SUSE has achieved the highest level of partnership status within Intel’s Partner Alliance Program.

Congratulations to everyone in #SUSE and #Intel® who made this happen!

Intel’s Titanium partnership level is reserved for those partners who demonstrate superior business and technical skills as well as leadership in the development of innovative customer solutions.

Intel and SUSE’s collaboration closely mirrors the history of open-source computing during the last 30 years.   From component enablement (processors, memory, networking, and storage connectivity) to working in key upstream projects like virtualization, EFI/UEFI, to cloud-native technologies, Intel and SUSE have been there.

As the needs of our customers continue to evolve, so does the scope of our activities.  Today’s partnership covers complete solutions around key sectors, such as high-performance and high-throughput computing, AI/ML, and edge computing (Telco, Industrial IoT).  In this solution-first approach, the focus is demonstrating what’s possible with the right Intel-SUSE product combinations addressing important topics like secure device onboarding for edge devices, or simplifying the access to Intel technologies (network, GPUs, etc) and cloud-native applications.

“With Intel, we are excited to continously foster the strong partnership via numerous R&D activities, SAP Cloud Migration projects, SUSE strategic engagement in the future of AI  as well as edge-based provisioning with Intel-optimized open-source technologies.  We are also jointly exploring the market to identify new use cases and opportunities”.  – David Landy, Director Solutions Partners & Alliances, SUSE.

With Titanium-level access, SUSE will have exclusive business-building opportunities – entry to Intel’s global marketplace, advanced training, and promotional support.

For more information about the Intel/SUSE relationship, please visit us at https://www.suse.com/partners/alliance/intel/

The Harvester team is pleased to announce the next release of our open source hyperconverged infrastructure product. For those unfamiliar with how Harvester works, I invite you to check out this blog from our 1.0 launch that explains it further. This next version of Harvester adds several new and important features to help our users get more value out of Harvester. It reflects the efforts of many people, both at SUSE and in the open source community, who have contributed to the product thus far. Let’s dive into some of the key features.  

GPU and PCI device pass-through 

The GPU and PCI device pass-through experimental features are some of the most requested features this year and are officially live. These features enable Harvester users to run applications in VMs that need to take advantage of PCI devices on the physical host. Most notably, GPUs are an ever-increasing use case to support the growing demand for Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and analytics workloads. Our users have learned that both container and VM workloads need to access GPUs to power their businesses. This feature also can support a variety of other use cases that need PCI; for instance, SR-IOV-enabled Network Interface Cards can expose virtual functions as PCI devices, which Harvester can then attach to VMs. In the future, we plan to extend this function to support advanced forms of device passthrough, such as vGPU technologies.  

VM Import Operator  

Many Harvester users maintain other HCI solutions with a various array of VM workloads. And for some of these use cases, they want to migrate these VMs to Harvester. To make this process easier, we created the VM Import Operator, which automates the migration of VMs from existing HCI to Harvester. It currently supports two popular flavors: OpenStack and VMware vSphere. The operator will connect to either of those systems and copy the virtual disk data for each VM to Harvester’s datastore. Then it will translate the metadata that configures the VM to the comparable settings in Harvester.   

Storage network 

Harvester runs on various hardware profiles, some clusters being more compute-optimized and others optimized for storage performance. In the case of workloads needing high-performance storage, one way to increase efficiency is to dedicate a network to storage replication. For this reason, we created the Storage Network feature. A dedicated storage network removes I/O contention between workload traffic (pod-to-pod communication, VM-to-VM, etc.) and the storage traffic, which is latency sensitive. Additionally, higher capacity network interfaces can be procured for storage, such as 40 or 100 GB Ethernet.  

Storage tiering  

When supporting workloads requiring different types of storage, it is important to be able to define classes or tiers of storage that a user can choose from when provisioning a VM. Tiers can be labeled with convenient terms such as “fast” or “archival” to make them user-friendly. In turn, the administrator can then map those storage tiers to specific disks on the bare metal system. Both node and disk label selectors define the mapping, so a user can specify a unique combination of nodes and disks on those nodes that should be used to back a storage tier. Some of our Harvester users want to use this feature to utilize slower magnetic storage technologies for parts of the application where IOPS is not a concern and low-cost storage is preferred.

