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.
Enterprise Container Management
As Kubernetes and container adoption see exponential demand for mission-critical workloads, businesses need secure, scalable operations for cloud-native technology. SUSE solutions contribute to this modernization, helping to accelerate innovation and ensuring the sustainability of the infrastructure. To meet demand, SUSE is announcing enhancements to its container management, observability, container security, and virtualization offerings.
- Rancher Prime 3.1 – This release adds cutting-edge observability based on StackState acquisition . Rancher Prime 3.1 also improves AI support with virtual cluster provisioning, promotes cluster sharing without compromising isolation, and optimizes resource costs, such as GPUs. Additionally, Rancher Prime’s collection of applications for Kubernetes now includes KubeFlow, providing a secure AI stack, providing data control, and leveraging community-driven solutions. Finally, version 3.1 extends lifecycle support to 24 months with Prime Long Term Support (LTS) and offers a 3-year LTS Core option for the RKE2 and K3.
- NeuVector Prime 5.4 – Building on the Rancher Prime UI expansion released earlier this year, NeuVector Prime 5.4 now integrates analysis results directly into Rancher Prime resources, such as pods and nodes, as well as an analysis button. This release also introduces a new framework for compliance reporting, accelerating the availability of new or updated compliance reports (e.g. DISA-STIG). Additionally, NeuVector Prime 5.4 introduces protections against distributed denial-of-service network attacks, triggering alerts and crashes when maximum connection rate or bandwidth usage thresholds are exceeded.
- Harvester 1.3.1: Latest release of SUSE’s cloud-native virtualization platform provides customers with a path to modernization, allowing them to abandon VMware-based workloads and other virtual machines in favor of modern solutions cloud native. Designed to significantly improve the performance of AI and other workloads and extend Harvester’s capabilities to more hardware platforms, this release ensures smooth integration and optimized resource utilization in diverse environments computers. This release introduces crucial advances in AI and hardware compatibility, including better support for industry-leading vGPU and Arm architectures.
Edge
As the importance of immediate access to data, networks and communications services continues to grow, it is a priority for communications service providers (CSPs) and businesses to quickly collect and process data from smart devices , sensors and controllers. This enables these organizations to gain insights into business processes and empowers them to provide innovative services to end users. SUSE Edge enables cloud-native transformation by providing a specialized computing platform to manage the full lifecycle of devices at scale. Additionally, SUSE Adaptive Telco Infrastructure Platform (ATIP) leverages SUSE Edge to provide CSPs with a telecom-optimized edge computing platform to accelerate containerized network functions (CNF) deployments in telecom networking environments. SUSE today announced the following enhancements to the SUSE Edge and SUSE ATIP offerings :
- SUSE Edge 3.0: SUSE Edge 3.0 is optimized to work in remote locations with limited resources and intermittent internet connectivity, making it ideal for embedded devices. SUSE Edge is built on SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro, leverages CNCF-certified Kubernetes distributions, and supports managing and running 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, integrated cloud-native stack, delivering complete end-to-end lifecycle management. edge devices at scale.
- SUSE Adaptive Telco Infrastructure Platform 3.0: This latest release provides a commercial implementation of the Linux Europe Foundation’s Sylva project, enabling CSPs to reduce their energy consumption and commit to open source principles. This release also introduces Edge Image Builder, which allows you to customize deployment artifacts to create edge clusters in the most remote locations. ATIP 3.0 also enables provisioning of zero trust bare metal clusters using Cluster API (CAPI) and Metal3 (metal kubed)
As businesses around the world continue to realize the limitless potential of AI, SUSE also unveiled its AI strategy and roadmap, emphasizing its commitment to sustainable AI. open, secure and compliant company. 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.
SOURCE: PRNewsWire