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Today, SUSE announces the general availability of the latest releases in our Business Critical Linux (BCL) family – the SLE family of products (including SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 and SLES for SAP Applications 15 SP5) and SUSE Manager 4.3.6.

These releases are optimized to host workloads across the widest range of environments.  And, they provide one of the world’s strongest security postures, giving our customers the essential ingredient in a secure infrastructure as businesses build better multi-channel experiences for their customers.  While the entire BCL portfolio has been updated, three solutions worth mentioning are:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5

Our flagship product, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server,  is now available with a brand new service pack. In this release, we focus on security – including driver refreshes to enable hardware features to enhance support for Confidential Computing.  In addition,  we updated extensions and tools for SUSE Linux Enterprise that help you run your infrastructure better.

For more details and all the updates, check out this blog by Jeff Reser and the documentation page here.  For technical details, please refer to the here.

SLES for SAP Applications 15 SP5

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications is an SAP Endorsed App specifically designed with features to deploy, configure, and manage SAP systems on-premises and in the cloud. The new release of SLES for SAP Applications includes enhancements to Trento to help prevent any downtime of your business critical SAP applications.  Trento provides proactive checks and monitoring – an essential piece of day 2 operations for HANA and S/4HANA deployments.

For more details, visit the SLES for SAP Applications documentation page here.   And, for technical details, please refer to the release notes  here.

SUSE Manager 4.3.6

While this is not a major release of SUSE Manager, it includes some major enhancements.  For instance, SUMA 4.3.6 supports not only SLES 15 SP5 but also supports RHEL 9 and all of its derivations.  Additionally, this release of SUSE Manager supports recurring salt states and enhanced CVE and openSCAP scanning.  SUMA 4.3 will also have extended support – all the way through June 2025.  This is particularly important because SUMA 4.2 goes out of support in October 2023.

For more details, check out my blog here and visit the SUSE Manager documentation page here. And, for technical details, please refer to the release notes here.

Downloads Now Available

We’re pleased to provide new releases of our BCL portfolio.  We invite you to download them today!

• https://www.suse.com/download/sles/
• Covers SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 on AMD64/Intel 64, Arm, Power, and IBM zSystems & LinuxONE.

• https://www.suse.com/download/sle-sap/
• Covers SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 on AMD64/Intel 64 and Power.

• https://www.suse.com/download/sled/
• Covers SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP5 on AMD64/Intel 64.

• https://www.suse.com/download/sle-rt/
• Covers SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP5 on AMD64/Intel 64.

• https://www.suse.com/download/sle-hpc/
• Covers SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 on AMD64/Intel 64 and Arm.

• https://www.suse.com/download/sle-lp/
• Covers SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 15 SP5 on AMD64/Intel 64, Power, and IBM zSystems & LinuxONE.

• https://www.suse.com/download/sle-ha/
• Covers SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP5 on AMD64/Intel 64, Power, and IBM zSystems & LinuxONE.

• https://www.suse.com/download/suse-manager/
• Covers SUSE Manager 4.3.6 on AMD64/Intel 64, Power, and IBM zSystems & LinuxONE.

• https://www.suse.com/download/sle-micro/
• Covers SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 on AMD64/Intel 64, Arm, and IBM zSystems & LinuxONE.

• https://registry.suse.com/
• Covers SUSE Linux Enterprise Base Container Images 15 SP5 on AMD64/Intel 64, Arm, Power, and IBM zSystems & LinuxONE.

We look forward to seeing the adoption of these new releases in the market and we welcome your comments and input!

In our increasingly digital age, digital trust is the new gold standard. This trust isn’t something that’s just given—it’s earned, deliberately, through rigorous cybersecurity practices and robust data protection measures. As your business moves more of its operations into the cloud, the ability to build and maintain this digital trust becomes critical to your success.

At its core, digital trust is about the level of confidence your customers, partners and stakeholders have in your company’s digital operations. This trust is built on the belief that their data—both personal and business—will be handled with the utmost care, securely stored and used responsibly. It’s not just a promise; it’s a commitment that flows through every aspect of your business, from the core infrastructure right down to your customer-facing apps.

