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- SUSE’s Michael Miller and IBM’s Ross Mauri on the Future of Linux Innovation
- Elastic Pricing and More – News for LinuxONE Customers
- New Online Cloud Marketplace for the IBM Power Systems LC Line
- POWER8, Cloud, and Juju Charms – A Compelling Story
- Neo4j is Now Available on POWER8
- McObject and IBM Set New Records for Speed and Stability for Capital Markets
- Linux Foundation Project Advances Real-Time Linux
- IBM Brings Apache Spark’s Analytics Power to Linux and z Systems Servers
- The KVM Hypervisor Extends Familiar Tools to Linux on the Mainframe
- IBM Helps Prepare Clients for the Growing API Economy
- Reducing Business Risk and Increasing ROI with Enterprise Fraud Analytics
- The Enterprise Big Data and Analytics Platform of Scale: IBM z Systems
LINUX AND KVM EVENTS
- Unleashing the Full Potential of Linux and Open Technologies to Fuel New Innovation – Watch the Video
- Doug Balog’s Red Hat Summit 2015 Keynote Available on Demand
- Red Hat Announces Dates for 2016 Red Hat Summit
LINUX SUCCESS STORIES
- HR Group Delivers Instant Sales and Stock Analytics with SAP HANA on IBM Power
- Earth Signal – Helping Clients Strike Oil with Ultra-Fast, Ultra-Dense Computing
- Site Ox Takes Cloud Services to New Heights with IBM Power Systems
- Key Information Systems Tackles Cloud Demands with IBM Power Systems
- Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Transforms Online and Mobile Banking Systems
- Taking Linux in the Enterprise to a New Level
- Foedus Takes Clients to the Next Level with Ultra Performing ERP Powered by IBM
- IBM Power Systems and ZTEsoft: Open Innovation for Better Service
INSIDE LINUX AT IBM
- Join the Fastest Growing Channel at IBM with LinuxONE
- IBM LinuxONE Now on Twitter
- IBM Combines Modern Web Development with the Security, Reliability and Performance of the IBM Mainframe
- Unleashing the Full Potential of Linux
- Agile and Cost-Effective Mobile with Linux on z Systems
- LinuxONE Systems and Solutions Briefs
- Delivering Business Agility with Open Source Solutions on IBM LinuxONE and z Systems
- UrbanCode Deploy, Docker and Linux on z Systems – Connecting All the Dots
- The Advantages of Using Linux and Open Source Solutions
- IBM z Systems, Linux and Cloud Demo
- More Hypervisor Options! New Open Source Virtualization Hypervisor
INSIDE IBM'S LINUX PARTNERS
- 2015 OpenStack User Survey Provides a Snapshot of Users’ Attitudes and Deployments
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Be Available on Microsoft Azure
- Beta Preview of SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6
- SUSE Unveils Training Advances to Boost User Effectiveness and Value
| | LINUX NEWS | SUSE’s Michael Miller and IBM’s Ross Mauri on the Future of Linux Innovation
The history between SUSE and the IBM mainframe goes back more than 15 years, observed Michael Miller, SUSE’s Vice President of Global Alliances, Marketing and Product Management, and Ross Mauri, General Manager, IBM z Systems, during a keynote conversation at SUSECon 2015. Today, 28% of the IBM installed mainframe capacity around the world runs Linux, it is in 82 of the top 100 clients around the world, and it has been growing at a 45% compound growth rate over the last decade. The bottom line, Mauri said, is that Linux is a phenomenon that has changed the world, is growing rapidly everywhere, and it is in enterprise and in mainframe computing, Mauri said.
IBM and SUSE are continuing their joint technology innovation. Recently, said Mauri, IBM rolled out the new LinuxONE product line, a whole new Linux-focused high-end system that can scale up and scale out with all the security, capacity, and performance IBM clients have come to expect; produced its own KVM distribution for IBM z Systems; and also introduced new community clouds to enable easier access to Linux on the mainframe by developers and university students.