In summary, the past year has been an important chapter in the evolution of Harvester. As we look to the future, we expect to see more features and enhancements in store. Harvester plans to have two feature releases next year, allowing for a more rapid iteration of the ideas in our roadmap. You can download the latest version of Harvester on Github. Please continue to share your feedback with us through our community slack or your SUSE account representative.  

Learn more

Download our FREE eBook, 6 Reasons Why Harvester Accelerates IT Modernization Initiatives. This eBook identifies the top drivers of IT modernization, outlines an IT modernization framework and introduces Harvester, an open, interoperable hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution.

Introduction

I had the chance to talk about Predictive Autoscaling Patterns with Kubernetes at the Container Days 22 Conference in September of 2022.  I delivered the talk with a former colleague in Hamburg, Germany, and was an outstanding experience! The entire process of delivering the talk began when the Call for Papers opened back in March 2022. My colleague and I worked together, playing with the technology, better understanding the components and preparing the labs. 

In this article, I will discuss my experiences, lessons learned and suggestions for providing a successful technical presentation. 

My Experiences

As a Cloud Consultant in a previous role, I have attended events, such as the CNCF KubeCon and the Open Source Infra Summit. I also helped in workshops, serving as a booth staff performing demos and introducing the product to the attendees. Public speaking was something that always piqued my interest, but I didn’t know where to start. 

One of my previous duties was to provide technical expertise to customers and help sales organizations identify potential solutions and create workshops to work with the customers. Doing this gave me a unique opportunity to introduce myself to the process of speaking; I found it interesting and a great source of self-reflection.

Developing communication skills is not something you can learn just by taking a training course or listening to others doing it. I consider rehearsal mandatory, as I always learn something new every time. However, the best way to develop communication skills is to deliver content. 

How to Select the Right Topic 

Selecting the right topic for a speech is one of the first things you should consider. The topic should be a mix of something you are comfortable with and something you have enough technical background knowledge of; it does not need to be work-related, just something you find interesting and want to discuss. 

I delivered a talk with a former colleague, Roberto Carratalá, who works for a competitor. Right now, some of the most-used technologies (Kubernetes, its SIGs, programming languages, Kubevirt and many others) are open sourced projects with no direct companies involved. Talking about the technologies can open new windows to selecting an agnostic topic you and your co-speaker could discuss. Don’t let companies’ differences get in your way of providing a great talk.

In our case, we decided to move on with Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) and our architecture around it. We utilized examples and created use cases to showcase. It is important to narrow down the concept to real use cases so the audience can link with their own use cases, and it can also serve as a baseline for the audience to adapt to their customers. 

VPA is a technology-agnostic vendor that can be used within a vendor distribution with minimum changes. You could consider talking about this technology, which can be applied to a vendor-specific product. 

Whether you are an Engineer, Project Manager, Architect, Consultant or hold a non-technical role, we are all involved in IT. Within your area of specialization, you can talk about your experiences, what you learned, how you performed or even the challenges you faced explaining the process.

From “How to contribute to an Open Source project” to “How to write eBPF programs with Golang,” a different audience will be called. 

Here are some ideas: 

• Have you recently had a good experience with a tool or project and want to share your experiences? 
• Did you overcome a downtime situation with your customer? What a good experience to share! 
• Business challenges and how you faced them. 
• Are you a maintainer or contributor to a project? Take your chance and generate some hype among developers about your project. 

The bottom line is to not underestimate yourself and share your experiences; we all grow when we share! 

Practice Makes Perfect

In my experience, taking the time to practice and record yourself is important. Every time I reviewed my own recording, I found opportunities for improvement. Rehearse your delivery!

I had to understand that there is no “perfect word” to use; there is no better way to explain yourself than when you feel comfortable speaking about the topic. Use language you are comfortable with, and the audience will appreciate your understanding. 

Repeat your talk, stand up and try to feel comfortable while you’re speaking. Become familiar with the sound of your voice and the content flow. Once you feel comfortable enough, deliver to your partner, your family or even close friends. It was a wonderful opportunity to get initial feedback in a friendly environment, which greatly helped me.

