Today, the digital transformation has become a trend, there is no complete digital transformation of enterprises will be at a disadvantage in the fierce market competition has become a consensus. The data also proved this point, for example, in the manufacturing sector, after the company's digital transformation, to achieve 2.3% annual profit growth. By contrast, did not complete the manufacturing enterprise digital transformation, is showing profits in the same period of 2.1% of the profits.
Digital transformation and multimode platform
However, enterprises in the digital transformation of the current era, the most critical is the need to use the power of the cloud. Specifically, it is the enterprise must have the design, deployment, and the ability to run native cloud applications to micro-services-based. To this end, companies must be able to take advantage of this type of layout tools Kubernetes delivery of modern container application, to ensure the development and deployment from the edge, to mixed local and cloud cloudy environment can be safe and flexible. At the same time, the company's legacy systems are also widely used to carry mission-critical workloads, such as databases and ERP systems.
In short, the company is now the era of digital transformation, in fact, requires companies to have the ability to be able to simultaneously run native and traditional cloud systems, that is, its IT systems ranging from traditional IT infrastructure, there are relatively new, modern software-defined architecture, but also has the ability to multi-mode IT infrastructure that can manage this multi-mode workload, so as to smoothly complete digital transformation of enterprises.
SUSE global product marketing manager Raj Meel introduced multi-mode or modes, means there is modal 1 (steady state) and mode 2 (Min-state), mode 1 refers to the more traditional, such as data centers, etc. , mode 2 refers to the example of the container and some other more modern components. Mixing the two modes to form a current multimode system. In fact, many companies have the status of such multi-mode. For example, in the banking sector, five years ago, their application may just have a web client interface directly to the data center system to the background, but now, the online banking needs APP end of the phone through online banking interface, the APP it is actually microprocessor-based services and container, and ultimately to the back-end data center. In other words, between the container, the micro-service and cloud platforms as well as traditional IT data centers need to build bridges, and this bridge will be implemented by the multi-mode platform.
What companies need multimode platform
So, the current digital business transformation requires what kind of a multimode platform? Raj Meel think , the platform needs to have the following characteristics:
First, it must be open, which means that business users are locked case supplier does not appear. For example, SUES Linux Enterprise (hereinafter referred to as SLE) is a true open source, open. And this program is safe, but also has a very good record industry, because the platform system in this regard has been the deployment of 25-year history, we are very successful. In the application delivery layer, there are container-managed SUSE CaaS platform that supports Kubernetes. Another part of the platform as a service, SUSE cloud application platform also supports Cloud Foundry, and fully open source, vendor lock problem does not exist.
Second, it must have a common underlying code base, which is very important. The underlying code block may support all levels above. All products will use the same set of common code base, from the perspective of IT architects, to do system deployment and operation and maintenance of the overall design will become very easy. In other words, if there is a flaw on the server to patch it, just make a patch, you can make all products using a common code base regarded the patch install. This greatly simplifies the operation and maintenance of the entire IT infrastructure.
Third, it should be modular architecture, so you can make deployment easier. For example, SLE server version, it is actually a combination of many modules, it is a modular system. On this basis, the above can increase the variety of functions, such as the desktop version of the module, so that SLE can be deployed on the desktop. Also according to the needs, you can go to add other features, such as public cloud support, support for SAP support or container. So, multi-mode platform is designed to be modular, allowing deployment of enterprise easier.
SUSE what kind of multimode platform
As the world's first multi-mode operating system, SUSE Linux Enterprise has all the features needed to organize the modern enterprise digital transformation, but also has its own unique features, will help enterprises to continue innovation, competition and growth. In particular, announced in KubeCon during this year's SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP1, multi-mode operating system model has been improved, including the strengthening of the core principles of a common code base, the modularity and community development, while strengthening the business-critical features such as optimization load, strengthen data security, and reduce downtime.
Linux from the community level to enterprise-class Linux transition faster and simpler - developers and operators just a few clicks to transfer openSUSE Leap system to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Perfect SUSE Package Hub is also a huge help to the enterprise, making it a first-class community building applications on the platform of choice for enterprise products. These services to the production system and community-based development system level openSUSE Leap tremendous support.
Strengthen support for HPC workloads to the edge - in Service Pack 1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Arm 15 the number of processor support system on a chip (SoC) has more than doubled, to improve support for storage, as well as 64 Arm support of industrial automation applications on the server and the Internet of things equipment. Raspberry Pi device 64 to, for example, now support full HDMI audio and video, and provides for quick installation ISO image.
