Bolstered SUSE portfolio provides open,
cloud-native, and enterprise grade infrastructure to facilitate IT
innovation across the data center, hybrid cloud and at the
edge
BERLIN, June 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- (SUSECON 2024)
-- SUSE®, a global leader in innovative, open and
secure enterprise-grade solutions, today announced new capabilities
across its Linux, cloud native, and edge portfolio of enterprise
infrastructure solutions to help unlock the infinite potential of
open source in enterprises. Generative AI, cloud native, and edge
technologies are reinventing the way enterprises build and operate
applications across the cloud, edge and on-premise environments.
SUSE's new capabilities support organizations to transform their
businesses by providing faster time-to-value and reduced
operational costs.
"The power of choice in today's complex IT landscape is so
essential. At the same time, recent market consolidation
developments are stripping many enterprises of their options," said
Dr. Thomas Di Giacomo, Chief
Technology and Product Officer at SUSE. "With our uniquely open and
ecosystem-first approach, SUSE is maintaining our long-held
commitment to offering customers the flexibility they need with
their data center infrastructure to drive results for their
businesses."
Business Critical Linux
Enterprise-grade Linux is at
the core of running business critical, enterprise workloads. SUSE
Linux Enterprise has always been the preference for organizations
seeking agility, reliability, and choice in their core IT
infrastructure. SUSE continues to empower business innovations and
efficiencies through its business critical Linux portfolio. While
many claim to offer confidential computing solutions, the key
question lies around end-to-end capabilities to ensure maximum
security and compliance. SUSE Linux extends its leadership position
in confidential computing with our latest releases of SUSE Linux
Enterprise and SUSE Manager, and support for Intel TDX (Trust
Domain Extensions) and AMD SEV (Secure Encrypted Virtualization)
technologies, including for hyperscalers' compute instances, and
remote attestation with SUSE Manager. Today, SUSE announced the
following enhancements, innovations, and future roadmap:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 Service Pack 6: With
this update, SUSE future-proofs IT workloads with a new Long Term
Service Pack Support Core providing the longest-term support period
in the enterprise Linux market, now ending in 2037. Designed to
simplify IT operations across the data center, cloud and Edge, SUSE
Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 6 (SP6) lowers the risk and cost
of adopting new technologies and ensures business continuity by
minimizing planned and unplanned service outages. It includes an
updated 6.4 kernel version and new libraries, including OpenSSL
3.1. Built on a certified secure software supply chain and adhering
to the highest standards, SUSE Linux Enterprise enables security in
compliance with the strictest regulations.
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SP6: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6
provides SAP customers and partners with the most popular secure
and reliable Linux platform for running their mission critical SAP
workloads, from the data center to the cloud. This release also
delivers customers access to the latest innovations from Trento ,
an open-source web application, developed by SUSE, enabling better
protection of SAP infrastructures by diagnosing common
configuration mistakes and validating systems against SUSE best
practices.
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 6.0: SUSE Linux Enterprise
Micro 6.0 is an immutable, lightweight and secure open source host
operating system optimized for containerized and virtualized
workloads. It simplifies standalone container deployments,
optimizing it for embedded and integrated appliances, while also
providing a stable platform for Kubernetes deployments. This
release introduces support for full disk encryption, strengthening
customer data security, both inside and outside the data center.
Designed to run anywhere, SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 6.0 enables
organizations to transcend geographical and operational
constraints, while adapting to diverse deployment scenarios.
- SUSE Manager 5.0: Supporting over 16 different Linux
distributions, SUSE Manager 5.0 is the industry's leading
multi-Linux management solution, delivering from a single console
automated patch and compliance management for any Linux, anywhere
and at any scale. SUSE Manager itself is containerized for
increased resilience, scalability and portability, as well as
simple installation. This release also adds remote attestation
capabilities for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 to ensure
customers can prove their remote environments are running in a
Confidential Computing environment for enhanced compliance.
SUSE remains fully committed to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and
is already working on an additional set of innovations for
Enterprise Linux by launching the next major release of its
flagship business critical Linux platform, SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server 16 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 16
in 2025.
Enterprise Container Management
As Kubernetes and
container adoption surge for business-critical workloads,
enterprises require secure, scalable operations for cloud native
technology. SUSE's solutions aid this modernization, enabling
faster innovation and future-proofing infrastructure. To meet
demand, SUSE announces enhancements to its enterprise container
management, observability, container security, and virtualization
offerings.