The Audience 

Talking to hundreds or even thousands of attendees is a great challenge but can be frightening. Try to remember that all these people are there because they’re interested in the content you created. They are not expecting to become experts after the talk, nor do they want or expect you to fail. Don’t be afraid to find ‘your’ space on the stage so that you feel more comfortable. Always tell the audience that you’re excited to be at the event and looking forward to sharing your knowledge and experience with them. Speak freely, and remember to have fun while you do! 

Own the content; a speech is not a script. Don’t expect to remember every word that you wrote because it will feel very wooden. Try to riff on your content – evolve it every time it’s delivered, sharpening the emphasis of certain sections or dropping in a bit of humor along the way.  Make sure each time you give the speech it’s a unique experience. 

The Conference 

The time has come: I overcame the lack of self-confidence and all the doubts. It was time to polish up the final details before giving the speech. 

First, I found it useful to familiarize myself with the speaking room. If you are not told to stay in the same place (like a lectern or a marked spot on the stage), spend some time walking around the room, looking at the empty chairs, imagining yourself delivering the speech, and breathe slowly and deeply to reduce any anxiety that you feel. 

While delivering a talk is not 100% a conversation, attempt to talk to the audience; don’t focus on the first few rows and forget about the rest of the auditorium. Look at different parts of the audience when you are talking, make eye contact with them and ask questions. If possible, try to make it interactive. 

The last part of the speech usually consists of a question-and-answer section. One of the most common fears is around “what if they ask something I don’t know?” Remember that no one expects you to know everything, so don’t be afraid to recognize you don’t know something. Some questions can be tricky or too long to answer; just calm down and point to the right resources where they can find the answers from the source directly. 

We got many questions, which shocked me because that proved that the audience was interested.  It was fun to answer many questions and interact with the audience. 

Don’t be in a rush, talk about the content and take your time to breathe while you are speaking. Remind yourself you wrote the content, you own the content and nobody was forced to attend your talk; they attended freely because your content is worth it!  

Conclusion 

Overall, my speaking experiences were outstanding! I delivered mine with my former colleague and friend Roberto Carratalá, and we both really enjoyed the experience. We received good feedback, including some improvements to consider for our future speeches. 

I will submit to the next call for papers, whether it is standalone or co-speaking. So get out there and get speaking!

You might have already realized it when looking at our documentation.suse.com portal: the SUSE Best Practices (SBP) series of documentation got a new sibling—and it is growing fast! Yes, I am talking of the Technical Reference Documentation (TRD).

Under the two currently available categories Kubernetes and Linux, we have already published 50+ documents—expect more to be posted during the next few weeks.

Now you might ask: what is the difference between SBPs and TRD? It is easy to explain but takes some reading time 😁, so be prepared.

SUSE Best Practices explained

SBPs provide reliable technical information not covered by the SUSE product documentation. They consolidate the scattered pieces of information, tips and hints, technical notes, and “tribal knowledge” from real-world implementations of and user experience with the SUSE portfolio, which contribute to a successful setup and maintenance of an organization’s IT environment. Since SBPs are topic-oriented and solution-based documents, they should serve as an addition to the user reference guide.

SBPs may cross product boundaries, and may incorporate discussion related to non-SUSE products, where common integration topics crop up. They can include (but are not limited to):

• a specific, non-prevalent but repeatable setup
• the installation of third-party software on top of a SUSE product
• the implementation of a solution consisting of several products or technologies
• a step-by-step procedure
• a newly introduced but proven process or methodology

SPBs aim to save time as they use existing knowledge for further replication. Thus, they should be replicable and adaptable, and they should be sustainable and easy to update. The content of an SBP is NOT written by the documentation team, but by subject matter experts. And these subject matter experts are not necessarily SUSE employees. In fact, we not only welcome but encourage contributions from customers as well as implementation and technology partners. The documentation team then edits, proofreads, finalizes, publishes, and promotes the articles.

Technical Reference Documentation explained

Technical Reference Documentation (TRD) provides recommendations and guidance for the design, implementation and configuration of SUSE products combined with components and products from the portfolio of defined hardware and software partners. The referenced solutions usually target specific scenarios and use cases, and offer a form of blueprints for those.

TRDs are currently classified into one of the following document types:

Getting Started: Basic steps to quickly and easily deploy the one layer of the referenced component of the SUSE portfolio, with generalized pointers to other required elements.

