SUSE , a global leader in innovative, open and secure enterprise solutions, announces new features in its enterprise infrastructure solutions portfolio Linux, cloud native and edge, to help realize the endless potential of open source in businesses. Generative AI, cloud-native technologies, and edge technologies are reinventing how businesses build and operate applications across cloud, edge, and on-premises environments. New SUSE capabilities help organizations transform their businesses by accelerating profitability and reducing operating costs.
“Being able to make an informed choice is essential in today’s complex IT ecosystem. At the same time, recent market consolidations are stripping many companies of their options,” says Thomas Di Giacomo , Head of Technology and Product, SUSE. “With its unique, open, ecosystem-driven approach, SUSE maintains its long-standing commitment to providing customers with the flexibility they need for their data center infrastructure to drive results. »
Business Critical Linux
Enterprise-grade Linux is at the heart of running business-critical workloads. SUSE Linux Enterprise has always been favored by businesses seeking agility, reliability, and choice for their core IT infrastructure. SUSE continues to drive business innovation and efficiency through its line of mission-critical Linux products. While many claim to offer confidential IT solutions, the key question is end-to-end capabilities to ensure maximum security and compliance. SUSE Linux strengthens its leadership position in the field of confidential computing with its latest versions of SUSE Linux Enterprise and SUSE Manager, and support for Intel TDX (Trust Domain Extensions) and AMD SEV (Secure Encrypted) technologies Virtualization), including for hyperscaler computing 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 that offers the longest period of long-term support in the Enterprise Linux market, which will be completed in 2037. Designed to simplify IT operations in the data center, cloud and edge, SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 6 (SP6) reduces the risks and costs of adopting new technologies and ensures business continuity by minimizing planned and unplanned service interruptions. It includes an updated version of kernel 6.4 and new libraries, including OpenSSL 3.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise, built on a certified secure supply chain and meeting the highest standards, helps ensure security in compliance with the most rigorous 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 SAP workloads strategic, from the data center to the cloud. This release also gives customers access to the latest innovations from Trento , an open source web application, developed by SUSE, that helps better protect SAP infrastructures by diagnosing the most common configuration errors 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 system environments. It simplifies standalone container deployments, with optimization for embedded and embedded devices, while providing a stable platform for Kubernetes deployments. This release introduces support for full disk encryption, increasing the security of customer data both inside and outside the data center. Built to work anywhere, SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 6.0 enables businesses to transcend geographic and operational constraints, while adapting to diverse deployment scenarios.
- SUSE Manager 5.0: Supporting more than 16 different Linux distributions, SUSE Manager 5.0 is the industry’s first multi-Linux management solution, providing automated patching and compliance management for any 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 so customers can prove that their remote environments are running in a confidential computing environment for increased compliance.
SUSE remains fully committed to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and is already working on a new set of innovations for Enterprise Linux by releasing the next major release of its business-critical Linux platform, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 16, in 2025.
SOURCE: PRNewswire