Visit SuSE Global Marketing Director Michael Miller: Product focus for the coming year

Prior to the SUSECON2014 conference on the theme "Synch Open", CSDN reporter interviewed SuSE global marketing director Michael Miller, although only 20 minutes in an interview. But in his communication with Michael, I learned about Michael's knowledge of the cloud market, the layout of SuSE's products, his understanding of partners, and his views on new technologies.

Photo: SuSE Global Marketing Director Michael Miller (right), SuSE North American sales Vice President Edwin L Bowman (left)

In Michael's view, cloud computing is divided into two levels-public and private clouds. Over the past few years, the public cloud market has matured, compared to the current market is not only concerned about engineers, software testing, and began to focus on the platform, enterprise core applications in the public cloud environment, this is a very big change. Another level is that the private cloud infrastructure or openstack,linux is not only a choice of the public cloud environment operating system, it is also a private cloud infrastructure or a choice of OpenStack, and OpenStack has become a very successful community, With a lot of support from the industry and developers, many companies are leveraging OpenStack to deploy enterprise-class applications, such as high-availability, security, and so on.

For China's public-sector cloud market, Michael says the Chinese market is unique, and Chinese customers need to keep their data in China so that global companies will understand this and adapt to it if they want to enter the Chinese market. On the special strategy of the Chinese market, Michael says it cannot be called a special strategy, because the Chinese market is part of the overall strategy of SUSE, but it also says SuSE we will listen to local customers and partners, only that we are very concerned about the needs of our customers and partners.

This conference, SUSE released three new products, including SUSE Storage beta preview, SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching and Amazon Network Service test driver. For the next phase of SUSE's strategic focus, Michael illustrates the following three major priorities:

1. OpenStack: SuSE will focus on OpenStack enterprise-class deployment tools to provide customers with high availability, security, and manageability enterprise-level deployment tools;

2. Linux Enterprise server: This is the core product of SuSE, currently the latest version is Linux Enterprise Server 12, this session we launched the SUSE Linux Enterprise Live patching, It helps reduce downtime costs by allowing Linux enterprise users to patch the system without rebooting. 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.

3. Storage Products: SUSE storage is a distributed software storage solution for enterprise customers, self-healing and self-management, which is scheduled to be released in the first half of 2015. In the future, SUSE will further integrate this product into its private cloud solution.

Michael has emphasized to the author that SuSE is not a product, not everything, but the choice of technical areas of their own expertise and the quality of these technologies to provide customers with a guaranteed, so the products are important. In the near future, SuSE will be committed to fusing OpenStack distributions with software-defined storage offerings, with partners providing high availability, security, and manageability products.

In any era, cooperation and competition are unavoidable topics. In terms of cooperation, SUSE with many cloud computing providers. When asked about the collaboration between Amazon AWS and MicroSoft Azure, Michael said the two cloud computing vendors were just two partners in the partnership, SUSE in China We also have a lot of partners, such as Tencent, SuSE for partners are the same strategy, There is no difference in treatment, is the same as the same way of cooperation and equity.

Competition, people in the industry often take red hat and suse contrast, a red and green comparison is also quite clear. These two companies initially commercialized Linux, both for enterprise-class customer service and as contributors to OpenStack code. When Michael answers this question, he also asks the author where his competitor is, to see his confidence in SuSE. He also avoided rivals and answered the question from the side. He said SUSE China was founded nine years ago, SUSE Linux is the most popular Linux commercial edition in China. In addition, SAP as an important partner, SUSE Linux Enterprise Integrated Hana Technology, by the vast number of customers love, grow very fast!