So, how do your customers really feel about you? Is their data safe with you? Are your digital operations secure? Is their information handled with respect and discretion? Can they really trust you?

At SUSE, we’re in the business of helping you answer these questions confidently. We help you protect critical data by staying ahead of potential threats, integrating security across all environments, and using automation to fill gaps—all while keeping the door open for innovation. Our ultimate goal is to nurture digital trust between you and your customers, strengthening it at every opportunity.

Navigating the delicate forces of digital trust, however, comes with its fair share of challenges:

• Emerging Security Threats: Ever-evolving cybersecurity threats loom over our digital landscapes. Staying one step ahead is crucial, demanding a proactive strategy that includes threat intelligence, vulnerability management and continuous monitoring.

• Incident Response and Recovery: Even with the best efforts, cybersecurity incidents happen. A robust incident response plan is your safety net, ensuring business continuity and maintaining digital trust when things go askew.

• Budgeting for Security and the Security Talent Gap: Cybersecurity is a complex endeavor, and there’s not enough talent to go around. As companies grapple with balancing cybersecurity investments with other business priorities, affordable security solutions and third-party expertise become indispensable.

• Security Integration: With today’s organizations operating across diverse environments, from core to cloud to edge, integrating security across the entire stack is crucial to protect sensitive data and maintain digital trust.

• Regulatory Compliance: Adhering to regulations like GDPR and CCPA isn’t just about avoiding penalties—it’s a fundamental way to protect customer data and build a robust security posture that not only meets but exceeds these standards.

This disruptive business landscape requires a holistic approach to establishing, growing and maintaining digital trust. Here’s where SUSE’s suite of solutions comes into play. Here are just a few ways we provide integrated features that bolster digital trust:

• SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) helps organizations run their critical applications as a secure, adaptable operating system.

• Rancher provides a simple, comprehensive platform for organizations to securely manage their modern cloud native stack anywhere.

• NeuVector, SUSE’s container security solution, offers advanced visibility, threat detection and mitigation capabilities and simplified compliance.

• SLE BCI (SUSE Linux Enterprise Base Container Images) enables businesses to build with a secure base for their containerized workloads.

• SUSE Manager simplifies, automates and secures the management of mixed Linux environments.

Digital trust isn’t a one-time thing—it’s an ongoing commitment. With SUSE, you’re not just reacting to the digital world; you’re defining it.

Click here to learn more about Digital Trust with SUSE.

With SUSE Linux Enterprise you’re not just using one of the most secure platforms available, you’re joining a community of innovators who are transforming the world.

The next release of SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), currently available in beta, is optimized to host workloads across the widest range of environments.  Known as having one of the strongest security postures in the world, it is an essential ingredient in a secure infrastructure as businesses build better multi-channel experiences for their customers.

While general availability is in approximately six weeks, the beta is providing a glimpse of many of the key features that the products in the SLE family will offer with 15 SP5.  We’ve grouped them into the following key areas:

Protect all your data

Build secure and compliant infrastructure that safeguards the operation of all your business-critical workloads.

• Prevent cyberattacks with secure software supply chain
• Protect data with Confidential Computing (Virtual Machines)
• Ensure security profiles with highest certifications available.

Run  anywhere

Run your mission-critical workloads from the core to the cloud and to the edge.

• Increase uptime of services with user space and kernel Live Patching and High Availability
• Establish a secure, reliable platform across core, cloud and edge architectures
• Optimized for SAP environments.

Scale endlessly

Build security-hardened cloud-native applications.

• Leverage scalability everywhere with virtualization and containerization
• Start easily with security-hardened Base Container Images
• Ensure greater cloud interoperability.

What’s new In the SUSE Linux Enterprise family of products?