The companies are also continuing to collaborate on the business side, said Miller. With the new LinuxONE systems, IBM introduced a new elastic pricing model for for IBM hardware and software, and SUSE will be embracing that elastic pricing model as well to enable a complete solution. And, in terms of community, the joint innovation continues as well. Among other ongoing joint efforts, there is the new Open Mainframe Project, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project of which SUSE and IBM are cofounders. “We hope more and more of the community joins us as we explore new technology innovations that can serve our mutual customers and really push things forward for their businesses,” said Mauri.
To watch an on-demand replay of the keynote, go here.
Elastic Pricing and More – News for LinuxONE Customers
The new IBM LinuxONE portfolio provides flexibility in pricing and resources that allow enterprises to pay for what they use and scale up quickly when their business grows.
In a new SUSE Conversations blog, Meike Chabowski, Product Marketing Manager for Enterprise Linux Servers at SUSE, writes about IBM and SUSE’s longstanding partnership and how the companies work together to innovate technology and business solutions to address evolving business-critical enterprise needs while controlling IT infrastructure and budget. “We are announcing a new pricing model to help organization unleash the power and potential of Open Source solutions on the mainframe that we call Elastic Pricing. Elastic pricing allows organizations to quickly and cost-effectively realize the benefits of this new solution with pay-as-you-go pricing based on resources consumption,” explains Chabowski.
Read the blog here.
For more information about LinuxONE, go here.
New Online Cloud Marketplace for the IBM Power Systems LC Line
IBM has opened up a new online cloud marketplace for its new line of IBM Power8-based Linux servers – the Power LC (Linux cluster) Line, which was introduced last month. The new Power Systems LC servers are the first to be based on technologies and development efforts contributed by OpenPOWER Foundation partners. The Power Systems LC servers are offered in three different variations: the Power Systems S812LC, the Power Systems S822LC for commercial computing, and the Power Systems S822LC for high performance computing.
“The LC line of offerings is much more than the systems themselves. They will be delivered with a client experience that is common and comfortable for Linux clients. In 4Q, these systems will be purchasable on the web,” notes Stefanie Chiras, Director and Business Line Executive, Scale-out Power Systems at IBM Systems and Technology Group, in her blog post, titled, “Experience IBM Power Systems in a whole new way.”
In additional blogs and articles, the impact of the new Power Systems LC line of servers is discussed.
“How companies ingest, mine, manage and leverage this data can unlock unlimited possibilities and opportunities for both the business and the customer. But, we cannot emphasize enough that without the right underpinning infrastructure, a once galloping enterprise can be left in the dust by those acting on their data – fast. That’s why today IBM has furthered its commitment to powerful and cognitive systems of insight, unveiling a whole new Linux class of IBM Power Systems designed for clusters and clouds: the LC Line of servers,” notes Doug Balog, General Manager of IBM Power Systems, in a recent blog post, titled “Introducing the all new Power Systems LC Line of servers.”
Read more about the new LC line in blog posts by Ptak Associates: IBM Power Systems LC: Buy On-Line with Faster Performance, Lower Cost Than x86 Systems! and Ubuntu Insights: Ubuntu with IBM Power Systems LC Models for Big Data.
And, check out the new online cloud marketplace for the Power Systems LC line here.
POWER8, Cloud, and Juju Charms – A Compelling Story
A new developerWorks blog post looks at the benefits of POWER combined with Juju Charms.
“Juju certainly isn’t the world’s best kept secret on quickly-and-easily modeling and bringing services to the Cloud, but what may be a more closely kept secret is that because IBM POWER8 supports Ubuntu, the power of POWER, coupled with the magic of Charms, brings open source cloud services modeling and orchestration to the world’s premier open server platform! Consequently, whether you know about Juju and Charms, but not POWER, or vice-versa, you will find an unbeatable combination by combining the two,” Bob Dick writes.
