Jo Harris, Author at SUSE Communities

April 2, 2019 9:56 pm

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Our Kind of Open: SUSECON Day 1 Recap

We saddled up and kicked off the first day of SUSECON with a few bangs and heehaws! Here’s a full recap of the first day of SUSECON. Keynote The keynote opened with a new SUSE parody song “My Kind of Open Source” and immediately after President of Strategy, Alliances and Marketing, Michael […]

Categories: Announcements, Events, SUSECON

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) – […]

Tags: Fujitsu, IBM, Intel, Partners, SUSECON 2016

Categories: Alliance Partners, Announcements, SUSECON

November 10, 2016 12:30 pm

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Day 3 at SUSECON 2016

Down with the end of SUSECON Day 3 started with Michael talking about the theme 'Down with Downtime', "In a world where we always seem to want MORE and MORE of everything, we can all agree that ZERO downtime is best". He then welcomed Vice President, IBM Power Systems Ecosystem Enablement, Kathy Bennett to […]

Categories: Alliance Partners, Announcements, Events

November 9, 2016 12:00 pm

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Day 2 at SUSECON 2016

Adapting to Win (with our Partners) Day 2 kicked off with Michael Miller talking about the theme for the day, 'Adapt to Win', 'SUSE storage, cloud and container solutions really help you respond quickly to changing business needs. Because you have to be quick, but you also have to keep your costs down. Rapid […]

Categories: Alliance Partners, Announcements, Events

June 7, 2016 9:00 pm

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The Storage Revolution… another?

So as I was sitting in our partner port at SAP in Waldorf the other day talking with other SUSE folk about our new, exciting partnership that we have with HPE around Storage, my mind started whirring back to my days at Veritas. I remember going to a storage event in London, and being fascinated […]

Tags: Ceph, Linux, Storage, SUSE

Categories: SUSE Software-defined Storage

May 19, 2016 11:26 am

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Availability of SAP HANA important to you?

How would zero planned downtime for SAP sound to you? Well now that could actually be attainable. SUSE just introduced SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching to help customers running workloads on the SAP HANA platform, SAP NetWeaver technology platform and other SAP applications reduce the business disruption caused by planned downtime, while maintaining a highly […]

Tags: High availability, SAP, SAP HANA, Security, SLES

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications

January 11, 2013 6:06 am

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SUSE visits Azure

So today, me and a small group from the Microsoft and SUSE alliance team set off at 5am to visit Microsoft's data-center at Quincy in Washington State, US. We wanted to see for ourselves, one of the places where SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on Azure may now reside. Situated across the mountains from Seattle and […]

Tags: Azure, Microsoft

Categories: Alliance Partners, Cloud Computing, Expert Views

December 20, 2012 7:26 pm

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Important update to Windows Azure that requires Immediate Action

Microsoft is making updates to Windows Azure to further increase performance and stability of Virtual Machines, currently in preview. These updates require an immediate action - by January 15, 2013 - for custom Linux virtual machine images that fit the definition below: Any gallery Linux images you have captured into your storage account from a […]

Tags: Azure, Virtual machines

Categories: Cloud Computing, Expert Views, News

November 14, 2012 12:07 am

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SUSE goes to SAP SAPPHIRE in Madrid

If you happen to be at SAPPHIRE NOW + SAP TechEd Madrid, be sure to make it over to the SUSE stand (1080) where our SAP experts would love to talk to you about running SAP on Linux - and why, of course, SUSE is the best choice! We've also got some of our lovely […]

Tags: SAP, UNIX to Linux Migration

Categories: Alliance Partners, Expert Views