The new service pack for the SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) family of products includes these notable features:

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5
  Designed to help organizations accelerate innovation, gain competitive advantage and improve productivity. SLES is available on x86-64, AArch64, ppc64le, and S390x hardware architectures.
  • Driver refreshes to enable new hardware features, like Confidential Computing
  • Updates from Intel, AMD, Arm, and IBM to enable new chipsets and machines
  • Updated virtualization, containers, High Availability, Desktop, and databases.
  • Updated language support for Python, Rust, and Go.
• SLES for SAP Applications 15 SP5
  Designed to deliver improved SAP system availability and faster deployment through automation and tooling.
  • Trento, the “day 2” operations manager for HANA and S/4HANA deployments, prevents downtimes of an SAP landscape through proactive checks and monitoring
  • Saptune tunes an SAP host for SAP workloads
  • Intel performance counter package allows additional monitoring of Intel hardware and memory to help diagnose performance problems.
• SLE Desktop & SLE Workstation Extension 15 SP5
  A complete desktop solution that provides office productivity, web, collaboration, and development capabilities.
  • Updates to the Gnome desktop environment
  • Enhancements of several stacks, including libQT, Bluetooth, and Audio
  • Improved interoperability.
• SLE Live Patching 15 SP5
  Cutting-edge technology that improves business continuity and saves costs by reducing downtimes, increasing service availability, and enhancing security and compliance.
  • User land live patching has improved integration and flexibility, reducing the need for reboots even further.
• SLE Base Container Images
  Freely available images and templates for building OS-based and language-based containers.
  • Base, minimal, micro images
  • Go, Node.js, Python, OpenJDK, Ruby, .NET, PHP, Rust images
  • Podman 4.4
• SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP5
  A highly scalable, high-performance operating system designed to utilize the power of parallel computing for modeling, simulation and advanced analytics workloads.
  • Updated tools and libraries to latest levels
  • Addition of Warewulf4 for cluster provisioning
  • Popular HPC tools are separately packaged and supported.
• SLE Real Time 15 SP5
  Specifically engineered to reduce latency, increase predictability, and improve the reliability of time-sensitive, mission-critical applications.
  • Updated kernel strengthens reliability with process and task prioritization
  • IoT and automotive enablement, increasing predictability of critical business process response times through real time scheduler classification and hierarchical priority schema
  • Identify and resolve bottlenecks in the system through deterministic results for applications and processes.

Summary

SLE 15 SP5 addresses your IT transformation challenges with one of the most secure OS platforms available today in support of your business-critical workloads.

For more details, please visit:

• SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 5 BETA
• SUSE Collective forum
• Release Notes for SUSE Linux Enterprise
• Information and data sheets on SUSE Linux Enterprise

Thanks for reading!  I will have much more to share over the next couple of months as we get closer to general availability and SUSECON in late June.

Jeff Reser

SUSE

The ground-breaking combination of IBM and SUSE security and sustainability initiatives pave the way to better choices for our customers.

This is exemplified by IBM’s recent announcement of the new IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 4 and IBM z16 Single Frame platforms.  These latest systems:

• Launch a new era of sustainability with a more cost-effective rackmount system.
• Provide advanced security with confidential computing that leverages a galvanized Linux infrastructure.
• Deliver choices to customers and developers on running the most ideal Linux environment for their business-critical workloads.

“It’s great to see SUSE’s support for the newest members of our z16 and LinuxONE families”, said Matt Whitbourne, Director, Product Management – OS & Virtualization, IBM Z & LinuxONE Systems, IBM. “SUSE Linux on IBM Z customers continue to be amongst our most important IBM Z customers, and we follow an open approach for Linux distributions on IBM Z, including SUSE Linux. We continue to work closely with SUSE on development, testing and support of SUSE Linux on IBM Z, to benefit our joint customers.”

Sustainability:  It’s more than a word

The IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper is built from the ground up on the very principle of sustainability. Just by itself, the Rockhopper design delivers the highest level of utilization for maximum efficiency.  With its optimized architecture to meet the needs of today’s businesses, the Rockhopper design also embraces sustainability without compromise.