To access the blog, go here.
And for a white paper on automating the deployment of IBM Power Systems solutions with Juju Charms, go here.
Neo4j is Now Available on POWER8
Neo Technology, creator of the Neo4j graph database, has formed a partnership with IBM to offer Neo4j on IBM POWER8. This partnership offers a number of benefits to enterprises by combining real-time graph processing with the capabilities of IBM hardware to scale up.
As a leading graph database, Neo4j helps business leaders manage larger volumes of data and generate insights from their data relationships, as well as act on those insights in real time. However, applying those insights in real time at the point of touch requires the ability to support extremely high transaction capacities with massive volumes of data at scale. With this partnership, enterprises can now overcome their big data challenges both with Neo4j to extract meaningful, real-time insights from data relationships, and with POWER8 that allows them to scale their graphs to massive proportions. IBM Power Systems can provide up to 56 terabytes of extended memory space with CAPI flash architecture on a single machine, accommodating graphs of never-before-seen size and scale.
For more perspective, read articles from Datanami, TechCrunch, Cloud Computing Today, and ZDNet about the announcement.
McObject and IBM Set New Records for Speed and Stability for Capital Markets
A new report from the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) demonstrates the performance value of McObject’s SQL-based eXtremeDB Financial Edition database management system (DBMS), running on IBM POWER8 S824L Linux server, executing a time-series data analytics workload. The STAC-M3 Benchmark suite is the industry standard for testing solutions that enable high-speed analytics on time series data such as tick-by-tick market data. The combination of eXtremeDB and the POWER8 system achieved new records in a set of 17 STAC-M3 tests, including the best-ever results for jitter. Adding together the mean response times for these 17 tests,eXtremeDB on POWER8 took 44% less time than the nearest competitive solution while using just one-third the number of cores. This solution provides a significant cost/performance benefit to clients in the financial industry.
To read the announcement, go here.
Linux Foundation Project Advances Real-Time Linux
The new Real-Time Linux (RTL) Collaborative Project has been announced by The Linux Foundation. RTL will bring together industry leaders and experts to advance and maximize technologies for the robotics, telecom, manufacturing, aviation and medical industries, among others. Member organizations include Altera, ARM, Google, Intel, IBM, National Instruments, OSADL, and Texas Instruments.
“Code that is built and maintained collaboratively is better and less expensive than software that is not,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. “By coming together to advance Real-Time Linux as a community, products and systems will be supported by the best developers in the world for years to come.”
For more information, go here.
IBM Brings Apache Spark’s Analytics Power to Linux and z Systems Servers
Spark, the open source in memory analytics framework, has come to the IBM mainframe. In a new IBM Systems magazine article, Mythili Venkatakrishnan, IBM Senior Technical Staff Member and the z Systems Architecture and Technology Lead for Analytics, explains what Spark is, what IBM has done to enable it for the mainframe, what it means for mainframe analytics going forward and a glimpse into where we expect it to head. Spark isn’t only about data access, but about the framework that’s offered in terms of analytic programming contexts, according to Venkatakrishnan. “Apache Spark provides an opportunity to have a fresh look at how analytics are constructed and performed in today’s enterprises. It offers some intriguing ideas for optimal leverage of the strengths of transactional environments and high business value data along with the vast amounts of external data while using consistent interfaces as well as a common skill base,” she notes.
To read the IBM Systems magazine article, go here.
The KVM Hypervisor Extends Familiar Tools to Linux on the Mainframe
As the open source ecosystem grows, open standards are increasingly important, writes Shirley S. Savage in IBM Systems magazine. Long a champion of Linux, IBM is deepening its support for the system on the mainframe, according to Savage, by providing a missing link for z Systems users: “That link is a Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), an open-standards-based hypervisor designed to take advantage of the z Systems platform.”
To read the article, go here.
