SUSE + Akamai: A Recipe for Success in Scaling SUSE’s Growing Global Business

2024 has been a pivotal year for SUSE. We’ve introduced new capabilities such as SUSE AI and streamlined Observability into our SUSE Rancher Prime portfolio. We’ve entered into the SaaS market with SUSE Cloud Observability. And we’ve doubled down on our commitment to open source and continue to provide our customers with freedom to choose within their technology estates, a rare option in today’s landscape. 

As SUSE continues to evolve and experience growth, we’re committed to ensuring our customers and partners receive the best possible service. Today, I’m excited to announce our partnership with Akamai, a global leader in content delivery and security.

The collaboration between SUSE and Akamai holds immense promise for the future. By leveraging Akamai’s industry-leading content delivery network (CDN) capabilities, SUSE can enhance its global reach and scalability, ensuring that its software solutions are readily available to customers and partners worldwide.

This partnership will enable SUSE to:

• Accelerate software delivery: Akamai’s CDN will optimize the distribution of SUSE’s software packages, updates, and patches, resulting in faster download speeds and improved user experiences.
• Enhance global availability: With Akamai’s extensive network, SUSE can ensure high availability and performance for its software solutions, regardless of geographic location.
• Scale to meet growing demand: As SUSE’s customer and partner base continues to expand globally, Akamai’s scalable infrastructure will enable the company to meet increasing demand for its software solutions.
• Strengthen security: Akamai’s security solutions will help protect SUSE’s software delivery process from cyberattacks and ensure the integrity of its software downloads.

As a growing business, SUSE had been considering making the transition to the market leading CDN provider for a while. This decision was accelerated by circumstances relating to our previous provider, which are affecting many users and vendors that it provided CDN services to. However, out of this situation has come a great opportunity to offer our customers and partners an improved experience. We understand that in today’s fast-paced world, speed, reliability, and security are paramount. Our new partnership with Akamai underscores our commitment to these values and our dedication to supporting our customers’ success.

Overall, this partnership represents a significant step forward for SUSE and its commitment to delivering exceptional software solutions and experiences to its global customer and partner base. The future looks bright for SUSE as it continues to innovate and scale its business with the support of Akamai’s powerful CDN technology.