Novell recently announced the availability of SUSE® Linux
Enterprise 11, containing enhancements to SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop.
As data centers become more heterogeneous, customers are
demanding a cost-effective platform that can run their applications
reliably and with high performance on any hardware platform and
hypervisor as well as in appliances and cloud computing
infrastructures. With SUSE Linux Enterprise 11, Novell says that it
is delivering the Linux platform to allow customers to economically
deploy workloads wherever and however they choose, with support
from Novell and its global partner ecosystem of solution and
hardware providers and independent software vendors (ISVs).
“A recent survey conducted by IDC and sponsored by Novell
confirmed that around 50 percent of IT executives are planning to
increase their adoption of Linux server and desktop technologies
this year because of the economic downturn,” said Jeff Jaffe,
chief technology officer at Novell.
The platform contains major enhancements to SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and delivers
two new extensions – SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono®
Extension, enabling customers to run fully supported Microsoft
.NET-based applications on Linux, and SUSE Linux Enterprise High
Availability Extension, a clustering product that ensures uptime
for mission-critical applications while slashing the cost of
ownership for high availability. SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 was
designed using three core themes: ubiquity, interoperability and
mission-critical computing.
“As virtualization realizes its full potential and cloud
computing begins to transform the data center, operating systems
need to be engineered to enable these new solutions,” said
Matt Eastwood, group vice president at IDC. “By fully
supporting physical, virtual, appliance and cloud computing models
with SUSE Linux Enterprise, Novell can help customers at each step
in the evolution of the data center.”
Paul Miller, vice president of Marketing, Enterprise Servers and
Storage at HP, said, “Deploying Linux for highly available
core business applications is a reality that HP and Novell are
delivering today on HP Integrity and ProLiant servers running SUSE
Linux Enterprise.”