IBM Helps Prepare Clients for the Growing API Economy
The application programming interface (API) economy is approximated to be a $2.2 trillion market by the year 2018 and, over the next two to three years, enterprises with an API program are expected to increase by 150%. To help organizations take advantage of the API economy, IBM has announced API Harmony with intelligent cloud-based API matchmaking technology for developers as part of a series of technology, product and services announcements to advance the growing API economy. IBM API Harmony, a cloud service available through the IBM Cloud on Bluemix, its cloud platform, provides a unique developer experience using cognitive technologies such as intelligent mapping and graph technology to anticipate what a developer will require to build new apps, make recommendations on which APIs to use, show API relationships, and identify what is missing.
IBM is a founding member of the Open API Initiative, a consortium of industry experts who recognize the value of standardizing on how REST APIs are described. To further help facilitate the development of industry standards around open API development, IBM is also announcing its participation in two key standards organizations in both banking and healthcare to ultimately allow clients to quickly and easily integrate APIs into their digital services.
For more on IBM’s new solutions and services to advance the growing API economy, go here.
For more on the new Open API Initiative, go here.
Reducing Business Risk and Increasing ROI with Enterprise Fraud Analytics
Credit card fraud is on the increase and identity theft is growing. In a new white paper about fraud in the modern world, Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies writes about the business impact of fraud, how to develop a fraud-protection strategy and how IBM z Systems analytics solutions and predictive models can help reduce risk exposure and loss from fraud. “One of the challenges with fraud is the fact that analysis needs to happen both in real-time and offline. But it is more than that. Different kinds of analysis need to be done in real-time and offline,” Ferguson notes. “That means multiple analytical workloads are needed.”
Access the white paper here.
The Enterprise Big Data and Analytics Platform of Scale: IBM z Systems
A new white paper from IDC highlights the importance of assessing big data and analytics requirements not as a single, homogeneous requirement but as a range of potential use cases. The white paper outlines the requirements for a big data implementation and explains how businesses can address the needs of big data and analytics, enabling them to leverage their existing investments in z applications as well as highly skilled IT staff to extract insights from a variety of sources and integrate them into transactional applications on a centralized environment, thus, realizing real-time analytic capabilities.
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| LINUX AND KVM EVENTS |
Unleashing the Full Potential of Linux and Open Technologies to Fuel New Innovation – Watch the Video
Delivering the opening keynotes at LinuxCon North America for IBM, a Diamond Sponsor of the event, Dr. Angel Diaz, Vice President, Cloud Architecture and Technology, IBM, and Ross Mauri, General Manager of z Systems, IBM, reflected on the change taking place in the IT world.
A replay of the opening keynotes is now available on demand here.
Doug Balog’s Red Hat Summit 2015 Keynote Available on Demand
With the confluence of disruptive new forces, including big data, cloud, high performance computing, and new engagement technologies, organizations must innovate in terms of how they build their infrastructure, Doug Balog, General Manager, IBM Power Systems, emphasized in his keynote at Red Hat Summit 2015 What’s needed today is a different mindset in order to be ready to compete on analytics, achieve a deeper understanding of customers, and of their product usage.
For an on-demand replay of Doug Balog’s keynote address, go here.
Red Hat Announces Dates for 2016 Red Hat Summit
The dates of next year’s Red Hat Summit have been announced. The 12th annual Red Hat Summit will take place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from June 28-July 1, 2016.
Go here for more information.
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| LINUX SUCCESS STORIES |
HR Group Delivers Instant Sales and Stock Analytics with SAP HANA on IBM Power
Without the ability to adapt quickly to changing fashion trends, major shoe retailer HR Group risked carrying unsold and discounted stock. HR Group migrated to SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems for SAP Business Warehouse, taking advantage of the latest IBM POWER8 technology and centralized IBM Storwize V5000 storage. As a result, the company now benefits from lightning-fast data analytics, enabling near-instant insight into market trends and reducing its the risk of carrying unfashionable lines while also simplifying the SAP solution landscape and cutting admin costs.
