Open Source Freedom: SUSE Leads Businesses Into the Digital Future

Open Source Freedom: SUSE Leads Businesses Into the Digital FutureJune 30th, 2024 marked a significant turning point in the open source community with the complete shutdown of all CentOS versions. As businesses become increasingly reliant on technology, the freedom to choose becomes paramount

Open Source Freedom: SUSE Leads Businesses Into the Digital Future

June 30th, 2024 marked a significant turning point in the open source community with the complete shutdown of all CentOS versions. As businesses become increasingly reliant on technology, the freedom to choose becomes paramount. SUSE, a global provider of open source solutions, held its SUSECON China 2024 Digital Innovation Summit in Shanghai under the theme "Cloud-Edge Convergence, AI Without Boundaries." The event brought together industry experts and technology leaders to explore how key technologies like cloud-native, edge computing, and generative AI can empower businesses to gain a sustainable competitive advantage in their digital transformation journeys.

During an interview with the media, SUSE Greater China President, Chen Yiwai, stated, "Throughout the history of software development, we've been witnessing a constant struggle between closed and open systems. Recent ecosystem changes indicate that some companies are becoming more closed and less customer-centric." As a global provider of enterprise-grade open source solutions, SUSE is empowering businesses with more choices and autonomy through open source, preventing vendor lock-in.

In response to challenges like the CentOS shutdown, SUSE has launched SUSELibertyLinux, allowing users to enjoy enterprise-grade support without migration, ensuring business continuity and stability. SUSE is dedicated to providing Chinese local businesses with solutions ranging from cloud-native to edge. The company shares success stories to provide Chinese clients with insights and guidance.

SUSE specializes in enterprise-grade Linux, enterprise container management, and edge solutions. Through collaboration with partners and the community, SUSE assists customers in innovating anytime, anywhere, in any scenario - whether it's in the data center, the cloud, or edge environments. SUSE reopens the doors to open source, allowing customers to flexibly address today's innovation challenges and freely develop their IT strategies and solutions in the future. Over 60% of Fortune 500 companies rely on SUSE to power their mission-critical workloads.

Re-Empowering Users with Technology Choices

Cutting-edge technologies, led by artificial intelligence, are comprehensively reshaping the future. The risks associated with introducing new technologies, however, cannot be overlooked. Choosing the appropriate technological path during digital transformation becomes a crucial question for every business. SUSE has always been dedicated to driving enterprise digital transformation through innovative open source technologies, while never neglecting its commitment to "openness."

Chen Yiwai noted, "Many of our clients have told us that within the open source software world, there are very few vendors offering enterprise-level services. For decades, collaboration and shared success have been the cornerstones of our open source community. At SUSE, we focus on preserving choice, ensuring that customers are not subject to vendor lock-in and have true options both now and in the future.

To assist enterprise users in building private AI, SUSE has launched the SUSEAI solution, a highly secure, modular, open-source generative AI platform that doesn't require binding to vendors or LLMs (Large Language Models). This platform is built upon SUSE's open-source enterprise-grade SUSELinux, RancherPrime container management platform, and NeuVector security products.

SUSENeuVector is the industry's only fully automated container security platform capable of identifying and understanding application-level threats. Through this platform, businesses can choose to run private generative AI internally or in the cloud, with complete autonomy to select the most suitable LLM, ensuring data privacy, compliance, and cost control.

Simultaneously, SUSE's acquisition of StackState, known as the "Eagle Eye System of the Container World," significantly enhances the observability of its cloud-native management platform, RancherPrime. StackState provides full-stack, end-to-end monitoring capabilities, automatically generating dependency maps between applications, microservices, and infrastructure resources. It offers features like troubleshooting guides, dynamic dashboards, and time travel capabilities, helping businesses monitor and manage large-scale cloud-native applications in real-time, improving efficiency and stability during digital transformation.

