SUSECON2014: The most gorgeous "open source" spirit

Over the past two weeks, the author has participated in two very important meetings in the industry, Amazon Re:invent and SUSECon2014. Compared to the Amazon re:invent of the million people assembly, this article I would like to say that a small but very hard SUSECon2014 congress. The theme for the "Synch open" open source event is Susecon's third event, leaving the author's most impressive theme song "Modifiable is open", just like the small Apple comedy general, heard the brain will reverberate "modifiable is Open "melody, I believe this is also SuSE wants to pass to us its very important tag--" open ".

Figure: Theme song "Modifiable is Open" MV screenshot

The theme of "Synch Open" undoubtedly releases the uniqueness of this Congress. The values of openness and freedom are embodied in the field meeting process, itinerary arrangement and activity content. One of the hottest rock ' n ' roll started the SUSECON2014 conference, unlike other conventions, there was no regular keynote speech, SUSE Global marketing director Michael Miller appeared on the talk show, and the whole talk show showed us the freedom of the Conference, Also shows SuSE's attitude towards openness.

Photo: SuSE Global marketing Director Michael Miller

Synch open--as a theme throughout the talk show, a variety of open source small ideas interspersed among them. In his opening speech, Michael Miller said that, through the survey, the user's eyes of the SuSE has six keywords, including technical, Reliable, predictable, Quality, secure and safe, it is easy to associate with the German car. Micheal Miller believes that this is also the source of the spirit to convey, safe and reliable security.

Figure: SuSE in the user's eyes have six key words

With regard to the "open source" in SuSE's eyes, Michael Miller elaborated on a very humorous and easily remembered game show style. Before explaining the open source definition, let's take a look at two ways about "how open Are"? "Open question:

Photo: How open are you?

Picture: Here's the problem!

1. Need a car, and your find one like at a local used car lot. The salesperson says, "You should buy this car because it are open source." What does that score?

Answer:it would likely implies crash,always Run,and implies freeze in Evan.

2. A daughter and EHR boyfriend visit EHR parents, and announce that tightly are. EHR father says, "Hold on a moment, I have one question unreported I can agree to this Union." Are you ... open source? What does he score?

The answer:he is trying to ascertain whether the young mans is reliable,stable and adaptable.

If you're a suitor for open source technology, it's not hard to believe these two problems. Yes, from what we can see, in SuSE's eyes, open source is "reliable, 0 downtime, stable, scalable" synonymous.

The talk show hosted by Micheal Miller, SUSE President Nils Brauckmann and Micro Focus's executive chairman Kevin Loosemore as the first group of guests on the stage to share the group of people are very concerned about the set of data. SUSE Linux before the parent company Attachmate Group was recently acquired by Micro Focus, this is SUSE's 3rd club, the first was the 2004 Novell acquisition, after Novell in 2011 by private equity company Attachmate acquisition, This time the Attachmate group, including Suse,novell,netiq and attachmate four companies together with a total price of 1.2 billion U.S. dollars of prices by Micro Focus acquisition.

Photo: SuSE President Nils Brauckmann (left), Micro Focus Executive Chairman Kevin Loosemore (middle)

Loosemore, who received Micheal Miller's "interview", showed great confidence in SuSE's growth and revealed the financial situation in the first half of the 2015 fiscal quarter, directly giving key data on SuSE: Total subscriptions grew by 27% compared to the previous fiscal year, Revenue grew by 16%, with new business subscriptions growing fast, up to 65%, including SuSE Cloud, working with SAP HANA, predicting that the q3-q4 quarter would exceed expectations.

Figure: Total subscriptions increased by 27%

Figure: New business subscriptions grow rapidly, up to 65%

Such an important meeting naturally involves the release of new products. This conference, SUSE released three new products, including SUSE Storage beta preview, SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching and Amazon Network Service test driver. With regard to the features of new products, SUSE has introduced the features of new products to participants through the production of several cheerful and playful short videos. The videos have been made public on YouTube and interested friends can watch for themselves.

1. SUSE Storage Beta Preview

SUSE storage is a distributed software storage solution for enterprise customers that can achieve self healing and self-management. With SuSE storage and commercial finished (COTS) disk arrays, customers can meet their growing demand for object storage, archival storage, and bulk storage at a more economical cost. Based on the Firefly version of the Ceph Open source project, the total cost of ownership can be reduced, which is more suitable for object storage, archival storage and bulk storage. Its features include caching tiering, allocating storage resources on demand, remote replication, write-copy cloning, and erasure codes. SUSE Storage is scheduled for release in the first half of 2015.

2. SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching

This product enables Linux enterprise users to patch the system without rebooting, helping to reduce downtime costs and increase service availability. SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching is based on the Kgraft project, which provides a package stream to implement kernel updates without disruption. Unlike some of the other Linux kernel real-time patches, SUSE Linux Enterprise Live patching does not need to shut down the entire system when performing repairs. Because it is a fully open source solution, it makes it easy to review the patch source code. SuSE is being approached by the upstream community to ensure that all Linux, especially SuSE Linux Enterprise, can receive real-time kernel patches in the future.

Subscribers can now provide SUSE Linux Enterprise Live patching via subscriptions to the compatible server, based on SUSE Linux Enterprise server 12 delivery.

3. Amazon Network Service (AWS) test driver based on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server

This is the first Amazon Network Service (AWS) test driver based on the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server. The AWS test driver for security information Services is provided free of charge, and customers can use it to try out digitally registered mail solutions that are secure, reliable, and that meet international protocols and standards. AWS test drivers combine SUSE Linux Enterprise Servers, WSO2 Enterprise service buses, and Yenlo Digilink (digikoppeling) To ensure communication security between government and enterprise. SUSE plans to launch a series of AWS test drivers, the first of which is the security information service. It is provided in the form of "Software as a Service" (SaaS) that users can test for free through the AWS cloud.

Unlike most of the keynote speeches, 2-hour "talk show" style shows, the author involved in the whole, in a cheerful and humorous atmosphere to understand SuSE want to convey the content, and do not say the content of good or bad, which the intention of the author is very touched. A "modifiable is open" theme song lets you remember the SuSE release of the "open source" spirit, which is suse very important tag, because as a German company engaged in Linux business, SuSE success is not only the commercialization of Linux, It also includes the development and advancement of Open source technology.