Matthias G. Eckermann, Author at SUSE Communities

January 4, 2018 7:58 am

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SUSE Addresses Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities

Yesterday the security community and a number of IT vendors announced the existence of several hardware security vulnerabilities that allow potential exploits across a range of hardware architectures and operating systems including but not limited to Linux. https://meltdownattack.com/ SUSE engineers have been collaborating with our partners and the Linux community on upstream Linux kernel […]

Categories: Announcements, Compliance, Containers as a Service, Server, SUSE CaaS Platform, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE News, Technical Solutions

By: Matthias G. Eckermann

August 23, 2017 9:44 am

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Butter bei die Fische!

If Brazil, one of the world biggest producers of beef, would announce to stop producing fish: would you wonder, whether Peru, one of the world biggest producers of fish, would stop producing fish? You probably wouldn't. If one of the rather small contributors to the btrfs filesystem announced to not support btrfs for production systems: […]

By: Matthias G. Eckermann

October 30, 2015 4:34 pm

8,547 views

Ready to go, prepared to grow.

We are happy to announce SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 JeOS -- Just enough Operating System. In private clouds and virtualized datacenters today, fast deployment is critical to achieve operational efficiency. How can you quickly fire up an image in your virtual data center or private cloud without worrying about application certifications? Facing hundreds of […]

Categories: Announcements, Cloud Computing, Integrated Systems, Server, SLES on Azure, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSECON, Technical Solutions, Virtualization

By: Matthias G. Eckermann

August 22, 2014 2:47 pm

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Introducing the SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Security Module

More on TLS and SSL SUSE has released the "SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Security Module", providing enhancements to SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3, which allow customers and partners to build TLS 1.2 compliant infrastructures beyond the https protocol. Looking back ... As discussed in my former blog about TLS 1.2, we do not […]

Tags: Linux, Security

Categories: Announcements, Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems and LinuxONE, Technical Solutions

By: Matthias G. Eckermann

December 3, 2013 12:44 pm

60,926 views

TLS 1.2

Summary SUSE has just released a new Apache webserver module, which supports the "Transport Layer Security" (TLS 1.2) standard for HTTPS, the primary use case of the TLS cryptographic protocol. Details Background Governmental agencies around the world, such as the US American NIST (NIST SP 800-52 Rev.1) and the German BSI (BSI […]

Tags: Apache, Security

Categories: Announcements, Expert Views, Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: Matthias G. Eckermann

April 18, 2013 2:48 pm

398 views

FIPSified!

FIPS? - You may have heard about MIPS or about ECLIPSE, but FIPS? Granted, the U.S. "Federal Information Processing Standard" does not sound like the coolest thing to talk about on a sunny spring day. Yet, we are happy to have achieved SUSE's first-ever FIPS 140-2 validation for OpenSSL last week. See:http://csrc.nist.[…]

Categories: Integrated Systems, Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: Matthias G. Eckermann

May 24, 2011 10:01 am

9,196 views

2-3+4+7+0=10

This equation can be considered mathematically correct. But it also demonstrates how one can easily improve Interoperability between SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 and Windows 7 Active Directory. 3+4=7With Windows 7, Microsoft not only changed their naming scheme once again (remember Windows 2000, 2008, XP and Vista?), they also added enhanced authentication mechanisms to Active […]

Tags: Windows Linux Interoperability

Categories: Expert Views, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

By: Matthias G. Eckermann

January 28, 2011 9:21 am

4,548 views

Keep It Rolling …

Have you ever seen how they move big cheese loaves in the Netherlands? They roll them vertically! I don't want to deduct that they actually roll everything down there :-) However, there seems to be some affinity to not directly lift heavy weights, to not perform things in uncomfortable steps. Instead they try to resolve […]

Tags: AutoYaST, Upgrading

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: Matthias G. Eckermann

August 10, 2010 8:20 am

6,573 views

Data is Customers' Gold!

Data is Customers' Gold, the Operating System the Bank, the Filesystem the Vault. Discussing "Choice" last year, I already mentioned that we are proud to have certified all primary local filesystems in SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 (ext3, xfs, reiserfs) with major storage systems, and provide the best scaling choice for storage from desktop […]

Tags: BtrFS, Storage

Categories: Expert Views, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Author: Matthias G. Eckermann

SUSE Addresses Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities

Butter bei die Fische!

Ready to go, prepared to grow.

Introducing the SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Security Module

TLS 1.2

FIPSified!

2-3+4+7+0=10

Keep It Rolling …

Data is Customers' Gold!

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