Downtime - can be updated at the same time the boot or services that run through the update function, reduce downtime. Thus the IT conventional, for example, mode 1 to the mode 2 to be converted when the update things, can also enjoy the advantage of reduced downtime. This technology was first deployed in SUSE CaaS platform above, is now extended to the whole platform, SUSE and this technology is exclusive.
Support Intel's Optane DC lasting memory and second-generation Intel Xeon processor is scalable - it can support enterprises to implement new applications, such as in-memory database. Thereby reducing the need to restart the necessary so that business users can benefit from among other loads or SAP HANA instance, SAP HANA can lift up to 5 times.
+ Module - through further harmonization of the installer or the Installation Manager, administrators can install additional modules stop. It also supports SUSE Manager Enterprise Real Time and QoS products.
SUSE engineering, Thomas Di Giacomo products and innovations president expressed: "SUSE Linux Enterprise is a modern modular operating system that simplifies multi-mode IT, improve operational efficiency of traditional IT infrastructure, providing an attractive for developers platform. Therefore, enterprises across local and public cloud environments, easily deploying and migrating business-critical workloads .SUSE adhering to the open concept, with partners and customers to favor suppliers to maintain cooperation, reduce service interruptions as much as possible, to help customers system needs to be based on business innovation and upgrading. "
Simplify the edge of the core to the cloud-based management
In order to help business users better edge, core and under the cloud of a multi-mode environment management, SUSE also launched SUSE Manager 4 and SUSE Manager for Retail 4 open source infrastructure management solutions. These two new products to help global companies DevOps and IT operations teams to reduce the complexity of IT assets, regain control of the power of IT assets, improve efficiency Subject to security policies, reduce operating costs by optimizing automation.
SUSE Manager 4 can be achieved first of all to reduce costs, simplify management, enhance the content lifecycle management, and simplify mobile management software package throughout the DevOps cycle by business users. Salt can also be based on virtual machine management solution that enables hundreds of servers in near real-time management. Second, companies can be further enhanced in the next generation of Prometheus monitoring stack-based monitoring and early warning capacity, improve availability and visibility, easy to locate and solve the problem. Finally, the operating system can be provided by strengthening support for enterprise customers the ability to deploy new SAP HANA, providing unprecedented convenience for the installation and configuration of SAP HANA to help reduce the complexity of the cozy environment of different IT regain control over their force.
Daniel Nelson, vice president of SUSE products and solutions, said: "Infrastructure Transformation SUSE help business users to software-defined, so that continuous innovation in today's market, competition and growth, we also provide enterprises with efficient management in a complex environment and operational tools .SUSE Manager can be achieved by a single centralized controller unified management of physical, virtual and cross-edge, core and cloud environments containerized system. it is part of the enterprise iT transformation, designed to lower costs, reduce complexity , and improve business agility. "
In addition, in the General Assembly on Kube, SUSE also further introduced SUSE application delivery solutions. SUSE chief technologist, Asia Pacific Peter Lees said, SUSE now offers two platforms, one CaaS (Container as a Service) platform, the other is a cloud application platform (Cloud as Platform). CaaS platform as a service container is tantamount Kubernetes release SUSE enterprise-class, cloud application platform is Cloud Foundry release.
CaaS platform can accelerate application delivery, simplifies the relevant use, while being able to form a very good and upstream seamless docking, but also provides a good convenience of development. CaaS platform is now in public beta third edition, brought a very important new feature is support for CRI-O runtime.
SUSE Cloud Application Platform dramatically simplifies the user difficulty in terms of the development of the container, as long as the source code for developers to import them into the system, the system will automatically compile the relevant code, and finally realize deployed on cloud platforms. Cloud Application Platform fully supports Kubernetes, while including support for real-time as well as the container of. So for any developer familiar Kubernetes environment, the use of cloud application platform will be very handy.
Finally, SUSE also provides users with a management terminal Stratos multi-cloud platform by Stratos, business users can easily be related to the workload to the cloud, whether in public or private clouds, the long and Cloud Foundry compatible can multi-cloud management. In addition, Stratos also supports local Kubernetes platform, while users can also take a very flexible strategy, such as in cloud application platforms, you can use CAP platform, you can do DevOps automation yourself, or choose another cloud platform, which gives and a user selection diversity.
SUSE company vice president, general manager, Asia Pacific and Japan, Jiang Yongqing concluded, "As a German open source software company, we have gone through 25 years, along the way is not easy. March 15 this year, we became a focus and open source independent software company. from 2014 to today, our business doubled three times, the staff turned over twice. we have been a leader in the open source world, it has become the world's largest independent open source software company. I hope that today released with native cloud cloud, a new eco-related products, to better help our customers in the digital transformation of this road go more smoothly. and we will always uphold the SUSE open source open (open, open) concept, to open Source, our contribution back to the open source community! "
