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SUSE Steps Up to Support Innovative ARM Solutions for Customers

SUSE providing first commercial enterprise Linux distribution optimized for ARM-based 64-bit servers

NEW DELHI / BENGALURU, India – October 28, 2016 – SUSE®, today unveiled SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for ARM, the first commercial enterprise Linux distribution optimized for servers based on the 64-bit ARM®v8-A architecture. SUSE’s fully supported enterprise Linux will allow hardware and software providers to create and provide innovative ARM-based solutions more quickly for enterprise IT customers. In 2015, SUSE announced collaboration with partners to bring SUSE Enterprise Storage to devices powered by 64-bit ARM technology. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for ARM is a major step toward delivery of ARM support for software-defined storage systems and other solutions.

SUSE Steps Up to Support Innovative ARM Solutions for Customers

“SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for ARM will give customers more choice, flexibility and opportunities to cost effectively upgrade their business processes,” said Ralf Flaxa, SUSE President of Engineering. “It does that by giving our hardware and software partners an established, rock-solid open source foundation on which to build efficient ARM-based infrastructure solutions. And they will be able to do it faster than ever before.”

Lakshmi Mandyam, Senior Marketing Director of Server Program at ARM, said, “The ARM server market enables innovation and choice for solution providers across a variety of workloads. SUSE has responded to customers demanding workload-optimized server platforms that can radically expand what is possible in modern data centers. The commitment from SUSE to support specific ARMv8-A features, coupled with their enterprise-class product support, will accelerate time to deployment for the entire ARM server ecosystem.”

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for ARM will bring the same benefits and interaction to the ARM ecosystem that SUSE partners providing x86-64, Power and z Systems solutions already experience. Highlights include:

o Advanced tools to more quickly compile, package, and deploy Linux solutions for systems based on the ARMv8-A architecture

o Storage optimization leveraging ARM System-on-Chip features

o A foundation for network integration and support for encryption and compression engines or custom FPGA features

o Enhanced security for commercial workloads sharing certified development processes with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 for x86-64 which provides the highest security level for commercial operating systems via Common Criteria EAL4+ support

Initial solutions being developed by SUSE partners include large-scale storage, high performance computing and networking systems.

“Cavium and SUSE have worked closely in validating full support for the ThunderX® Workload Optimized server processor family with this release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server,” said Larry Wikelius, Vice President of the Software Ecosystem and Solutions Group at Cavium, Inc. “SUSE has a distinguished track record of leadership in Linux, and this release ensures a rich feature set and application optimization for systems leveraging Cavium’s 48-core, high performance, high memory bandwidth processors along with industry-leading customer support. This combination is ideal for accelerating the delivery of innovative solutions in the large system server, telco and storage markets that Cavium serves.”

Al Gillen, IDC Group Vice President of Software Development and Open Source, said, “ARM processor technology is gaining traction as an alternative to x86 server-class processors, not only for servers and IoT devices, but also for system categories like storage, networking and high performance computing. The release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for ARM and its support for multiple ARM technology partners establishes a solid foundation for open innovation and growth of a diverse ecosystem of solutions.”

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for ARM will be available by the end of the year, as will 64-bit ARM support for SUSE Enterprise Storage. Solution provider partners will be able to choose from a menu of standard SUSE Premium Support options to support their own product development, test, and customer support. For more information, visit www.suse.com/products/arm.

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SUSE, a pioneer in open source software, provides reliable, interoperable Linux, cloud infrastructure and storage solutions that give enterprises greater control and flexibility. More than 20 years of engineering excellence, exceptional service and an unrivaled partner ecosystem power the products and support that help our customers manage complexity, reduce cost, and confidently deliver mission-critical services. The lasting relationships we build allow us to adapt and deliver the smarter innovation they need to succeed – today and tomorrow. For more information, visit www.suse.com.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Provides Operating Environment for SAP HANA®, Express Edition

Developers on Mac OS and Windows or in the cloud can more quickly and easily create new applications for the SAP HANA platform with SUSE Linux Enterprise-powered virtual machines

BENGALURU, India – September 20, 2016 – SUSE® today announced SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP® Applications is now available free as part of a new offering: SAP HANA®, express edition. The combination of the leading Linux platform for SAP solutions and SAP HANA in a streamlined package is designed to allow Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X users to develop new SAP HANA-based applications more easily and conveniently.

This streamlined version of SAP HANA can be downloaded and installed on laptops, desktops or servers, either as a virtual machine based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications or as a binary installation package for all supported Linux environments with Intel chipsets. It can also be accessed in the cloud for an additional cloud infrastructure fee.

