earned "Data Center Product of the Year" for 2016. Learn more.
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SUSE Expert Days are taking place worldwide in cities near you. Meet face-to-face in these all-day events with experts on OpenStack cloud, Docker, software-defined storage and more. For more information on topics, click here.
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Product Developments
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Software-defined Data Center: Updates
While the fully formed, highly automated, completely orchestrated software-defined data center isn’t here yet, SUSE can help you begin to make the transformation with these aids:
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What’s New in Storage?
The solution for reducing exploding storage costs is to implement scale-out, software-defined storage with open source technology. The question is how? SUSE provides these two product guides to help you.
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Partner Updates
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SUSE an Early Partner in the New Intel Cloud Builders Program
SUSE has joined the new Intel Cloud Builders program as one of the first technology partners. Intel Cloud Builders is designed to foster collaboration between members and drive POCs. The new Cloud Builders site includes software-defined infrastructure (SDI) use cases and helps organizations create more efficient cloud platforms through better use of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), orchestration and automation. Learn more and then browse the SUSE microsite on the Cloud Builders site.
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SUSE Linux Support in Lenovo XClarity Drives Data Center Efficiency
Lenovo XClarity is a resource management solution designed to simplify and automate foundational resource management tasks while enabling you to manage resources on your own terms. With its latest release, Lenovo XClarity supports deployment of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for bare-metal deployment. This allows you to easily and quickly roll out the latest offerings from SUSE to ensure that your data center is operating at the highest efficiency out of the box, while at the same time ensuring compliance with data center standards. Learn more.
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Huawei and SUSE Take Their Partnership to the Cloud
Huawei OpenStack-based FusionSphere, a cloud operating system, is now certified compatible with SUSE products. SUSE and Huawei products work together in virtualization, private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid cloud solutions—with Huawei providing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 drivers. Previous milestones in the companies’ partnership include joint support for SAP HANA and SUSE support for Huawei’s third- carrier-grade application platform—Advanced Telecommunications Application Environment (ATAE) 3. Learn more.
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SUSE OpenStack Cloud and Modukura’s MidoNet Provide OpenStack SDN Solution
Based on the collaboration of SUSE and Midokura, MidoNet (an open-source, highly scalable, and resilient, network virtualization system) and SUSE OpenStack Cloud now provide an enterprise-ready, OpenStack private or public cloud solution with software-defined networking (SDN). SUSE OpenStack Cloud provides the agile and open infrastructure and MidoNet overlays the existing network hardware infrastructure and allows users to build isolated networks entirely in software.
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SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6
on Ravello Systems
As with SUSE OpenStack Cloud 4 and 5, SUSE has once again partnered with Ravello Systems to enable partners and customers to easily and rapidly deploy SUSE OpenStack 6 in a scalable environment by leveraging Ravello’s nested virtualization technology for a publicly available platform for demos, development and test. Learn more.
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Why SUSE and SAP
Are the Perfect Fit
What should you look for in researching the right Linux platform for SAP applications and SAP HANA? Read this guide to find out.
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