To read the case study, go here.
Earth Signal – Helping Clients Strike Oil with Ultra-Fast, Ultra-Dense Computing
Oil and gas firms need fast results for 2D and 3D seismic programs to support decisions about where to drill. Seismic data processor Earth Signal has deployed IBM Power Systems S822L servers with IBM POWER8 CPUs running Linux to maximize core- and thread-count within the physical limits of its data center, enabling extremely fast delivery of seismic results to industry clients and 20 times greater server density.
To read the case study, go here.
Site Ox Takes Cloud Services to New Heights with IBM Power Systems
Site Ox is rolling out new IBM Power Systems POWER8 processor-based systems that will support both big-endian or little-endian operating systems on the same physical hardware, creating new opportunities for consolidation. This also opens up a new platform for next-generation cloud services, enabling Power Systems to support applications designed previously for the Intel architecture.
Read the article here.
Key Information Systems Tackles Cloud Demands with IBM Power Systems
Almost all the opportunities that Key Information Systems Inc. (KeyInfo) is working on today, as well as the conversations it is having with clients, are in relation to hybrid cloud deployments. Businesses are looking to get the right combination of services to meet their needs within whatever constraints they have. KeyInfo is uniquely positioned to meet those needs because, in addition to the standard Windows and Linux builds on Intel, it offers the IBM Power Systems architecture as a hosted option for IBM i, IBM AIX and Linux.
Read the article here.
Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Transforms Online and Mobile Banking Systems
Mizuho Bank, Ltd. needed to transform its online and mobile banking systems while decreasing IT costs. With the help of IBM, Mizuho updated online and mobile applications, keeping user satisfaction high and expanding its online presence by gaining scalability and sustainability while reducing overall costs. Designed for continuity and scalability, IBM z Systems technology running a Linux operating system and an IBM DB2 data server provided the foundation Mizuho needed for its Linux environment to develop and deploy new services faster and more reliably.
To read this case study, go here.
Taking Linux in the Enterprise to a New Level
Meeting service-level agreements (SLAs) hinges on server reliability, uptime and manageability. IBM LinuxONE and IBM z solutions provide a flexible yet powerful infrastructure that helps ensure that your business receives the performance, reliability and processing power it needs to address increasingly sophisticated and demanding application requirements. Find out how clients simplify, innovate and compete with the enterprise-grade platform for Linux.
Read it here.
Foedus Takes Clients to the Next Level with Ultra Performing ERP Powered by IBM
Italian software developer Foedus has created OCTOBUS ERP optimized for IBM Power Systems running Linux. Foedus chose IBM Power System S812L and S822L servers running Linux and MariaDB database software as the foundation for its new version of OCTOBUS. Enabling 50% higher application performance and near-real time response times, the solution is inspiring greater satisfaction and loyalty within Foedus’ client base.
Read it here.
IBM Power Systems and ZTEsoft: Open Innovation for Better Service
A new video explains how outstanding customer experiences demand waitless virtualization, cloud and analytics. Backed by Linux on POWER8, ZTEsoft clients can process 35,000 transactions per second with ease in virtualized cloud environments. That’s unparalleled value without the wait. And for ZTEsoft, that’s 40% better performance with 20% less hardware.
Watch it here.
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| INSIDE LINUX AT IBM | Join the Fastest Growing Channel at IBM with LinuxONE
The IBM LinuxONE channel is expanding to meet global demands and address the increasing growth and requirements of Linux in the market. IBM Business Partners that are looking to add LinuxONE to their sales portfolio can get started today. IBM is seeking experienced Business Partner sellers with established skills and demonstrable success in Linux solution deployment to join the LinuxONE team.
IBM LinuxONE Now on Twitter
IBM LinuxONE is a portfolio of hardware, software and services solutions for an enterprise grade Linux environment. IBM LinuxONE brings together the flexibility and agility of the open revolution with the industry’s most advanced, trusted and performance enterprise system. Follow the newest member of the IBM Systems social team @IBMLinuxONE—now on Twitter!