As an open source company, SUSE also lives in the world of sustainability.  The whole concept of open source is that it delivers timely, agile innovation that acts as a force for good. Open source, by its very nature, is about teamwork and collaboration.  It’s about focusing resources where they are most needed, sharing knowledge, and dedicating resources to where they are most needed.

SUSE as a company promotes sustainability through action — from our “GoGreen” employee network to our green operations, products, and solutions to our partnership with Eden Reforestation Project plant the SUSE Forest in Madagascar, supporting reforestation and battling climate change.

Security:  From data at rest to data in use

Security is no doubt a hot topic.  And from its beginnings in the 1960s, the mainframe has earned its place as one of the most secure hardware platforms made.  The IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 4 continues this tradition by offering a trusted execution environment that supports confidential computing for data in use and pervasive encryption for data at rest and data in flight.   IBM designed the new Rockhopper to support 7x9s of resiliency which equates to just 3 seconds of downtime and quantum safe computing to protect encrypted data not only today but also in the future.

SUSE also takes security seriously.  From our SLSA-compliant secure software supply chain to our security certifications for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE builds all of our solutions with security at the core.  SUSE is one of a small group of companies that knows about critical vulnerabilities before they are published, resulting in fast responses for SUSE releasing fixes for security issues. And with the automation capabilities of SUSE Manager, your servers can remain up-to-date and compliant.

SLES is one of the very few OSs that have the highest level of certifications.  SLE uses a “certify once, use many” approach which means that all certifications and security processes are met/inherited from the common code base – whether you are using SLE Micro or SLES 15 SP4. In addition, SLE supports two different Linux Security Modules – SELinux and AppArmor – each with its own approach to securing access.  Supplying support for both SELinux and AppArmor gives customers a choice in how they want and need to manage security.

Flexibility:  At any scale

The new IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 4 delivers flexible consumption options.  In fact, this new hardware platform is perfect for managing the demands of your digital business.  Rockhopper is a massively scalable system holding up to 16TB of storage.  And for the first time, you can order the Rockhopper as factory frame or rack mounted.  Now that’s flexibility.

SUSE also believes in the power of flexibility.  Starting with a secure common code base, SLE is a modular operating system that paves the way for business transformation.  From the same secure common codebase, SLE Micro for IBM zSystems and LinuxONE provides a hardened and lightweight purpose-built operating system for containerized and virtualized workloads. If cloud native deployments on IBM zSystems and LinuxONE are interesting, SUSE Rancher Prime provides the flexibility of deployment using containerized workloads.

IBM and SUSE have been partners for more than 25 years.  SUSE is pleased to support the new IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 4.

Microsoft and SUSE have been close technology partners for many years. We create innovative solutions that help customers accelerate the migration to SAP S/4HANA in the cloud environment. Recently there are key activities that will help customers transform business productivities.

Special Acknowledgement: the activities mentioned below are co-authored with Ralitza Deltcheva, Principal Architect Lead, Microsoft. 

• A blog on the high availabilities solutions that help customers reduce downtime, increase service availability and reliability, thus increase business productivities.
• If you haven’t checked it out, listen to what the experts have to say about the high availability solutions in this on-demand session: “Learn how to reduce downtown for SAP workloads on Azure with SLES for SAP Applications”. Register to access SUSECON 2022 Session BP-1265

We welcome your feedback and comments. Please feel free to reach out to azure@suse.com.

The world and the workforce is forever changed. Many people say that Covid is the reason, but the truth is that it was merely a catalyst that accelerated the inevitability of a more virtual workforce. As a result, organizations around the world are being challenged to shift their attention towards retention programs and initiatives that deliver resources to enrich the employee experience through professional development and career growth.

For software engineers & developers, solution architects, and other technologists, gaining timely and marketable skills in open source has never been more important. Organizations looking to close the skills gap by bringing in new talent to support a modern infrastructure also need to view learning and development programs (both free & paid) for existing staff as an investment, not a cost.