Reference Implementation: Basic steps to deploy the highlighted components of the SUSE portfolio, including generalized pointers to other layers and elements. This is considered an introductory approach and a basis for other tested variations.

Reference Configuration: Basic steps to deploy the layered stack of components from both the SUSE and partner portfolios. This is considered a fundamental basis to demonstrate a specific, tested configuration of components.

Reference Architecture: General steps to deploy and validate the structured solution components from both the SUSE and partner portfolios. This provides a consistent shareable template that consumers can leverage for similar production ready solutions, including design considerations, implementation suggestions and best practices.

Solution Stack: Validated framework guides with SUSE offerings and partner components that leverage the strengths of the combined ecosystem to address the challenges of a broad spectrum of customers.

Enterprise Architectures: Guides that address the business and IT concerns within an organization.

Technical Reference Documentation is currently owned and created by a group of SUSE experts closely collaborating with technical contacts from SUSE’s most important technology partners (IHVs and ISVs). These experts are usually Enterprise or Solution Architects, Technology Strategists, or Partner Engineers. A major part of the TRD is provided by members of the Global Solutions teams working with strategic hardware partners. Contributions to the TRD are also coming from members of the Partners & Alliances and Partner Engineering teams who cooperate with software alliance partners and ISVs. The documentation team mainly takes care of editing and publishing the documents these experts deliver.

And the Oscar goes to …

At this point, it’s time for my acceptance speech. Well—no—don’t worry! But I’d really like to highlight two very special colleagues:

Bryan Gartner and Terry Smith—THANK YOU for having taken over responsibility to deliver the content for this important new series of documentation to our ecosystem, and for being so great to work with.

Disclaimer: The text at hand has not been reviewed by a native speaker. If you find typos or language mistakes, please send them to me (meike.chabowski@suse.com) – or if you like them, just keep them and feed them.

SUSE is excited to be a double platinum sponsor at SAPinsider Vienna EMEA (Nov 15-17, 2022) the premier SAP professional event in EMEA this fall. Join us and our partners to get access to comprehensive education, expert speakers, and exceptional networking to help you master SAP, build on lessons learned, and prepare for new opportunities.

Key Topics Covered

It is a challenging time, and we would like to provide the latest information, innovation, and insights to help your business stay flexible and adaptive in the current environment. Visit our booth and our sessions and learn to:

• Lead the change and enable the promise of SAP S/4HANA
• Secure your SAP environment
• Implement new services faster, more efficiently, and with less risk
• Strengthen business operations and gain real-time access to business insights
• Discover the right cloud strategy for your SAP workloads? Public or Private?
• Explore technologies of the future

Don’t miss the SUSE session

This is a unique opportunity for you to listen to our experts and get advice for your SAP infrastructure. The day, times, and location of the sessions will be published in the session catalog soon.

• Keynote Session with Ivo Totev, Chief Operating Officer, SUSE

We live in unprecedented times where every organization faces new challenges including the increase in global, cybersecurity threats, and increasingly uncertain macroeconomics. In addition, supply chain issues and skill shortages reduce the ability of companies to keep innovating. Lowering costs and maximizing ROI have always been top priorities for executives. Rising interest rates make these priorities even more critical. Ivo Totev, SUSE’s Chief Operating Officer, will discuss how key partners of SAP provide innovative technologies to help benefit from the cloud and fully leverage SAP S/4HANA with the goal to drive business transformation and increase resilience.

• Economic Impact of Moving to SAP S/4HANA

Today more than ever, organizations need to grow revenue ahead of the market, reduce customer turnover and boost employee productivity. But that’s virtually impossible if you face obstacles like inadequate legacy systems or inflexible infrastructures that make it impossible to get the most out of your investment in SAP S/4HANA. Organizations moving to SAP S/4HANA search solutions make their SAP environments more stable, robust, and secure, as well as less maintenance-intensive. Get insights into how you can demonstrate, justify, and realize the tangible value of your IT. Learn from Intel and SUSE how to improve IT productivity, and reduce IT costs and revenue impact.

