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.

Based on the Spacewalk open source project, SUSE Manager is the best solution for managing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and related extensions as well as Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It allows you to reduce the inherent complexity of managing multiple Linux distributions. It also manages Linux systems across diverse hardware architectures plus virtual and cloud environments. It gives you seamless systems management with a single centralized solution. SUSE Manager will also shortly have the capability to manage OES2 and OES11 server estates.

Securelinx is an award winning Platinum Certfied SUSE Partner and our engineers offer the highest levels of expertise and experience in designing, deploying and supporting enterprise solutions based on SUSE software.

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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

Microsoft Corp. and SUSE have announced a four-year extension to the groundbreaking agreement struck nearly five years ago between Microsoft and Novell Inc. for broad collaboration on Windows and Linux interoperability and support. This relationship will extend through Jan. 1, 2016, with Microsoft committed to invest $100 million in new SUSE Linux Enterprise certificates for customers receiving Linux support from SUSE.

Customer Momentum

As IT operating environments become increasingly consumerized, cloud-based and automated, there is an implicit expectation that the underlying technologies from multiple vendors should work together. For this reason, the collaborative relationship between Microsoft and SUSE has come to be viewed as a model for the industry.

Commenting on the interoperability agreement extension, Securelinx CEO Brian Farrell stated

Ensuring that Linux and Windows environments interoperate successfully has always been a key element of any Securelinx project delivery, and we are delighted to have been chosen by SUSE to formally drive the next phase of this agreement extension in Ireland

The joint Microsoft-SUSE collaboration has served more than 725 customers worldwide across a range of industries. SUSE enables customers to consolidate their Linux support by offering subscription support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and community Linux distributions such as CentOS.

Select international partners include ALSANET AG, Bechtle AG, Comparex AT, ErmesTel, Kelway Ltd., Liga Distribution ApS, NEXPERT AG, SCC, Securelinx Ltd., Softcat Ltd., Stover AS, Trustmarque Solutions Ltd. and 2e2.

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The Data Synchronizer Mobility Pack replaces GroupWise Mobile Server in providing synchronization between GroupWise mailboxes and mobile devices. The Mobility Pack includes Data Synchronizer, the GroupWise Connector, and the Mobility Connector.

Securelinx has already deployed this solution for a local Irish organisation enabling their mobile users to receive full email, contact, task and calendaring information, thus preserving their investment in GroupWise while integrating it with the very latest mobile device technologies that their users required.