By granting access to learning resources that enhance professional growth, organizations will realize that the measurement of that investment is revealed in a more skilled, productive, and satisfied workforce.

Open Source is the Language of Innovation

At SUSE, we provide all our partners with zero-cost training and certifications that help industry professionals gain in-demand open source skills.

When the SUSE One Partner Program was unveiled a few years ago, sales and technical trainings were built in as a core component of program success, and program certifications are needed to advance from Silver to Gold, and from Gold to Platinum in the program. The learning paths we provide help partners elevate their understanding of how to work with and sell SUSE technology, as well as deliver tactical skills and advanced open source knowledge that helps individuals become valued community practitioners.

As a SUSE One partner, you have access to it all:

• Sales & Technical Sales Training
• Technical Expert Training
• Support Training
• SUSE Academy (in-depth technical training)

Linux and Kubernetes are the backbone of hybrid cloud infrastructure and core to the success of a mixed IT environment. With SUSE One professional & technical certifications, you can gain the sought-after skills and knowledge that will help your organization win with open source products and solutions, deliver cloud-native services, or help ease the challenges of adopting, managing and scaling containers–from SMB to the enterprise.

A Program Built for Your Success

If you’re currently a SUSE One partner, be sure to review the updated training and certification courses available through the partner portal. For those of you looking to partner with a leading open source vendor, look no further. The SUSE One Partner Program has a modern structure that was designed to provide flexibility and choice to help partners get started, define their path, and accelerate to success.

Role based learning puts your organization on course to gain access to additional program benefits, discounts, incentives and support options, while giving individual contributors the skills needed to advance professional growth and technical acumen.  

Industry accreditations and certifications are nothing new, but the value they deliver has never been more important. Join SUSE One today, or log in to the portal to get started. 

“Compared to other Linux distributions, we discovered that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications is by far the easiest to deploy and configure — and once deployed, the SUSE solution also wins out in terms of stability.” Seo Jun-hyeok, Technology Manager, Consulting Team, LDCC.

To help keep operations running smoothly and deliver frictionless customer experience, South Korea’s largest department store brand, LOTTE Department Store, is increasingly dependent on its IT systems. Its parent organization, LOTTE Group, had relied on SAP solutions to drive core business processes for many years, and the launch of SAP S/4HANA presented an opportunity to build on these capabilities.

To unlock the benefits of real-time insights while ensuring rock-solid reliability, the LOTTE Group’s IT organization (LDCC) selected SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for SAP Applications to host its new SAP business systems. The objective was to achieve 100% availability for mission-critical SAP S/4HANA services and to enable the company to harness up to 100x faster reporting.

As part of a wider digital transformation initiative, LOTTE Group initiated a groupwide transition to SAP S/4HANA. The next-generation ERP will become the single, central platform for financial accounting for all group subsidiaries and provide a basis for tighter process integration.

After thorough evaluation of leading server platforms, SUSE was selected as the foundation for the new SAP S/4HANA solution. SLES for SAP Applications was discovered to be by far the easiest solution to deploy and configure, as well as the most stable and best solution. The platform was chosen to support companies across the entire group, including LOTTE Department Store.

Supporting a hybrid-cloud architecture

Working with SUSE, LDCC sized, tested and deployed its new SAP S/4HANA environments on SLES for SAP Applications. The SUSE solution is configured to support the company’s hybrid storage architecture, incorporating storage resources at its on-premises data centers and in the public cloud.

SLES for SAP Applications has delivered 100% uptime for mission-critical SAP S/4HANA services with flawless stability. As LOTTE Department Store moves ahead with its digital transformation, companies across the extended enterprise are now reaping the benefits of rapid access to business insights and are able to accelerate business intelligence reporting by up to 100x.

The team has enjoyed significant performance improvements for end-user analytics reporting tasks, many of which now complete tens or even hundreds of times faster than before. The switch from SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA has allowed leaders to make faster, better-informed decisions. These enhancements aren’t limited to business intelligence reporting: one subsidiary cut its month-end closing process from several days to just a few hours.

