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SUSE Enhances Linux, Cloud Native Virtualization & Management, and Edge Platform Solutions to Empower Enterprises with Greater Choice and Innovation

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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.

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Siemon Announces Optical Patching Solutions for GenAI Networks Using NVIDIA Accelerated Computing

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Siemon announces it is offering its full range of optical patching solutions to work specifically with NVIDIA AI infrastructure for generative AI networks.

WATERTOWN, Conn., Sept. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — The Siemon Company, a global leader in network infrastructure solutions, today announced it is offering its full range of optical patching solutions to work specifically with NVIDIA AI infrastructure for generative AI networks. Large complex GPU clusters can benefit from using structured cabling patch panels versus point-to-point cabling. Siemon acts as a trusted advisor to customers by providing expert advice and best practice recommendations for design & deployment of NVIDIA AI Infrastructure.

“Siemon is very familiar with NVIDIA reference architectures and has worked with many customers to design and deploy NVIDIA clusters… Siemon offers a full range of AI-ready fiber cabling, DAC, and AOC solutions that support 400G, 800G, and 1.6T applications.”

As part of the solution integration, Siemon has joined the NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN) as a Solution Advisor Consultant. NPN Solution Advisor Consultants provide consultation services and expert advice to customers looking to implement NVIDIA-based solutions or technologies. Siemon joins the network to offer its expertise in addressing the unique infrastructure and cabling challenges presented by accelerated computing.

NVIDIA optical reach specifications are calculated assuming two optical patch panels are used in the link and assuming each employ two optical connectors, which makes for a total allowance of four optical connectors in the link. The Siemon optical patching solutions meet NVIDIA requirements and provide customers with flexibility and ease of management.

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AMSimpkins & Associates Awarded Wisconsin Technical Purchasing Consortium Contract RFB 25-002TP – for Identity Verification Solutions

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AMSimpkins & Associates has been awarded the Wisconsin Technical Colleges Purchasing Consortium (WTC-PC) contract for Identity Verification Solutions. This partnership includes providing their advanced S.A.F.E. (Student Application Fraudulent Examination) platform to 16 Wisconsin technical colleges, enhancing security and safeguarding against fraudulent student applications. With a focus on higher education, AMSA aims to support these institutions in maintaining the integrity of their admissions processes and preventing identity fraud. This collaboration underscores AMSA’s commitment to delivering innovative solutions tailored for the education sector.

ATLANTA, Sept. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — AMSimpkins & Associates is proud to announce its selection by the Wisconsin Technical College System Purchasing Consortium (WTC-PC) to provide Identity Verification Solutions through the S.A.F.E. platform. The WTC-PC comprises 16 independent, publicly funded two-year technical colleges across Wisconsin, including Blackhawk Technical College, Chippewa Valley Technical College, Fox Valley Technical College, and Milwaukee Area Technical College, among others.

“We are honored by the Wisconsin Technical College Consortium’s trust in AMSA. This partnership further emphasizes our commitment to providing secure, innovative identity verification solutions that support the needs of educational institutions in protecting their students and operations.”

With a focus on preventing identity fraud, AMSimpkins & Associates’ comprehensive solutions will strengthen the security measures across admissions, enrollment, and financial aid processes, ensuring secure verification and compliance with federal and state regulations. S.A.F.E. will now support Wisconsin’s higher education system, offering its cutting-edge technology to streamline operations and safeguard student data.

“We are honored by the Wisconsin Technical College Consortium’s trust in AMSimpkins & Associates,” said Maurice Simpkins, President and Founder. “This partnership further emphasizes our commitment to providing secure, innovative identity verification solutions that support the needs of educational institutions in protecting their students and operations.”

As part of this agreement, AMSimpkins & Associates will deliver comprehensive services, including system integration, training, and ongoing support to ensure seamless implementation. S.A.F.E.’s capabilities are designed to evolve with growing threats of fraudulent activities, keeping institutions one step ahead in securing student identities.

Institutions in the Wisconsin Technical College System:

Blackhawk Technical CollegeChippewa Valley Technical CollegeFox Valley Technical CollegeGateway Technical CollegeLakeshore Technical CollegeMadison Area Technical CollegeMid-State Technical CollegeMilwaukee Area Technical CollegeMoraine Park Technical CollegeNicolet Area Technical CollegeNorthcentral Technical CollegeNortheast Wisconsin Technical CollegeNorthwood Technical CollegeSouthwest Wisconsin Technical CollegeWaukesha County Technical CollegeWestern Technical College

The S.A.F.E. platform’s advanced identity verification services will play a pivotal role in securing sensitive data and ensuring a safe and fraud-free environment for Wisconsin’s technical colleges and their students.

For more information about AMSimpkins & Associates and the S.A.F.E. platform, please visit amsa-highered.com.

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Shijingshan: Committed to High-Level Openness

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BEIJING, Sept. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Following the third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, China successfully hosted its first national-level international large-scale fair—the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) 2024, which concluded on September 16. The event featured exhibitors from 85 countries and international organizations, participating under their national governments or headquarters, with over 450 Fortune Global 500 companies and industry leaders showcasing their offerings both online and offline.

Adhering to the open, cooperative and mutually beneficial principle, the CIFTIS injects new momentum into global economic development through concrete actions. As one of the “dual venues” for the fair, Shijingshan District hosted a variety of business activities, including exhibitions, negotiations, and conferences. While providing meeting organization services, it showcased the achievements of Shijingshan in fostering openness and development. By leveraging the Fair’s platform, Shijingshan seeks to promote its developmental advantages globally and aims to attract more partners to this welcoming district for mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation.