40min thought leadership session

Speaker: Sven-Olof Ahman (SUSE); Jan Krüger (INTEL)

• SAP in the public cloud: Lessons learned along the journey to the cloud

You are migrating SAP applications to the public cloud. That’s a smart move. After all, the public cloud gives you the speed and flexibility you need, while lowering your capital costs and boosting ROI. But when making the move, be sure to do it quickly and reliably, with little disruption to your business processes. You want real scalability and leverage automation to reduce administrative effort. What are the lessons learned by customers who have already moved to the public cloud? Join Microsoft and SUSE to learn more.

40min thought leadership session

Speaker: Diego Akechi (SUSE), Holger Bruchelt (Microsoft)

• Secure your SAP environment – Improve security and reduce operational risks

The cybersecurity landscape for organizations running SAP systems has shifted significantly over the past year. Protecting against ransomware attacks is an important focus for organizations, however other threats ranked highly include unpatched systems as well as recovery strategies. Join the lesson and learn about best practices for securing your SAP infrastructure. Discover how you can improve security and reduce operational risk, cost-effectively. Ensure business continuity with automation tools, wizards, monitoring, and visualization.

40min Thought leadership session

Speaker: Alan Clark (SUSE), Markus Gürtler (B1-Systems)

• SAP Operational Excellence: From day 0 to day 2

SAP projects, as any other IT Project, have different phases in their lifecycle from the plan to the extension

• • Day-0 stage covers the project plan and the design of SAP systems
  • Day-1 stage covers the installation and setup of the SAP systems
  • Day-2 stage covers the operation of the environment.

And in there will be a day when you will need to face the extension and/or the evolution of this SAP project. SUSE helps organizations to reach SAP Operational Excellence by reducing the costs and risks of the SAP operation from Day 0 to Day 2 and adding value on Day N+1 to expand the SAP environment

I20 session

Speaker: Andreas Jäger, SUSE

• 3 Questions to Help you Define your AI & Digital Strategy with SAP

Artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) are transforming the way in which modern enterprises are evolving today. As companies plan to leverage digital technologies into their enterprise, they begin to ask these three critical questions: 1. How are companies engaging these solutions for a more intelligent enterprise? 2. What is the impact of these technologies on the business? and 3. How do I drive value to my business through these technologies? Join us to discuss the impact of AI, ML, and IoT on the evolving enterprise and how these digital technologies are enabling a future-proof ecosystem for companies.

I20 session

Speaker: Alan Clarke (SUSE), Hussein Keilani (Fujitsu)

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications is endorsed by SAP

The idea behind Endorsed Apps is to make it super easy for SAP customers to get up and running with SAP. It helps to easily identify the top-rated partners and apps that are verified to deliver outstanding value. These solutions are tested and premium certified by SAP with added security, in-depth testing and measurements against benchmark results.

Find more information on the SAP Store

Contact Us

If you have any additional questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at sapalliance@suse.com

We look forward to seeing you at SAPinsider Vienna EMEA (Nov 15-17, 2022)!

As we celebrate our 30th anniversary this year, we launched the inaugural SUSE Customer Awards to praise the success of our customers. We received 20 nominations for our customers in EMEA across two categories: 

• Digital Trendsetter – for the most innovative application of SUSE’s solutions 
• Excellence in Business Transformation – for outstanding business results achieved as a result of SUSE’s solutions. 

The winners were announced yesterday at the SUSE Exchange events in London and Munich, where technology executives discussed how global enterprises are tackling enterprise container management and cloud native security challenges. 

Adam Spearing, SUSE’s Chief Revenue Officer, announced Arm as the winner in the Excellence in Business Transformation category, and Ivo Totev, SUSE’s Chief Operating Officer, presented SICK AG with an award in the Digital Trendsetter category. 

Learn more about the winners: 

Excellence in Business Transformation EMEA – Arm

Headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, Arm is a world-leading semiconductor intellectual property (IP) designer. The company’s energy-efficient processor designs and software platforms have enabled advanced computing in more than 230 billion chips to date, securely powering products from the sensor to the smartphone and the supercomputer. 

Arm uses SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro (SLE Micro), as well as SUSE Rancher for its IT architecture. The tech stack enables Arm’s ecosystem and partners to build products and solutions with an enterprise supported Linux distribution, moving development from silos on personal machines to company-wide collaborative efforts.  

Arm’s partners are bringing a rich diversity of hardware and software solutions to the market which are deployed in cloud data centers, HPC systems, 5G networks, edge gateways, IoT applications and beyond. 

