SUSE introduced the latest Enterprise Storage version, which is now reaching the sixth incarnation. This is a storage variant of Linux, constructed around the Ceph technology, as the name indicates. Ceph is an open source storage platform that has the benefit of operating on conventional hardware (not requiring particular platforms) and replicating and distributing information on various servers compared to proprietary alternatives. We could describe it as a kind of RAID-0 array distributed on various servers instead of various hard disks in a very imprecise but efficient manner. Ceph promotes both self-healing and self-management, making network administrators ' lives much simpler.
"SUSE makes digital transformation possible through flexible open source solutions such as SUSE Enterprise Storage that enable businesses to innovate, compete and grow on an continuing basis"-said Brent Schroeder, SUSE's CTO Americas-" We work with the community to create innovative open source technologies that we then test and reinforce to ensure that they are ready for business.
What are SUSE Enterprise Storage 6's advantages?
The objective of this fresh version is to enable those who use it to adapt rapidly to the ever-changing requirements. In practice, this implies that businesses adopting it can do without binding on a particular hardware and, above all, software maker: SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 makes it possible to depend on public cloud resources, which are often cheaper and less binding than other alternatives.
However, from the network administrator's point of perspective, the benefit is that it can transfer funds from one point to another with ease and be able to readily scale when the demands require it.
Who is responsible for SUSE Enterprise Storage 6?
SUSE Enterprise Storage clients also include the University of Maine, which utilizes it on one of its study programs dedicated HPCs. SUSE Enterprise Storage has already generated undisputed improvements for our deep learning projects, one of which needed the existence of two million documents in the same folder'-explained Steve Cousins, University of Maine's supercomputer technician-' Inserting these files into SUSE Enterprise Storage has enhanced efficiency by more than 10 times over the prior storage.
According to Amita Potnis, Research Director of IDC's Enterprise Infrastructure Practice, "SUSE's focus on cloud and containers within SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 is in line with the direction businesses are taking today. Companies are transforming their IT infrastructure to take benefit of cloud technology while dealing with increasing amounts of cloud infrastructure.