Jo Harris, Author at SUSE Communities

November 8, 2012 5:42 pm

4,540 views

How the SUSE and Microsoft partnership supports customers moving to cloud

In a new video, Michael Miller, VP of Global Marketing and Alliances at SUSE talks about how the relationship with Microsoft continues to grow and how the alliance's unique interoperability solutions have helped many customers around the world consolidate, simplify and better manage their mixed IT environments, in preparation for their journey to the cloud. […]

Categories: Alliance Partners, Cloud Computing, Expert Views

By: Jo Harris

October 31, 2012 12:56 am

4,070 views

New High Availability Certification on SAP NetWeaver

Uptime is often taken for granted: It doesn’t become important until something bad happens. That’s unfortunately the case this week, with many data centers still out of commission due to Hurricane Sandy on the east coast of the United States. Today, more and more IT services are required to achieve extremely high levels […]

Tags: SAP NetWeaver

Categories: Alliance Partners, Expert Views, News, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension

By: Jo Harris

July 23, 2012 10:18 pm

2,668 views

Proven Tools from a Trusted Partner Can Help You Make the Journey to the Cloud

For CIOs looking for cost-saving opportunities, the advent of virtualization has been a major boon. According to Gartner, CIOs can achieve 20%-50% cost savings by turning to virtualization. Perhaps that’s why IDC predicts that throughout 2012, 80% of new commercial applications will be deployed on cloud platforms. It seems safe to say that companies […]

Tags: SAP, Virtualization

Categories: Alliance Partners, Cloud Computing, Expert Views

By: Jo Harris

July 18, 2012 6:03 am

5,401 views

HP posts first ever result for new benchmark on SAP HANA platform

We're excited here in the SAP alliance team at SUSE as HP has recently posted the first ever result on new SAP NetWeaver® BW-enhanced mixed load (BW-EML) standard application benchmark - and what a result it was! So why are we excited? Well, the platform ran SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 operating system with a […]

Tags: HP, SAP HANA

Categories: Alliance Partners, Expert Views, News

By: Jo Harris

June 14, 2012 8:33 pm

4,267 views

SUSE on Azure – fantastic first experience…

Guest blog by Michelangelo van Dam, Certified Zend Engineer & Founder of PHP Benelux: I decided to put Windows Azure to the test and set up a Linux VM using the OpenSuSE distribution. Within 2 minutes I had it up and running (chosen a console-based install), installed a couple of essential packages and within […]

Tags: Azure, Microsoft

Categories: Alliance Partners, Expert Views