Sebastian Martinez
By: Sebastian Martinez

October 17, 2024 11:29 pm

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Automated Linux Patch Management for More Secure Infrastructure

Maintaining a secure Linux environment is more important than ever as cyber threats continue to evolve. Keeping systems patched and updated protects business-critical services, helping you to avoid cyberattacks and maintain compliance with industry regulations.  Yet, many organizations face challenges in executing patch management efficiently, especially when minimizing disruptions is critical. The answer lies […]

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Sebastian Martinez
By: Sebastian Martinez

May 10, 2023 1:12 pm

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Solving the patching paradox challenge: How important is it to enforce a security policy in a SAP environment

A secure SAP platform can't be understood without a patched and updated SAP environment. Vulnerabilities pose a significant risk to an organization's operations, and patching is crucial to maintain system security and stability, so patching and updating software is always a top priority. However, the reality of patching complex systems like SAP differs from patching […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

October 11, 2022 4:42 pm

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SAP HANA Cluster – automated OS patching with SUSE Manager and Salt states

The following article has been contributed by Bo Jin, Sales Engineer at SUSE and Linux Consultant.     Challenge and motivation SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications is not just a great product for running SAP workloads. SUSE also provides best practice guides for building up reliable SAP HANA SR high availability […]

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By: Jared Matkin

June 7, 2018 4:58 pm

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SUSE Ready to Heat Things Up at Cisco Live!

  There are plenty of reasons to be at Cisco Live this year. Technical education, thought leadership and partner collaboration,  not to mention Florida sunshine (or possibly monsoon rains), humidity, Universal Studios, and Cake (the band, not the kind you eat. Yeah, we’d forgotten about them, too). It’s all happening at […]

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By: Michael Tabron

April 25, 2018 3:08 pm

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SUSE Sponsors IBM Systems Technical University in Orlando

For the nearly three years that I've been at SUSE, I've had the privilege of participating in five different IBM Systems Technical University events in Europe and the US. It's always been a great opportunity not only to highlight the latest SUSE innovations available for the IBM Power platform but also to talk to IBMers, […]

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By: SUSE

May 29, 2017 2:34 pm

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Upstream Live Patching — Are We There Yet?

Year 2014. SUSE and Red Hat submit their live patching solutions to upstream -- kGraft and kpatch. A discussion between developers on a common implementation takes place at Linux Plumbers conference in Dusseldorf. Year 2015. Linus Torvalds merges their effort to the mainline kernel. The version number of the kernel is promoted to 4.0 […]

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By: SUSE

April 27, 2017 3:25 pm

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Keep your SAP systems rolling with SUSE Live Patching

[embed width="575" height="323"]https://youtu.be/_ItWevaF2Ag?t=28[/embed] I recently saw a Facebook post showing a motorized toy train on a wooden track made up of four interlocking arcs that formed a semi-circle. Over the track was a robotic arm that repeatedly assessed the location of the train and then moved a section of the […]

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By: SUSE

March 27, 2017 2:59 pm

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Live Patching – Recent Security Updates

This is supposed to be the first blog in the blog series on the topic of “rebootless” Linux kernel live patching, achieved with SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching. And before I have a chance to get you hooked, you are about to hit the back button of your browser, because (history has told you) […]

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By: SUSE

August 17, 2016 7:35 am

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Band-Aids fix everything

At least that’s what my five year old daughter thinks. She’s taken up the role of resident doctor in our household and takes her job very seriously. Bump or bruise – she’s waiting in the wings with an ice pack. Scratch or cut – she has a Band-Aid ready (usually before you). […]

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