IBM Combines Modern Web Development with the Security, Reliability and Performance of the IBM Mainframe
To keep pace with consumer demand for the latest mobile technology, companies want to develop secure cutting-edge applications at high speed—and without major investments in extra infrastructure. Previously, enterprises had no way to harness the cutting-edge power of Node.js technology alongside systems of record on their mainframes. IBM Systems has ported Node.js to Linux on IBM z Systems servers, enabling enterprises to profit from the mainframe’s speed and reliability while using a state-of-the-art runtime environment. Now, thanks to IBM Systems, these firms can now use Node.js to develop or run cutting-edge web and mobile applications while profiting from the outstanding speed and rock-solid reliability of IBM mainframes. For more information, go here.
Unleashing the Full Potential of Linux
In a three-part blog, Luis Carlos Silva, Continuous Integration Lead for z Systems and Product Manager for Compilers on POWER Systems at IBM, writes about unleashing the full potential of Linux, and how Docker complements and works on IBM LinuxONE and z Systems, making the lives of developers and release engineers easier. "Linux is growing at an astounding rate. Organizations see the value of consolidating their applications on the world’s most scalable Linux platform, with direct access to their core applications," he writes.
Read the first installment of this series, titled "IBM UCD and Docker on IBM LinuxONE," here.
Agile and Cost-Effective Mobile with Linux on z Systems
In a Mainframe Insights blog post, Marcel Mitran, IBM DE and CTO IBM Systems Software Performance and Linux Ecosystem, discusses the performance and cost benefits of running MobileFirst Platform on IBM z systems, collocated with critical Systems of Record mainframe applications and data.
Read the blog here.
LinuxONE Systems and Solutions Briefs
IBM LinuxONE provides a portfolio of hardware, software, and services that combine the flexibility and agility of the open revolution with the industry’s most advanced trusted, efficient and performant enterprise system for business critical applications. An increased emphasis on mobile, big data, and cloud is not only in sync with new industry trends it also responds to client demands for greater reliability, security, performance, and cost savings. Detailed information about the LinuxOne Systems and Solutions are available from IBM.
Delivering Business Agility with Open Source Solutions on IBM LinuxONE and z Systems
Linux on IBM z Systems provides high levels of performance, scalability and security. A rich open source ecosystem is growing on the platform—from Node.js to MongoDB to Docker—which combines with IBM z’s speed and other unique features to deliver business agility—the ability of an organization to get to market quickly and effectively in order to solve the business problems it faces.
To find out more, read this IBM thought leadership paper here.
UrbanCode Deploy, Docker and Linux on z Systems – Connecting All the Dots
Using Linux containers and Docker radically changes the way applications are built, shipped, deployed and instantiated. A new IBM white paper explains how using Docker, IBM UrbanCode Deploy or Linux on IBM z Systems can help you quickly develop cloud-centric applications or micro services.
Read the white paper here.
The Advantages of Using Linux and Open Source Solutions
Open source software applications are bringing new solutions to IBM LinuxONE and z Systems. New programming languages, run-time environments, relational and NoSQL databases as well as container technologies are all becoming integrated into the enterprise IT tool box. Open source software brings a broad set of new capabilities to LinuxONE and z Systems in the form of more solutions that are optimized for use on an enterprise-grade platform that leverages inherent strengths—speed combined with ultra-security application uptime, limitless capacity for growth, in addition to an inventive and collaborative ecosystem of developers and practitioners—all of which gives enterprises an important edge in improving their business agility. Access this white paper to find out how open technology can improve your agility for your business.
Go here.
IBM z Systems, Linux and Cloud Demo
A new video demonstrates how the combined power of Linux, IBM z Systems, the hybrid cloud, and IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack enhance the benefits of each part to provide the most powerful and reliable enterprise solution.
