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SUSE®, the company behind SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), Rancher Prime and NeuVector Prime, today announced finalists for its inaugural SUSE Choice Awards, a global program celebrating organizations that have leveraged SUSE solutions to drive innovation, achieve outstanding business results and make a positive impact on society.
“SUSE is proud to work alongside our customers to solve some of the most challenging issues facing tech today, from security to tackling Gen AI to navigating application and infrastructure modernization in this ever changing landscape,” said Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, SUSE’s Chief Executive Officer. “We are honored that our customers continue to choose SUSE for this journey and proud of these many accomplishments. Huge congratulations to all finalists.”
The gold and silver finalists were announced today at SUSECON in Berlin. Van Leeuwen recognized 12 customers – seven gold finalists and five silver finalists – who have harnessed the power of SUSE solutions to redefine industries, drive business success and contribute to positive societal change.
“As an external judge for the SUSE Choice Awards, it was truly inspiring to learn more about the innovative transformations and impactful initiatives showcased this year," said Priyanka Sharma, general manager at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
Learn more about the gold finalists:
Digital Trendsetter – Hyundai Motor Company
HCloud, the private cloud of Hyundai Motor Company, includes a container orchestration platform based on Kubernetes and Rancher Prime. It hosts and supports the connected car service that provides remote engine start with climate control, on-demand diagnostics and alerts, remote door lock and unlock, and more for over 10 million vehicles globally.
Excellence in Business Transformation – Viasat
Viasat has fortified its container orchestration and security protocols with SUSE solutions such as Rancher Prime, SUSE Edge and K3s. Viasat is a global leader in satellite communications that provides connectivity across a variety of markets, including mobility and government services.
Sustainability Hero – Danelec
Danelec developed and manages a solution with SUSE Edge that helps vessels at sea optimize operations and routes to maximize fuel efficiency and report against Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) targets to clients. The solution is helping the maritime shipping industry reduce emissions, making progress toward meeting emission targets set by the IMO by 2050.
Industry Leader – Kratos
Kratos recently launched the space and satellite industry's first edge native terminal, OpenEdge, an integral part of their OpenSpace family of solutions. OpenEdge delivers game-changing capabilities for commercial and government applications that redefine the decades-old paradigm of proprietary, static, hardware-based satellite terminals with an open, flexible, software-defined approach. OpenEdge is built and managed with Rancher Government Solutions, a subsidiary of SUSE that focuses on the U.S. government, to provide a secure, lightweight, virtualization platform for hosting Kratos CNFs and other value-added applications using SLE Micro and K3s. Rancher Fleet and Server simplifies the provisioning process for OpenEdge deployments from Day 0 to Day N by enabling zero touch lifecycle management over the air.
Open Source Champion – Orange
Orange collaborates with industry peers, partners and competitors on Project Sylva, driving standards and reference implementations for telecom infrastructure. RKE2, Metal-Kube, Cluster API and Longhorn provide solutions to support Orange's cloud native architecture, ensuring scalability, reliability and performance for its telecommunications infrastructure.
Advocate of the Year – BMW GroupBMW Group has collaborated with SUSE since 2007 and shares SUSE’s open source ethos. An early adopter and advocate of SUSE solutions, BMW Group is using Rancher and virtualized environments on Harvester to host modern edge solutions for the plants that run Kubernetes workloads on-prem as an essential part of a cloud-centric ecosystem.
Choice Happens – WEG
WEG chose SUSE Liberty Linux as part of its multi-Linux distribution strategy. It has provided WEG with a single point of support for its heterogeneous environment.
The silver finalists include:
- Digital Trendsetter: NMDP, a nonprofit leader in cell therapy, helps find cures and saves lives for patients with blood cancers and disorders.
- Excellence in Business Transformation: Nova Credit, a credit reference agency that works with the personal credit data of 5.6 million Hong Kong consumers daily.
- Sustainability Hero: MTU Aero Engines, a leading airline engine manufacturer with the ambitious goal to offer climate-neutral flight by 2050.
- Industry Leader: Saque e Pague, whose self-service financial network transforms the circulation of cash in both physical and digital realms.
- Advocate of the Year: University of Luxembourg, which provides online testing operations for 25,000+ concurrent users of the country’s preferred education assessment system.
More information on the 2024 SUSE Choice Awards finalists and their cutting-edge solutions can be found here.
About SUSE
SUSE is a global leader in innovative, reliable and secure enterprise open source solutions, including SUSE Linux Enterprise, Rancher and NeuVector. More than 60% of the Fortune 500 rely on SUSE to power their mission-critical workloads, enabling them to innovate everywhere – from the data center to the cloud, to the edge and beyond. SUSE puts the “open” back in open source, collaborating with partners and communities to give customers the agility to tackle innovation challenges today and the freedom to evolve their strategy and solutions tomorrow. For more information, visit www.suse.com.