Digital Trendsetter EMEA – SICK AG 

SICK AG is an established German sensor and application solution provider and a global technology and market leader. From factory automation to logistics automation and process automation, the company’s intelligent sensors create the perfect basis for controlling processes securely and efficiently, protecting individuals from accidents, and preventing damage to the environment. As an example, SICK sensors ensure people and robots work together safely in production facilities, suitcases are loaded onto the right plane at the airport, and energy generators do not exceed permissible emission levels. 

SICK has been a SUSE customer for years, using SUSE products like SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Rancher for corporate IT services. Since 2021, SICK is also using SLE Micro, an immutable OS for containerized workloads, for its industrial automation offering towards customers. This enables a new level of IT management for industrial automation solutions on the shop floor. 

“In typical industrial shop floor environments, operational technologies to control automation systems are very difficult to integrate into IT systems. Using SLE Micro, k3s, Rancher and NeuVector in our industrial solutions bridges the gap between shop floor and IT. For our customers, above components allow for enterprise-IT-grade standardization, security and compliance throughout the whole life cycle of the automation solution.” said Dr Stefan Odermatt, Senior Vice President Global Business Center Systems Research & Development at SICK who received the award in Munich in person. 

Congratulations to Arm and SICK AG on their achievements.  

As part of the winner’s package, Dr. Stefan Odermatt of SICK AG, and Andrew Wafaa of Arm both received an exclusive pass to next year’s SUSECON, where we look forward to seeing them on stage.

As we prepare for our next conference, we invite you to watch the highlights of this year’s edition. (https://susecon.com). It’s 100% online and free.

Many enterprises rearchitect their infrastructure and processes for SAP S/4HANA, seeking opportunities to reduce costs, eliminate downtime and realize faster time-to-value. A study was conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of SUSE and Intel®, and published in August 2022. “The Total Economic Impact^TM Of SUSE Solutions For SAP Environments Powered by Intel Technology” presents Forrester’s findings concerning the savings and business benefits organizations can achieve with the SUSE and Intel server platforms.

In the Forrester study, the experiences of interviewees and survey respondents were aggregated into a single composite organization, a global manufacturing firm using SAP S/4HANA in a private cloud deployment with 5,000 employees. Benefits of the SUSE and Intel server platform include improved IT productivity, reduced IT costs, and quantified business impact.

Reduced operational and maintenance costs

Manual installation and configuration impact how quickly applications can be deployed. In the Forrester study, “After the investment in the SUSE and Intel server platform, the organizations were able to reduce the time it took their IT departments to deploy SAP landscapes, which enabled faster time-to-value of SAP applications.”

Plus, SAP administrators’ routine maintenance workloads were reduced, and they were able to “ensure better data availability and faster query response times for their business users.” Further, they could “improve SAP system uptime and save on third-party system management tools.”

Reduced business outages

Maintaining uptime is critical to any business, especially those whose clients and partners rely on real-time data exchange. Applying server patches without rebooting can eliminate the need for IT to spend valuable time on maintenance, improving an organization’s business agility.

The Forrester study considered the impact of outages. Before implementing the SUSE and Intel platform, interviewees and respondents experienced “up to 12 business outages associated with their SAP environments per year.” Yet Forrester notes that the composite organization “reduces the number of SAP system outages and unlocks opportunities for additional revenue streams.”

Improved security

Implementing the SUSE and Intel platforms provides new data and platform security capabilities. For example, SUSE provides SAP-specific security features like HANA Firewall which integrates antivirus with SAP or SAP HANA-hardening guides.

Ability to retire legacy tools

Before moving to the SUSE and Intel server platforms, the interviewee and respondent organizations managed their SAP environments using a variety of “third-party tools and processes, and tools provided by their previous operating systems and platform vendors.”

Maintaining legacy tools carries a cost. The respondents reported that the cost “averaged out to $148,207 per year before implementing the SUSE and Intel server platform.” In fact, after implementing the SUSE and Intel platform, they experienced “an average of 16.2 percent reduction in the cost of these legacy tools”.

The Forrester study provides real insights into the benefits of the SUSE and Intel server platform

Choosing a platform for SAP S/4HANA infrastructure requires consideration of IT productivity, potential downtime, cost, and flexibility. Over time, the impact on a business needs to be considered and clearly understood. In fact, the study showed organizations stand to gain ROI of 120% by moving to the SUSE and Intel platforms.