Go here.
More Hypervisor Options! New Open Source Virtualization Hypervisor
KVM for IBM z Systems provides open source virtualization for the IBM mainframe. Using a combination of KVM virtualization and IBM z Systems provides the performance and flexibility to address the requirements of multiple, differing Linux workloads. KVM’s open source virtualization on IBM z Systems allows businesses to reduce costs by deploying fewer systems to run more workloads, sharing resources and improving service levels to meet demand.
Find out more here. | INSIDE IBM'S LINUX PARTNERS | 2015 OpenStack User Survey Provides a Snapshot of Users’ Attitudes and Deployments
The sixth survey of OpenStack users since April 2013 has been released to better understand attitudes, organizational profiles, use cases, and technology choices across the community’s various deployment stages and sizes. As far as operating systems running OpenStack deployments, the survey found that “Ubuntu Server provides the majority of operating systems for running OpenStack deployments, increasing its lead by 10% over the past six months. CentOS remains steady in second place with about a quarter of deployments, while its sister RHEL increases by 2%. SLES increased by 1%, as did Fedora and the Scientific Linux distribution.” And, “going one level deeper,” the survey found that, “among OpenStack deployments with more than 1,000 users, of which there were a non-representative set of 35 responses, 65% reported using the Ubuntu server, followed by CentOS selected by 23%.”
To access the full survey results, go here.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Be Available on Microsoft Azure
Microsoft and Red Hat have announced a partnership to provide Red Hat solutions on the Microsoft Azure cloud service. Microsoft is offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the preferred choice for enterprise Linux workloads on Microsoft Azure. In addition, Microsoft and Red Hat also say they are working together to address common enterprise, ISV and developer needs for building, deploying and managing applications on Red Hat software across private and public clouds. “The data center is heterogeneous, and the cloud is hybrid,” said Paul Cormier, president, Products and Technologies, Red Hat. “With Red Hat and the leader in enterprise cloud workloads joining forces, our customers are the winners today, as we unite on common solutions to help them solve challenges in this hybrid cloud. Together, we’re offering the most comprehensive support agreement for our mixed technologies to support customers.”
Additional information on the partnership is available on The Official Microsoft Blog and the Red Hat Blog.
Beta Preview of SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6
SUSE has launched beta testing of SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6, giving customers an early look at the latest enterprise-ready technology for building Infrastructure-as-a-Service private clouds. Based on the OpenStack release Liberty, SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6 delivers high availability enhancements and non-disruptive upgrades along with Docker and IBM z Systems mainframe support to ease the transition of business-critical applications and data to the cloud. The Liberty-based beta was demonstrated during OpenStack Summit in Tokyo and at SUSECon in Amsterdam.
"IBM and SUSE have been working together for more than 15 years, providing enterprise-grade IT service with Linux on the mainframe," said Jeff Frey, chief technology officer for IBM z Systems. “Including support for z/VM in a SUSE OpenStack managed cloud allows organizations to take full advantage of the performance, scale, security and high availability of the z Systems mainframe, and at the same time, realize the improved access, flexibility, agility and operational efficiency provided by the cloud."
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6 is scheduled for release early next year following beta testing. For more information, go here.
SUSE Unveils Training Advances to Boost User Effectiveness and Value
SUSE has announced enhancements and additions to its training programs for users of enterprise Linux, storage and cloud solutions. They include new courses for SUSE OpenStack Cloud and SUSE Enterprise Storage, the availability of online technical certification training and exams, a cross-certification agreement with the Linux Foundation, and an improved, SUSE-focused worldwide training partner network. These developments will make it easier for customers to obtain training to effectively run today's data centers. "The Linux Foundation is pleased to work with SUSE to provide the industry's first cross-level certification bundle," said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. "This is a tremendously efficient and attainable way for a Linux professional to demonstrate expertise in top-level, engineer-quality Linux administration."
For details on schedules and specific courses, go here.
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