“The speed of change in today’s data center can overtake even the most-vigilant IT staff,” said Naji Almahmoud, Vice President of Cloud and Software Alliances for SUSE. “Businesses need to be agile, and the simplicity of the express edition of SAP HANA means developers can more quickly and cost effectively provide tools so enterprise customers can be agile. It will allow them to take better advantage of the power of SAP HANA to meet change head-on and make better decisions for their businesses.”

SUSE announced the inclusion of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications in SAP HANA, express edition, at SAP TechEd® being held Sept. 19-23 in Las Vegas, where the company is exhibiting in booth 114.

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SUSE, a pioneer in open source software, provides reliable, interoperable Linux, cloud infrastructure and storage solutions that give enterprises greater control and flexibility. More than 20 years of engineering excellence, exceptional service and an unrivaled partner ecosystem power the products and support that help our customers manage complexity, reduce cost, and confidently deliver mission-critical services. The lasting relationships we build allow us to adapt and deliver the smarter innovation they need to succeed – today and tomorrow. For more information, visit www.suse.com.
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LuLu Group Leans on SUSE for High Availability and Lower Costs, Improving Response to Opportunities and Threats

With 124 retail outlets and 700,000 daily shoppers, LuLu Group migrated from UNIX to SUSE Linux as platform for SAP solutions, reducing SAP landscape operating costs at least 20 percent

BENGALURU, India – August 29, 2016 – LuLu Group International, a retailer with 124 outlets and operations in 31 countries, has migrated to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications to help its business managers faster identify and respond to new opportunities and competitive threats.

Since starting its retail journey in the early 1990s, LuLu Group has grown its retail activities aggressively. Headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, the company enjoys a 32 percent market share in its territories and welcomes more than 700,000 shoppers daily. As LuLu Group drove its rapid growth, the pressure to keep business systems working optimally also rose, leading the company to migrate its SAP for Retail landscape from Solaris to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications. When LuLu Group wanted to improve the speed of business reporting and analytics by deploying the SAP HANA database, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications was again its platform of choice, combining high availability and performance with low total cost of ownership.

“We decided to deploy SAP HANA both for business intelligence and as the operational database for our complete SAP landscape,” said Madhav Rao, CIO of LuLu Group. “Given our experience of the availability, flexibility, scalability and ease of management of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, this was the logical platform on which to deploy our new SAP HANA software.”

Shiju Shanmughan, Network and Infrastructure Manager at LuLu Group, said, “We knew that the relationship between SAP and SUSE® is very close, and that SAP uses the SUSE operating system for its own development on Linux, so it seemed to be the best option. The deployment went very smoothly, and we handled it largely with our in-house team, using the excellent SUSE documentation. Thanks to this complete, end-to-end workflow for the installation of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, our team was able to save valuable time throughout the implementation process – helping to ensure that we went live on time. We also support the OS in-house, escalating any more-complex queries to the experts on the SUSE support team.”

Taking advantage of the bundled SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension solution has enabled LuLu Group to ensure extremely high availability for its SAP landscape in the two years since initial deployment. The company also uses a special kernel-tune option to improve SAP performance; this protects less-used memory from being paged out and used by the Linux file system, keeping it available for SAP applications.

With both its core SAP ERP landscape and its new SAP HANA landscape running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, LuLu Group enjoys optimal performance, easy management, seamless scalability and low cost of ownership. As LuLu Group continues its expansion, the added speed of analysis provided by SAP HANA in-memory technology will help the company’s business managers to identify new opportunities and competitive threats faster, and determine the optimal response.

“Our initial migration from Solaris to the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform reduced our total operational costs for the SAP landscape by at least 20 percent,” Rao said. “However, the increases in performance and availability are more important to the business because these help us to ensure excellent customer service at all times. We trust SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to provide extreme stability for our mission-critical SAP ERP and SAP HANA landscapes.”

Read the complete story at https://www.suse.com/success/stories/lulu-group.html. For more information on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, see https://www.suse.com/products/sles-for-sap.

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Mirantis Partners with SUSE to Deliver Complete Enterprise Linux Support

SUSE becomes Mirantis strategic Linux partner

BENGALURU, India – August 10, 2016 – Mirantis, the pure-playOpenStack Company, and SUSE®, a pioneer in Linux and open source solutions, today announced a joint collaboration to offer Mirantis OpenStack customers support for enterprise Linux. Both companies will collaborate technically to establish SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as a development platform for use with Mirantis OpenStack. The companies will also collaborate to support Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS, making Mirantis a one-stop shop for OpenStack support on the leading enterprise Linux distributions.

