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By: Meike Chabowski

July 4, 2016 4:01 am

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My first Hackweek project: openDoc

This is a guest blog written by Markus Feilner, Teamlead Documentation SUSE.  When I arrived at SUSE more than a year ago, with a background of journalism, Enterprise Linux, Consulting and thousands of pages of writings about other people's work in open source, I found a company almost 25 years old adjacent to […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

June 30, 2016 2:27 pm

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Hack Week #14 – Time for Innovation, Collaboration, and Education!

What is an intelligent and motivating way to foster open source contribution AND innovation? A really good option is offering a Hack Week. Don´t know what this is? Hack Week – at least at SUSE - is a week-long kind of development `sprint´ permitting our developers to dedicate their time on special projects. No […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

June 23, 2016 2:25 pm

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DVDs, Europe, 64-Bit: openSUSE Number Crunching Shows Growth

This is a guest blog from Markus Feilner, Team Lead Documentation. openSUSE is growing, and one third of its users is located Germany. Most of them download a DVD image and update that later on, and they are running 64-Bit systems. That's what openSUSE number cruncher Alberto Planas showed in his oSC 2016 presentation. "[…]

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By: Meike Chabowski

June 22, 2016 6:22 am

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openSUSE Conference – First Impressions of Day One

This is a guest blog written by Frank Sundermeyer, Project Manager Documentation (supported by photos from chabowski). Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016. Long awaited openSUSE Conference (oSC) finally started. I arrived half an hour before the keynote to join an impressive crowd at the reception desk. Upon registration, like all attendees, I received the beautiful oSC […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

June 14, 2016 4:40 am

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Adapt to Changing Data Demands with SUSE Enterprise Storage 3 – and Rely on the New Documentation for Its Deployment and Administration!

As businesses evolve in today’s hi-tech business world, coping with the sheer volume and growth of data is proving to be a significant challenge. The capital outlays required for extra storage capacity often exceed an IT organization’s budgets. Managing all this extra capacity is proving too much for storage administrators to handle without […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

March 9, 2016 6:39 am

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SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6? It´s a Breeze With Our Documentation!

Last week on Thursday SUSE announced the general availability of SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6. This version is based on the OpenStack release Liberty. It provides the latest enterprise-ready technology for building Infrastructure-as-a-Service private clouds with less stress on your IT staff and resources. SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6 not only delivers high availability enhancements […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

November 15, 2012 5:31 pm

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SUSE and High Performance Computing – Part V: How HPC innovation is spilling over to mainstream IT

Today is the last day of exhibition at Supercomputing Conference 2012. And the Salt Lake Tribune really hits the mark with its recent article about Supercomputing being now part of everyday life. In a sense, everyone has baby supercomputers these days, whether or not they are used for technical workloads. An important category within threshold […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

November 13, 2012 12:49 pm

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SUSE and High Performance Computing – Part IV: Linux and "High Productivity Computing" in the Enterprise

Linux is the undisputed operating system of choice for traditional HPC workloads or "number crunching". This is again proven by the most current list of the top500 supercomputers, which has just been published yesterday during the Supercomputing Conference 2012 in Salt Lake City. An impressive 93,8% of all supercomputers listed here is running […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

June 21, 2012 8:40 pm

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SUSE and High Performance Computing – Part I: How Linux did evolve

During the past days, I've been attending the International Supercomputing Conference 2012 in Hamburg. This is one of two events (the other one is Supercomputing in the US) where the newest list of the top 500 supercomputers of the world is released - Amie just published a nice blog about SuperMUC, the fastest supercomputer in […]

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