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SUSE Software-Defined Storage Leverages Open Source to Break Proprietary Lock-in and Reduce Customer CostsPRAGUE, Sept. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- (SUSECON 2017) -- The power of storage solutions has always resided in the software, and SUSE® software-defined storage is giving customers more flexibility and choice than traditional storage appliances provide. It allows them to meet their growing storage needs more securely and cost effectively using industry-standard hardware and open source-based software-defined storage solutions. Accordingly, SUSE today introduced SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 with enhanced ease of management, improved performance and expanded features including new disk-to-disk backup capabilities for enterprise customers. "Every generation of enterprise infrastructure innovation is now being built on open source," said Gerald Pfeifer, vice president of Products and Technology Programs at SUSE. "SUSE is expert at both contributing to and using upstream innovation to create enterprise-grade, secure solutions that can be combined with other technologies to best address customer needs. This approach applied to software-defined storage delivers highly scalable solutions that radically reduce storage costs in terms of both capital and operations expense." Gartner analysts noted in a recent Cool Vendor report, "It has become painfully evident that storage capacity demands, and expectations for far more rapid provisioning of that storage, have far outpaced the ability of [infrastructure and operations] teams' capabilities. Far-more-automated systems are required to restore a sense of balance, that is, storage solutions that offer much greater scale, but also much more automation."* SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 is the first commercial offering to suppor the new BlueStore backend within Ceph. This follows SUSE's first-to-market support for iSCSI and CephFS in previous versions of SUSE Enterprise Storage. Customer benefits of this release include:
Disk-to-disk backup in SUSE Enterprise Storage In addition, the need for a separate deduplication device (a sophisticated device usually associated with proprietary solutions that is designed to reduce the overall storage volume by eliminating duplicated data) is eliminated through advanced backup software that provides deduplication services. SUSE is certified with leaders in enterprise backup software, including Commvault and Veritas, all of which feature built-in deduplication. In a recent total cost of ownership comparison of disk backup solutions, software-defined storage in general and SUSE specifically came out on top. According to IT Brand Pulse, "The cost data says SUSE is the clear value leader led by best-in-class pricing model which includes support in the software license and, unlike others where license costs are front-loaded, the cost of a software is spread out evenly over the five years." SUSE Enterprise Server 5 will be available in the fourth quarter. For more information, visit www.suse.com/storage. *Gartner, "Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2017," Dave Russell, Arun Chandrasekaran, Julia Palmer, Raj Bala, Alan Dayley, Pushan Rinnen, Garth Landers, 12 May 2017. About SUSE Copyright 2017 SUSE LLC. All rights reserved. SUSE and the SUSE logo are registered trademarks of SUSE LLC in the United States and other countries. All third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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