SUSE and Mirantis will explore collaboration options to further optimize SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Mirantis OpenStack and contribute all changes to the respective Open Source projects.

Mirantis offers a pure-play OpenStack solution by offering customers the flexibility to choose which operating system, and even hypervisors, they want based on workload or skill set. Mirantis will now offer support, patches and updates for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as well as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS online. Priority subscriptions are available in single or three-year terms and include security and other updates plus 24x7x365 email and phone-based support – with guaranteed one-hour response time.

Support is available for current versions of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, RHEL and CentOS.

“Many of our larger customers run two or three different Linux flavors. Now OpenStack users can get support for their major Linux distributions in one place from Mirantis,” said Mirantis, Co-Founder and CMO, Boris Renski. “Thousands of enterprises worldwide across major industries count on SUSE because they offer enterprise-grade, high reliability, bet-your-business service level agreements. Partnering with SUSE gives Mirantis customers access to this support as they build their private cloud.”

“At SUSE, we believe in openness and choice for our customers and our partners,” said Michael Miller, President of Strategy, Alliances and Marketing at SUSE. “That’s why SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the most interoperable and robust platform for mission-critical computing and the smart choice for OpenStack private clouds. And now Mirantis customers can benefit from SUSE’s enterprise-grade Linux solutions for their private cloud.”

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To learn more, visit www.mirantis.com/partners/suse.

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About Mirantis

Mirantis is the pure play OpenStack company, delivering all the software, services, training, and support needed for running OpenStack. More customers rely on Mirantis than on any other company to get to production deployment of OpenStack at scale. Mirantis is among the top three companies worldwide in contributing open source software to OpenStack, and has helped build and deploy some of the largest OpenStack clouds in the world, at companies such as AT&T, Saudi Telecom, Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Symantec, Telstra and Volkswagen. Mirantis is venture-backed by August Capital, Dell Ventures, Ericsson, Goldman Sachs, Intel, Insight Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Siguler Guff & Co., and WestSummit Capital, with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Follow us on Twitter at @mirantisit.

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SUSE Joins Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance and Test Drive Program

SUSE expands availability of cloud-based Linux and high performance computing with the only supported enterprise Linux HPC workload on Microsoft Azure public cloud

BENGALURU, India – July 7, 2016 – SUSE®, has joined the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance as partof its ongoing strategy to enable customers to quickly respond to changing business needs. SUSE delivers cloud-based SUSE Linux Enterprise Server . including automated updates, to enterprise customers using the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. In addition, SUSE is now part of the Microsoft Test Drive program, so customers can easily and instantly evaluate SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for High Performance Computing via the Azure Marketplace for free. SUSE provides the only commercially supported Linux for HPC available via Microsoft Test Drive.

This collaboration expands access to the security and reliability of SUSE’s enterprise Linux solutions to the Microsoft Cloud and highlights SUSE’s long-term commitment to providing customers with on-premise, private cloud and public cloud solutions that give them the flexibility to stay ahead of market demands.

“With SUSE’s integration into the Enterprise Cloud Alliance, organizations have improved access to the reliability and security of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server – including unique workloads such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for High Performance Computing – on the Azure cloud,” said Naji Almahmoud, Vice President of Cloud and Software Alliances for SUSE. “SUSE’s growth on Azure means more options for customers. It is yet another indicator of SUSE’s commitment to helping enterprise customers be successful.”

Nicole Herskowitz, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Corp., said, “The Enterprise Cloud Alliance provides the opportunity to enhance our strategic relationship with SUSE and increase awareness of SUSE Linux Enterprise for customers searching for best-in-class enterprise solutions. SUSE is one of the first open source vendors to join the Microsoft Partner Network and the Enterprise Cloud Alliance and provide the benefits of open source technology in Microsoft Azure.”

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on Azure is a proven platform that provides superior reliability and security for cloud computing. This versatile Linux platform seamlessly integrates with Azure cloud services to deliver an easily manageable cloud environment. More than 11,400 applications are certified and supported on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on the growing network of global data centers with Azure, including Microsoft Government Cloud. With built-in site replication and disaster recovery, customers experience performance, security and reliability comparable to on-premise alternatives.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for HPC is the only supported enterprise Linux for HPC available on Microsoft Azure, and it is the only one supported with tools like SUSE Studio for quick and easy image creation and SUSE Manager for monitoring and managing Linux virtual machines using Microsoft Systems Center. SUSE has been building solutions with Microsoft Azure since its launch in 2012 and collaborating with Microsoft Corp. since 2006, serving more than 1,000 joint customers. The SUSE test drive on Azure can be found here. For more information about SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on Azure, visit www.suse.com/azure

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