SUSE, a global enabler in innovative, reliable and enterprise – friendly open source solutions, has launched SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) Micro 5.1, a Lightweight and secure operating system designed for containerized and virtualized workloads.
SLE Micro 5.1 receives new edge-focused security features, including secure device integration and live patching, and facilitates workload modernization through support for IBM Z and LinuxONE.
SLE Micro is designed to scale and therefore allows customers to integrate it into their digital transformation plans, whether at the edge or with mainframes supporting edge deployments, to move monolithic workloads to a microservices-based design, at their own pace. Customers can start with container-based workloads or virtualize legacy workloads, before moving, when ready, to containerized workloads, without having to make system platform changes. underlying.
“SLE Micro is quickly becoming a critical foundation for customers’ digital transformation efforts. This is reflected in the decision of a large US-based systems integrator to invest a seven-figure amount in order to use SLE Micro to modernize its on-board systems, said Thomas Di Giacomo, chief technology officer and director. products at SUSE. This company wants to support container-based workloads with an immutable infrastructure that is easy to maintain and update, in order to reduce maintenance costs and modernize its systems infrastructure. This triumph, coming just six months after the launch of SLE Micro, shows how ready SLE Micro is for businesses to use. This advantage stems from decades of enterprise environment experience that we have accumulated through the technology components of the SUSE Linux Enterprise family. ”
In addition, SLE Micro is helping SUSE expand its reach into some of its core businesses, such as telecommunications and manufacturing.
“One of the largest telecommunications companies in the world values SLE Micro for its openness, as the solution it currently uses has evolved over the years into a locked platform,” added Di Giacomo. Closed source software is not viable for this company, because it considerably limits its ability to invest and innovate in the field of software, but also with hardware. SLE Micro has helped the company take advantage of the possibilities offered by open source design to reduce software and hardware costs. Since SLE Micro is open standards compliant, the company has the flexibility to try out basic hardware offered by different vendors and build an open source software platform at the using open standards like Kubernetes and open source tools of their choice. Ultimately, the company expects to achieve significant savings in software and hardware costs, while maintaining full control over their technology stack strategy and roadmap.”
SLE Micro also makes it easy for organizations of all sizes to adopt Kubernetes, as it is designed to work efficiently with K3s , SUSE Rancher (RKE2), and third-party Kubernetes distributions.
Bhumik Patel, Director of Server Ecosystem Development, Infrastructure Line of Business, Arm, said: “As evidenced by the broad support for Arm initiatives such as Project Cassini, SOAFEE and the recently announced Project Centauri, there is There is no doubt that the industry is embracing the principles of software designed for the cloud today to stay ahead of the changing energy and power demands of IoT and edge network devices. SUSE’s platform, combining SLE Micro with K3s, excels for Arm-based embedded devices, for edge network use cases and for industrial IoT applications.”
Together with other SUSE technologies, SLE Micro aims to be the foundation for containerized workloads deployed in all areas of production, including edge environments, embedded devices, industrial IoT applications, and various business environments. computing inside and outside the data center.
Kara Todd, Director of Linux, IBM Z and LinuxONE at IBM, said, “By adding SLE Micro to its IBM Z and LinuxONE supported products, SUSE shows that it continues to prioritize its choices. We hope that our mutual customers enjoy the ability to use this immutable Linux distribution as a KVM host in their secure execution stack, and enjoy the security and reliability of the IBM Z platform.”