 Read the full Forrester study to gain real insight into the return on investment organizations can achieve by deploying SAP S/4HANA on the SUSE and Intel server platform.

Download: “The Total Economic Impact^TM Of SUSE Solutions For SAP Environments Powered by Intel Technology”

The Total Economic Impact^TM Of SUSE Solutions For SAP Environments Powered by Intel Technology, August 2022

A Forrester Total Economic Impact^TM Study Commissioned By SUSE and Intel

This year’s Microsoft Ignite 2022 (October 12-14)  is a hybrid event, showcasing digital and in person content covering themes of AI and automation, cloud security, and business agility. SUSE is an exhibitor sponsor at this year’s event.

The content theme for our virtual booth is ‘Protect everything, everyone, everywhere’ and includes solution information and offers on SAP Cloud Migration, NeuVector, Rancher, High Availability and Trento. View the video: ‘SUSE’s Five Tips to Transform your Azure Experience’ to gain insight on how SUSE helps customers  optimize their Azure cloud experience.   Take advantage of the  available downloadable content including white papers and customer success stories. Don’t forget to rank your favorite SUSE parody video and win a SUSE chameleon. Additionally, we’re offering great incentives and opportunities to engage with our sellers virtually.

Register now at www.register.ignite.microsoft.com.

I’m pleased to share that once again this quarter G2, the world’s largest and most trusted tech marketplace, has recognized our solutions in its 2022 Fall Report. We received a total of 15 badges across our business units for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), SLE Desktop, SLE Real Time, and Rancher – including High Performer badges for almost each of our products – as well as a badge for the openSUSE community with Leap. 

Last month, we celebrated 30 years of service to our customers, partners and the open source communities and it’s wonderful to keep the celebrations going with this recognition by our peers. Growing from 2 badges last quarter to 15 badges reinforces the depth and breadth of our strong product portfolio as well as the dedication that our team provides for our customers.  

Tacking on to the latest badges that SLES received in July, SLES received several additional badges, including, Momentum Leader and Leader in the Server Virtualization category; High Performer in Infrastructure as a Service category; and awarded three badges in the Mid-Market Server Virtualization category for Best Relationship, Best Support and High Performer.  

In addition, SLE Desktop was awarded two High Performer badges in the Mid-Market Operating System and Operating System categories. SLE Real Time also received a High Performer badge in the Operating System category. While the openSUSE community distribution Leap was recognized as Fastest Implementation in the Operating System category. It’s clear that our Business Critical Linux solutions continue to be the cornerstone of success for many of our customers as well as that we continue to provide excellent service for the open source community.  

Similarly, as the use of hybrid, multi-cloud and cloud-native infrastructures grows, many of our customers are looking to containers. For their business success, they look to SUSE Rancher, which has been the leading multi-cluster management for nearly a decade and has one of the strongest adoption rates in the industry. 

G2 awarded SUSE Rancher with several badges, including three badges in the Mid-Market Container Management category for the Most Implementable, Fastest Implementation and Easiest Admin as well as two High Performer badges in the Container Management and the Small Business Container Management categories.  

Here’s what some of our customers have to say: 

“Given the wide variety of applications we run today, it is essential that we have consistent security standards. SUSE Rancher provides us with the tools we need to do that. We can work with our security teams to centrally define how users are allowed to interact with managed Kubernetes clusters and how containerized workloads should be run. Once policies are defined, we can instantly assign them to any Kubernetes cluster.”  

– Jan Ove Steppat, Open Source Infrastructure Architect, CLAAS KGaA mbH 

“Improved agility was a critical piece in our decision making. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server gives us the ability to lay down applications much quicker than in a closed Unix environment and gives us an alternative to more costly, proprietary applications.” 

– Marshall Lew, Senior Director of IT, Platform Engineering and Network Services at Office Depot. 

Providing our customers with solutions that they know they can rely on and trust is critical to the work we do every day. These badges are a direct response from customer feedback and product reviews and underscore our ability to serve the needs of our customers for all of our solutions. I’m looking forward to seeing what new badges our team will be rewarded with in the future as a result of their excellent work!