Presenting Achievements in Open Cooperation and Development in Multiple Dimensions

This CIFTIS’s Shougang Park venue is composed of nine thematic exhibitions, including telecommunications, computer and information services; financial services; culture & tourism services; education services; sports services; supply chain & business services; engineering consulting & construction services; health services; and environmental services. It circles around cultivating new quality productive forces while showcasing the latest achievements, technologies, and applications in the digitalization, intelligentization, and greening of services trade, creating a “debut stage” for global services trade.

Shijingshan leverages its strengths by organizing five thematic exhibitions and four promotional booths on-site. The culture & tourism services exhibition promoted Shijingshan’s rich culture and tourism resources, while also building a support area for paired assistance to highlight its revitalization efforts to a global audience. The financial services exhibition showcased its achievements in economic development across five sectors, that is, sci-tech finance, green finance, inclusive finance, pension finance, and digital finance. The exhibition of telecommunications, computer and information services highlighted the growth of Shijingshan’s the artificial intelligence large model industry cluster and key humanoid robot enterprises. In addition, the primary and secondary school science education experimental zone invited participation from six national-level science education centers, including Shijingshan District, to display their accomplishments. Four schools, including the Beijing National Day School Shijingshan, showcased their scientific research and learning outcomes through visual presentations and videos, while also engaging visitors in interactive science experiments.

The AIES Beijing Open is made up of four competition areas, virtual cycling, virtual rowing, virtual dance, and virtual table tennis. The event welcomed international competitors, domestic professional athletes, high-level amateurs, and university students, while showing the achievements of the “digital + sports” industry. Besides, four promotional booths focused on taxation, justice, investment, and commerce showcases Shijingshan’s tax and judicial policies, offering one-stop policy guidance for participating businesses and visitors. These booths also clarified investment promotion policies, creating a unique event that integrates commerce, tourism, culture, and sports.

Working Together for Global Open Cooperation and Development

The Open Cooperation Forum 2024 was held on the afternoon of September 13. Experts, scholars, government representatives, and business leaders from both domestic and international backgrounds gathered at the Shougang Park to engage in in-depth discussions on promoting high-level open cooperation and supporting regional economic development. Shijingshan District is committed to taking industrial transformation as the strategic foundation for its initiatives, establishing several distinctive industrial parks, including the Intelligent Technology Park, Industrial Internet Park, Virtual Reality Park, Science Fiction Industry Cluster, and Artificial Intelligence Large Model Cluster. What’s more, the district is focusing on new opportunities in future information, future health, future manufacturing, and future space, continually enhancing its innovation capacity, development vitality, economic strength, and overall competitiveness.

It is dedicated to expanding openness as a key driver for integrating into the capital’s new development pattern. The district capitalizes on a range of policy opportunities, including the construction of Beijing’s two zones, effectively leveraging the role of expanding services and deepening economic reforms. It continues to optimize the business environment, actively participates in organizing the CIFTIS, and develops high-standard international cooperation zones to provide a broad platform and efficient services for enterprises to settle and cluster. Shijingshan aims to implement high-level openness to promote high-quality development, enhance mechanisms for foreign openness, innovate and elevate services trade, and align with international economic and trade standards, creating a premier business environment characterized by marketization, rule of law, and internationalization.

Three parallel forums took place during this CIFTIS. With the theme of “Leveraging Overseas Strength for Development • Pursuing Broad Horizons Through Innovation”, the Dream Incubator of Overseas Chinese Beijing Forum set up ten sub-venues abroad, aiming to enhance the involvement of overseas Chinese’s capital and expertise in Beijing’s high-quality development. The Artificial General Intelligence Computility Forum focused on “Releasing New Quality Productive Forces with Unbounded Intelligence and Computational Foundations”, where industry experts and scholars explored new possibilities in artificial general intelligence computility. The Digital Energy Development Forum 2024, themed as “Energizing the Future with Digital Innovation”, showcased a range of quality development achievements and finalized partnerships for several high-quality projects, uniting all parties to advance digital innovation and development.

The rich array of side events is one of the highlights of this CIFTIS. The International Open Cooperation Promotion Conference circled around developing the international open cooperation zone, drawing representatives from international organizations, leading global companies, and prospective businesses seeking to establish a presence in these areas. It centered on the advantages of Shijingshan’s key industries to attract target enterprises. Furthermore, the Roundtable Discussion of Foreign-Funded Enterprises engaged representatives from international organizations, business associations, and foreign-funded companies from countries like Malaysia, Singapore, and France to explore collaboration in aligning with high-standard international economic and trade rules, as well as market access in the service sector, sharing the successes of modernization with Chinese characteristics.

To enhance the consumer experience for attendees of the CIFTIS, Shijingshan has expanded its comprehensive service offerings in areas such as food, accommodation, transportation, tourism, entertainment and shopping. The Second “Here I Am for CIFTIS” Shijingshan Culture and Tourism Carnival has been significantly upgraded, evidenced by the “Divine Beasts Ascend to Immortal Mountain”: Enchanting Night Tour in Shijing Mountain. The “Surprises Await in Shijingshan. Hey There, CIFTIS!” promotional event was held during the 14th Shijingshan Consumption Festival. This included online surprise announcements and a consumption map showcasing quality shopping venues. Special surprise floats were on display, with oversized themed shopping bags distributed. Shopping centers like Joy City, Xirondo Plaza, Modern Plaza, and Chang’an Mills in Shijingshan also launched supporting promotional activities. Business tours in Shijingshan offered three dedicated routes, inviting exhibitors from digital technology, finance and insurance, culture and tourism, and sports related industries to explore relevant industrial parks and attractions for in-depth exchanges.

The China International Fair for Trade in Services 2024 has successfully concluded. Utilizing this platform, Shijingshan has once again showed its high-quality development achievements and favorable business environment to a global audience. We look forward to collaborating with more partners in an open and inclusive manner to create a win-win future.

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