- Rancher Prime 3.1 - This release adds market leading
observability based upon acquisition of StackState. Rancher Prime
3.1 also enhances AI support with virtual cluster provisioning,
promotes cluster sharing without isolation compromise, and
optimizes resource costs like GPUs. Additionally, Rancher Prime's
Application Collection for Kubernetes now includes KubeFlow,
offering a secure AI stack, ensuring data control and leveraging
community-driven solutions. Finally, Version 3.1 extends lifecycle
support to 24 months with Long Term Support (LTS) Prime and
introduces a 3-year LTS Core option for RKE2 and K3s.
- NeuVector Prime 5.4 - Building on the Rancher Prime UI
extension released earlier this year, NeuVector Prime 5.4 will now
embed scan results directly into Rancher Prime resources like pods
and nodes, along with a scan button. This release also introduces a
new compliance reporting framework, expediting the availability of
new/updated compliance reports (e.g., DISA-STIG). Additionally,
NeuVector Prime 5.4 introduces distributed denial-of-service
network attack protections, triggering alerts and blocking when
thresholds for maximum connection rates or bandwidth usage are
exceeded.
- Harvester 1.3.1: The latest release of SUSE's cloud
native virtualization platform offers customers a path to
modernization, providing customers a transition from legacy
VMware-based and other virtual machine workloads in favor of modern
cloud native solutions. Designed to significantly improve AI and
other workload performance and extend Harvester's capabilities to a
wider range of hardware platforms, this release ensures seamless
integration and optimized resource utilization in diverse computing
environments. This release introduces critical advancements in AI
and hardware compatibility, including increased support for
cutting-edge vGPU and Arm architectures.
Edge
As the importance of immediate access to data,
network, and communications services grows, it is a top priority
for communication service providers (CSP) and enterprises to
rapidly collect and process data from intelligent devices, sensors
and controllers. This empowers these organizations with business
process insights and gives them tools to deliver new and innovative
services to end-users. SUSE Edge enables cloud native
transformation by providing a specialized computing platform to
manage the full lifecycle of edge devices at scale. Additionally,
SUSE Adaptive Telco Infrastructure Platform (ATIP) builds on SUSE
Edge to deliver a telco-optimized edge computing platform for CSPs
to accelerate deployments of containerized network functions (CNFs)
into telco network environments. SUSE today announced the
continuing enhancements delivered in the SUSE Edge and SUSE ATIP offerings:
- SUSE Edge 3.0: SUSE Edge 3.0 is optimized to run in
resource-constrained, remote locations with intermittent internet
connectivity, making it ideal for embedded devices. SUSE Edge is
built-on SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro, leverages CNCF-certificated
Kubernetes distributions, and supports the management and execution
of containers, virtual machines, and microservices. With Edge 3.0,
SUSE brings the power of Rancher Prime Kubernetes management,
NeuVector Prime cloud native container security, and a fully
validated, edge-optimized, and integrated cloud native stack
providing full lifecycle management of edge devices at scale.
- SUSE Adaptive Telco Infrastructure Platform 3.0: This
latest release is delivering a commercial implementation of Linux
Foundation Europe's Project Sylva, enabling CSPs to realize lower
energy consumption and a commitment to open-source principles. This
release also introduces Edge Image Builder, which enables
customized deployment artifacts to create edge clusters in the most
remote locations. ATIP 3.0 also provides zero-trust bare metal
cluster provisioning using Cluster API (CAPI) and Metal3 (metal
kubed).
As businesses everywhere continue to realize the limitless
potential of AI, SUSE also unveiled its AI strategy and roadmap
focusing on its commitment to enterprise AI that is open, secure
and compliant. This includes the SUSE AI Early Access
Program, a program for customers and partners that will
guide the future of secure open source AI in the enterprise.
To learn more about SUSE's latest Linux, cloud native, and edge
product innovations, please visit: Business Critical Linux,
Enterprise Container Management, Edge.
About SUSE
SUSE is a global leader in innovative,
reliable and secure enterprise open source solutions, including
SUSE Linux Enterprise, Rancher and NeuVector. More than 60% of the
Fortune 500 rely on SUSE to power their mission-critical workloads,
enabling them to innovate everywhere – from the data center to the
cloud, to the edge and beyond. SUSE puts the "open" back in open
source, collaborating with partners and communities to give
customers the agility to tackle innovation challenges today and the
freedom to evolve their strategy and solutions tomorrow. For more
information, visit www.suse.com.
Media contact: rachel.romoff@suse.com
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