Serving the Chinese Market for Two Decades

SUSE has been committed to providing Chinese enterprises with innovative and reliable enterprise-grade open source solutions, empowering them to tackle digital transformation challenges. 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of SUSE's presence in China, a significant milestone signifying the company's long-term commitment to and investment in the Chinese market. This also signifies the company's flourishing growth in China and its entry into the AI era.

Over the past 20 years in China, SUSE has consistently strived to provide local businesses with comprehensive solutions spanning infrastructure, cloud-native, and edge, helping them navigate the complexities of digital transformation. At the SUSECON China 2024 Summit, SUSE shared numerous success stories of cloud-native edge deployments.

A multinational container shipping and logistics company with a well-known global brand in Hong Kong boasts a service network reaching across the world. In recent years, amidst rapid business growth, the company expanded from a few dozen Kubernetes cluster nodes to over 500. They needed to address complex hybrid cloud environments and dual-active architecture requirements while ensuring quick application release responses. It also required robust protection against cyberattacks during numerous external collaborative application releases.

SUSE designed a cloud-native architecture blueprint for the company, providing expert consultations and implementing products like RancherPrime and NeuVector. Within just over two years, SUSE successfully helped the client build a secure, efficient, and sustainable cloud-native platform.

Collaborating with Partners to Create the Future

At the summit, SUSE collaborated deeply with several leading industry partners to jointly provide innovative solutions for businesses, driving digital transformation and intelligent upgrades across various sectors. In areas like cloud-native, edge computing, and artificial intelligence, SUSE demonstrated its successful collaborations with Bianwuji, Alibaba Cloud, and Advantech, covering cloud-native and AI applications across diverse fields, from smart manufacturing to renewable energy, showcasing a wide range of application scenarios.

Bianwuji and SUSE jointly launched an integrated artificial intelligence Internet of Things platform framework based on unified standards. Alibaba Cloud and SUSE collaborated to build a cloud-edge coordinated AI solution, empowering enterprise users to fully leverage generative AI technologies. Advantech, leveraging its expertise in industrial automation, partnered with SUSE to develop intelligent factory and renewable energy solutions based on the K3S platform.

Alibaba Cloud, Xinyihongda, and oBosonLabs were recognized as "SUSE 2024 Outstanding Partners" for their exceptional contributions in business innovation and cloud-native technology services.

Edge Deployment: The Future Direction

With the acceleration of the Internet of Things and digital transformation, the era of cloud-native and edge computing has arrived. Edge deployment is becoming increasingly crucial under cluster management demands. Chen Yiwai remarked, "Edge devices are undeniably a significant area of future development."

In key edge computing industry scenarios like retail and manufacturing, SUSE provides unified, standardized containerized technologies that can meet the expanded security needs of container applications in distributed edge systems. It also offers cross-cloud, core data center to edge cloud-edge coordination capabilities.

SUSEEdge's three core advantages lie in its scalability and flexibility, automation and efficiency, and security and compliance. Through these capabilities, SUSEEdge empowers businesses to flexibly navigate complex edge computing environments, simplify operations, and ensure data security. Beyond that, SUSE offers a complete suite of solution services, from consulting, solution design, and implementation to production and ongoing support, enabling businesses to effortlessly tackle challenges in edge computing scenarios and accelerate their digital transformation.

The SUSECON Shanghai Summit not only brought forth new technological trends and best practices but also saw SUSE Asia Pacific CTO Vishal Ghariwala and SUSE Edge Solutions Director Katerina Arzhayev comprehensively showcase how SUSE products can leverage open-source, open technologies to build secure enterprise-grade AI architectures. They also elucidated how the convergence of cloud-native and edge computing can fuel innovation across industries.

As SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen stated in his opening remarks at this year's Shanghai Summit, "We are committed to unleashing the limitless potential of open source for your business, providing you with the freedom to choose the technology that best suits your needs." SUSE remains dedicated to empowering businesses with the freedom to choose their technology through open source, helping Chinese enterprises seize the initiative and achieve success in an ever-evolving landscape.