INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Software for Business
At a glance…
SUSE Linux Enterprise
Live Patching to aid with
planned downtime
Commvault customers and Cisco partners
immediately. More details can be found
here.
“When we look for solutions to our
customers’ important data backup, recovery
and management needs, both on-premise
and outside in hybrid cloud scenarios, we
not only require exceptional technologies,
but also solutions built on partnerships
by trusted industry leaders,” said Tom
Cahill, Vice President, Product and Partner
Management, CDW. “Through their new
reference architectures, Commvault and
Cisco are going to make it easier and faster
for CDW to deliver the solutions that add
value for our customers.”
“Today’s launch of the new reference
architectures and our support into Cisco
HyperFlex bring trusted industry leaders
together with complimentary technologies
for the benefit of customers and partners,”
said Ralph Nimergood, Vice President,
Worldwide Channels & Alliances, Commvault.
“We are proud to team up with Cisco to
address real customer pain points around
ease of purchase and deployment in the
form of reference architectures to reduce
unnecessary hardware acquisition costs,
optimise mission critical applications and
limit the time to implement the right-sized
solution significantly.”
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SUSE recently
introduced SUSE
Linux Enterprise Live
Patching to help
customers running
workloads on the SAP
HANA platform, SAP
NetWeaver technology
platform and other
SAP applications
reduce the business
disruption caused by
planned downtime,
while maintaining
a highly secure IT
environment. Live
Patching allows
enterprise Linux customers to perform system patching without
rebooting, which increases service availability and saves on the
cost of downtime.
“As business becomes increasingly reliant on real-time data
and analytics, maintaining access to application servers is
critical,” said Michael Miller, President of Strategy, Alliances
and Marketing for SUSE. “While advances like the SAP HANA
platform have accelerated database processing, the IT industry
has resigned itself to the antiquated idea of planned downtime.
We believe business shouldn’t have to grind to a halt just
because a server needs updating.”
SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching ensures critical SAP business
applications remain available by providing a stream of packages
to update a running kernel without interruption. An enterprise
running SAP HANA can patch its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
for SAP Applications without shutting SAP HANA down and
rebooting the server, which could otherwise take hours due to
the large amount of data involved.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching is available for x86-64 servers
via subscription, delivered on top of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
Service Pack 1 for SAP Applications, the leading Linux platform for
SAP solutions. Customers must have (or purchase) a corresponding
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Priority Support subscription. For more
information, visit www.suse.com/products/live-patching.
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