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FEATURE: CLOUD MANAGEMENT
THE PARTNERSHIP
WITH SUSE
ADDS CRITICAL
CAPABILITIES TO
OUR OFFERING.
Paul Abi-Chahine (left), Regional Director,
EMEA East, SUSE and (R) Miguel Angel
Villalonga, VP of Cloud and Datacentre at
Etisalat Digital
BY LEVERAGING THE SUSE PORTFOLIO,
WE CAN BROADEN OUR OFFERINGS
FOR HOSTING AND MANAGING MISSION
CRITICAL WORKLOADS.
the modern enterprise. The recent Cloud
Report 2017 commissioned by SUSE shows
that organisations are taking advantage
of software-defined infrastructure (SDI),
containers and DevOps to keep pace with
the demands of today’s markets.”
“The partnership with Etisalat Digital
combines SUSE’s innovative enterprise
solutions with the expertise of a world
leading Cloud Service Provider, driving digital
transformation by enabling enterprises and
governments to become smarter through
the use of the latest technologies.”
Customers deploying SUSE Linux Enterprise
in the Etisalat Digital public cloud will have
the ability to:
• Increase agility while lowering cost:
customers can convert upfront capital
expenses to pay-as-you-go operational
expenses. Whether migrating existing
workloads or developing and deploying
new applications, SUSE solutions ease the
transition to the public cloud.
• Adopt a zero-downtime model: The
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loss of a mission-critical application or
service due to downtime is expensive
whether applications are running in the
cloud or an on-premise data centre.
Business continuity and disaster recovery
solutions with SUSE Linux Enterprise
in the Etisalat Digital cloud ensures
that businesses stay up-to-date with
the latest security patches, feature
enhancements and bug fixes with a 24/7
support team. On-demand compute
resources enable customers to extend
their on-premises HPC cluster into the
cloud when more capacity is needed.
The easy to set up and use, SUSE Linux
Enterprise High Availability Extension,
eliminates anxiety over data loss with
real-time synchronisation that quickly
restores clustered services and intelligent
locking mechanisms that maintain data
integrity, helping customers maintain
continuity, protect data integrity and
maximise uptime.
• Manage the entire business in the cloud:
Running SAP solutions in Etisalat Digital
cloud on SUSE Linux Enterprise for SAP
Applications, the leading platform for SAP
solutions including SAP HANA, provides a
reliable, manageable and highly available
platform for all SAP mission-critical
workloads. Jointly validated and certified
by SAP and SUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server for SAP Applications, consistently
delivers outstanding uptime and
performance, even under full CPU loads
and high memory stress. Integrated priority
support and maintenance and extended
service pack support, lowers the costs of
operation and maintenance, and built-in
business continuity eliminates single points
of failure to protect business operations. n
Tackling the
challenges of
managing your
move to the
cloud
Very few businesses will not be
adopting the cloud over the next
few years. However, not many
of these enterprises are certain
about how best to manage the
move. Intelligent CIO spoke to
Johnny Karam, VP for Emerging
Markets, Veritas, to find out
what the major challenges are of
moving to the cloud.
V
eritas Technologies, a leader in
multi-cloud data management, has
announced the results of a global
survey spanning 13 countries indicating that
the majority of global organisations (56%)
operate with a cloud-first mentality when it
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