Commenting on the event Brian Farrell, CEO of Securelinx “Once again Red Hat has put on an excellent event and provided valuable insights into their expanding solution portfolio. Securelinx will waste no time in sharing this information amongst our growing customer base”

“One of the many benefits of participation in the Advisory Panel is that it gives us early insights to internal developments within SUSE. We meet with senior figures and decision-makers from the organization, blend our organisational cultures and forge relationships that can be leveraged to maximum value by our customers”

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) is a complete virtualization management solution and is the first enterprise-ready, fully open-source virtualization platform. RHEV represents a true virtualization alternative for organizations looking for better total cost of ownership, faster return on investment and avoidance of vendor lock-in when compared to proprietary virtualization vendors.

Commenting on this success, Brian Farrell CEO at Securelinx stated

We are delighted with this solution provision as it is one of the first RHEV based platforms to be delivered in Ireland. The use case as a full environment for software verification and acceptance testing is an excellent example of where RHEV
flexibility and cost can bring genuine customer benefits.

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What’s more interesting, though, is the trends that emerge from the very latest reporting quarter, Q4. Linux was the only operating system that saw a revenue increase in servers Q4, with a 2.2 percent rise. Windows lost 1.5 percent and Unix 10.7 percent.

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Dublin – February, 2012 – Securelinx, a provider of enterprise Linux solutions has recently been awarded the Advanced Business Partner status by Red Hat.

Advanced Business Partner status recognises Securelinx as a strategic partner to Red Hat in Ireland – providing market-leading experience and expertise in supporting Red Hat Linux solutions across a range of industry sectors and Government departments.

Securelinx has enjoyed a relationship with Red Hat dating back to 2002, when it was one of only very few local organisations to promote the growing relevance of Linux to the enterprise.

Today, Securelinx provides a depth of experience and Linux domain knowledge that is unrivalled by competitors – a key differentiator that is recognised and valued by a loyal and growing customer base.

Brian Farrell, MD at Securelinx notes:

Red Hat has significant presence across enterprise Linux deployments and we are delighted to have been recognised for our work in support of customers by Red Hat Linux.

As SUSE offers the broadest application portfolio as well as optimization with the VMware cloud infrastructure suite, Dell customers can now efficiently run a wide range of ISV applications on demand with maximum performance, while also receiving streamlined support from Dell and SUSE across the Dell public and private cloud offerings.

Securelinx as both a Platinum Partner for SUSE and Professional Services Linux Partner with Dell welcomes this announcement as it offers Irish SME’s the opportunity to leverage SUSE as the perfect Linux VMware guest on rock solid Dell infrastructure, a combination that has served many of our enterprise customers well to date.

Green earmarked big datacentre projects in the city as a key battleground for SUSE and its channel.
“We are very customer driven in that we believe in open flexibility as well as open source,” he said. “We are in a great position as we are the preferred Linux distributor for both VMware and Microsoft, which have 80 per cent of the [virtualisation] hypervisor market between them. We are looking to invest more resources in these [VMware and Microsoft] partners that can get us into these fights.”

SUSE – which has a global turnover of $190m – was split out from Novell following the closure of its parent’s acquisition by Attachmate in April.

“Unleashing the SUSE brand enables us to be much clearer in the way we articulate our message to the channel and customers,” he said. “More importantly, partners now know exactly who to interact with in the Attachmate Group in relation to the Linux opportunity. If you are in a competitive situation and need to be creative commercially, the speed is that much faster as we have taken away those layers.”

In July, Microsoft committed another $100m investment in SUSE Linux for collaboration on Windows and Linux interoperability support. Green said the investment should eradicate any nagging doubts over whether or not Attachmate is committed to Novell’s products.

“A $60bn software company has just invested $100m in the future of SUSE, on an exclusive basis, until January 2016 – this is not a bad endorsement that they think our products are going to be around for some time,” he said.

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Winner: Partnering Excellence Award — Securelinx

The award honours SUSE partners for delivering superior customer solutions during the past year. The award winner was selected from Ireland and UK SUSE Partners, and based on their commitment to clients and exemplary use of SUSE technologies.

Securelinx and SUSE joined forces in a unique partnership in 2004 to offer compelling infrastructure solutions to clients. Securelinx delivers solutions utilising SUSE technology. Clients realise the benefits of SUSE by combining award winning software with Securelinx’s business consulting approach, unique field experience and depth of SUSE technical skills. These benefits include reduced cost, increased efficiency, reduced complexity and manageable business growth.

“Securelinx have been consistently first class in their partnering approach, as well as driving the SUSE Linux message into the market, Securelinx’s customer support excellence has ensured a very strong customer retention rate. …We at SUSE love working alongside the Securelinx team” – Brian Green, Managing Director, SUSE UK & Ireland.

Brian Farrell, CEO Securelinx says, “This award is great testament to the Securelinx-SUSE partnership which is benefiting many mutual clients. Securelinx and SUSE work closely together – as indeed is the case for our work with other partners in the channel. We look forward to further successes together in 2012.”

Today’s announcement extends Securelinx’s existing relationship with SUSE, working together to help clients design, build and support IT infrastructures that fit with business requirements. Securelinx’s range of consulting, systems integration and outsourcing skills complements SUSE’s business model and the Award builds-upon Securelinx’s well-established reputation as the field-leading Partner for SUSE in Ireland.

Once more a standalone company within the Attachmate Group – SUSE Linux is engaging in Ireland with renewed focus on technical, commercial and support value propositions for customers, this focus is in turn driving increased adoption for this acclaimed Linux platform.

Further information on the future of SUSE can be found by clicking on the link below:

• The Future Of SUSE

Welcoming this membership announcement Brian Farrell Securelinx CEO stated

One of the aims of the OVA is to encourage interoperability, promote best practices, and highlight examples of customer successes…. goals that Securelinx supports across all our Intelligent Linux Infrastructure offerings and so we look forward to sharing these virtualisation technologies with our customers.

Further details on the OVA can be found at openvirtualisationalliance.org