SUSE To Join Dell Emerging Solutions Ecosystem

SUSE, an open source software service provider, has announced at Dell World that it was selected to join Dell’s Emerging Solutions Ecosystem as an open source cloud solution provider. The ecosystem drives collaborative innovation by providing a single point of contact to complementary, best-of-breed hardware, software and services in emerging technology areas such as open source cloud and Big Data. Customers will be able to purchase SUSE Cloud, an automated cloud computing platform, directly from Dell to accelerate cloud computing deployments in order to respond and adapt to constantly changing customer demands and capitalise immediately on new market opportunities.

Launched in August 2012, SUSE Cloud is the first enterprise-ready, private cloud solution to help customers improve resource utilisation and speed the delivery of IT services across a secure, compliant and fully supported cloud environment. SUSE Cloud combines the power of the OpenStack project and the flexibility of the Dell Crowbar project with SUSE engineering excellence and support. The result simplifies deployment and ongoing administration of the physical cloud infrastructure so customers have maximum flexibility to configure their clouds to meet specific needs.

“SUSE Cloud leverages the Dell-developed Crowbar framework so our customers can more easily and quickly deploy OpenStack-powered private clouds,” said Michael Miller, Vice President of Global Alliances and Marketing, SUSE. “We’re pleased to be part of Dell’s Emerging Solutions Ecosystem and looking forward to collaborating more with Dell and other ecosystem partners to deliver solutions customers can use to build OpenStack clouds in hours instead of days.”

“As cloud computing continues to be a top priority for CIOs in 2013, many organisations are looking to quickly realise the benefits of open source clouds," said John Igoe, Executive Director of Cloud and Big Data Solutions, Dell. “By having SUSE join our Emerging Solutions Ecosystem, customers will be able to ease the deployment and management of Linux-based private clouds with SUSE Cloud.”

SUSE is helping its customers build future-proof private clouds by working closely with open source projects and partners who are committed to the open source vision for OpenStack. Currently, SUSE has in place technical collaboration and/or support agreements with members of Dell’s Emerging Solutions Ecosystem including Dell, OpenStack Foundation, Crowbar Project, Mirantis, Inktank and Ceph.

Hands-on training events, hosted at Dell Solution Centers, are available to help customers fully understand how to build an OpenStack-based private cloud using Dell PowerEdge C servers and SUSE Cloud.