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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications
coming to the IBM Cloud
SUSE has announced that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications
will be available as an operating system for SAP solutions on the IBM Cloud. In
addition, IBM Cloud
is now a SUSE cloud
service provider,
giving customers a
supported open source
platform that makes
them more agile and
reduces operating
costs as they only pay
for what they use.
“Customers need
access to a secure and scalable cloud platform to run mission-critical workloads,
one with the speed and agility of IBM Cloud, which is one of the largest open public
cloud deployments in the world,” said Phillip Cockrell, SUSE VP of worldwide
alliance sales. “As the public cloud grows increasingly more popular for production
workloads, SUSE and IBM are offering enterprise-grade open source software fully
supported on IBM Cloud. Whether big iron or public cloud, SUSE is committed to
giving our customers the environments they need to succeed,” he added.
Jay Jubran, director of offering management, IBM Cloud, said, “IBM
Cloud is designed to give enterprises the power and performance they need to
manage their mission-critical business applications. IBM provides a spectrum
of fully managed and Infrastructure as a Service solutions to support SAP
HANA applications, including SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as well as new
bare metal servers with up to 8TB of memory.”Spotlight on adopting serverless technologies
According to Gartner, “By 2022, most Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings
will evolve to a fundamentally serverless model, rendering the cloud platform
architectures dominant in 2017 as legacy architectures.” Serverless is one
of the hottest technologies in the cloud space today. The Serverless Summit
organised on October 27 in Bengaluru by CodeOps Technologies put a spotlight
on serverless
technologies. The
conference helped
bring together
people who are
passionate about
learning and
adopting serverless
technologies in
their organisations.
With speakers from
three different
continents and
250 participants from all over India, the event was a wonderful confluence of
experts, architects, developers, DevOps, practitioners, CXOs and enthusiasts.OpenMessaging debuts to
provide an open standard
for distributed messaging
The Linux Foundation has announced
a new project to bring about an open
standard for distributed messaging.
Called OpenMessaging, this project
is aimed at establishing a governance
model and structure for companies
working on messaging APIs.
Leading Internet companies
like Yahoo, Alibaba, Didi and
Streamlio are contributing to the
OpenMessaging project, primarily
to solve the challenges of messaging
and streaming applications.
The open standard design from
this project will be deployed in
on-premise, cloud and hybrid
infrastructure models.
Scaling with messaging services
is a big problem. The lack of
compatibility between wire-level
protocols and standard benchmarking
is the most common issue faced.
When data gets transferred across
different streaming and messaging
platforms, compatibility becomes
a problem. Additional resources as
well as higher maintenance costs
are the main complaints about
messaging platforms. Existing
solutions lack standardised guidelines
for fault tolerance, load balancing,
security and administration.
The needs of modern cloud-
oriented messaging and streaming
applications are very different.
The Linux Foundation plans
to address all these issues with the
OpenMessaging project. The project
is also designed to address the issue
of redundant work for developers,
and make it easier to meet the
cutting-edge demands around smart
cities, IoT and edge computing.
The project contributors plan to
facilitate a standard benchmark
for application testing and enable
platform independence.8 | DECEMBER 2017 | OPEN SOURCE FOR YOU | http://www.OpenSourceForU.com