SUSE Linux Enterprise Server now coming to the IBM Cloud

SUSE, a German-based multinational  open-source software company, announced that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications will be available as an operating system for SAP® solutions on the IBM Cloud.

Now IBM Cloud is a SUSE Cloud Service Provider which supports its customers by providing open source platform which makes them more agile, reducts operational costs where customers only pay for what they use, deploy and deliver business-critical workloads in SAP NetWeaver and SAP HANA® in the cloud.

"Customers need access to a secure and scalable cloud platform to run mission-critical workloads, one with the speed and agility of IBM Cloud, one of the largest open public cloud deployments in the world," said Phillip Cockrell, SUSE vice president of Worldwide Alliance Sales. "As 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."

"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," said Jay Jubran, director of Offering Management, IBM Cloud.