Equipped with real-time insights into business performance, LOTTE Department Store is in a stronger position than ever to deliver high-quality services that delight customers and foster their loyalty. There is also confidence from a LOTTE Group perspective that it has the secure, stable, and future-ready platform to support its ongoing digital transformation.

Click here to find out more about how LOTTE Department Store shapes outstanding services with faster business insights.

It has been almost two years since the team at SUSE reimagined the framework of our partner program. In response to the changing demands of the market and the channel, we set out to build a structure around six areas of specialization. Each was created with unique partner types in mind, and provides the ability for organizations to adapt, accelerate, and grow their business practice as technology trends and customer requirements continue their evolution.

In 2021, that radical change in format to the SUSE One Partner Program earned us a 5-Star Rating from CRN, and today, we’re happy to announce that SUSE has been awarded that honor for the 2^nd year in a row.  

What is the CRN 5-Star Rating

The annual Partner Program Guide rating given by CRN includes the most notable partner programs from industry-leading technology vendors that provide innovative products and flexible services through the IT channel. The 5-star rating is only given to vendors that excel in their programs by driving partner focused market opportunity and growth.

Companies are scored based on their investments in program offerings, partner profitability, partner training, education & support, marketing programs & resources, sales support, and communication.

SUSE is honored to receive this recognition again.

Our Ongoing Investments in Partner Success

As the SUSE One Partner Program continues to improve and expand around the unique needs of our ecosystem, so do the tools and resources that support it. Our program team is continually updating incentives, enhancing processes around deal registration, introducing new program training & certification courses, and adding beneficial selling resources.

In addition, the SUSE One partner portal recently underwent a comprehensive design overhaul. As the hub for partner activity, the updates will help SUSE scale program growth and better serve our growing community of partners and open source practitioners.

If you’re an existing partner and haven’t seen the updates, be sure and take a look at the portal. For those considering joining SUSE One, there’s never been a better time to find success with open source and SUSE offerings.

RISE with SAP is a full-service or transformation as a service offering from SAP that supports companies in their digital transformation. The central solution is the ERP solution SAP S/4HANA in the cloud with two deployment models: The public cloud and the private cloud. Included in the offering are the re-design of business processes, the provision of tools and services for a technical migration to the cloud and the use of platforms and solutions for digital transformation.

There is currently a lot of talk about “RISE with SAP”. But while many customers expressed an initial interest in learning more about the solution, it is unclear how many plan on adopting it in the long term.

Download the SAPinsider Report

SAPinsiders surveyed 238 members of the SAPinsider community in October and November 2021 to understand:

• What does RISE with SAP means for organization?
• How does it impact any existing plans for SAP S/4HANA?
• What can it offer in terms of business transformation?

The survey starts with the first question about how much customers knew about the different components of the RISE with SAP offering and is followed by the motivation for RISE with SAP. It makes sense that the biggest area of interest to respondents is costs. However, respondents also identified several concerns about the RISE with SAP offering. The biggest concern was support for mixed vendor landscapes and project transparency.

Shall I consider RISE with SAP?

Are you planning to use or consider RISE for SAP? Download the survey and get good input on the following questions:

• Who is adopting RISE with SAP?
• What features are leveraged?
• How can RISE drive business transformation projects?
• What are the steps to be successful with RISE with SAP?

Announced in January 2021, RISE with SAP remains one of the most discussed topics in the SAP space. For many it is just interest in RISE with SAP. Has this changed? What do you think?

Learn more about SAP in the public cloud

Regardless of RISE with SAP, the transformation of SAP S/4HANA remains one of the most important topics in 2022. Organizations are migrating SAP S/4HANA to the public cloud to enable faster business growth, higher productivity, and new avenues for innovation.

SUSE enables you to rapidly deploy and scale mission-critical SAP applications on your choice of hyperscalers with high availability and reduced complexity. Learn how you can accelerate your cloud vision.