SUSE and Microsoft Collaborate to Deliver First Enterprise Linux Kernel Optimised for Azure
Announcement posted by SUSE 21 Aug 2018
MELBOURNE – 21 August 2018 – SUSE® today announced the availability of the first enterprise Linux kernel tailored for Microsoft Azure. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 on-demand instances now run on a custom-tuned kernel for workloads on Microsoft Azure that provides enhanced performance and faster boot speeds along with a decreased memory footprint. The Azure-tuned kernel enables faster access to new and upcoming Azure features, helping customers to be more agile. SUSE is working with Microsoft and other partners to adapt and secure open source solutions that allow customers to manage complexity, reduce cost and deliver business-critical services that power digital transformation.
“SUSE’s collaboration with Microsoft is based on
meeting customers’ evolving needs, enabling innovation and minimising
disruption to their business,” said Gerald Pfeifer, vice president of Products and
Technology Programs at SUSE. “Optimised SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server for Azure public cloud users is a direct result of SUSE’s open,
open source approach to solving real-world customer challenges.”
KY Srinivasan, general manager, Enterprise
Open Source Group at Microsoft Corp., said, “We’ve worked closely with SUSE to
ensure customers using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server have a first-class
experience with Microsoft Azure. The new Azure-tuned kernel allows those
customers to quickly take advantage of new Azure services such as Accelerated
Networking with SR-IOV, Write Accelerator and other functionality on a cadence
that aligns with the Azure engineering team’s release cycle.”
Customers can expect SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 to have measurable performance benefits, including a potentially 25 percent faster network throughput and a 23 percent reduction in average latency. By default, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 instances on Azure will run on this custom-tuned kernel, although customers have the flexibility to easily switch back to the standard kernel using the package manager, Zypper. In addition to the Azure-tuned kernel, customers using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on Azure benefit from a number of tools and resources for cloud-native deployments that are part of the SUSE Public Cloud Module, such as the ability to manage Azure resources through a Linux command prompt.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with the Microsoft Azure-tuned kernel is now available in the Azure Marketplace with standard pricing and support. For more information about Azure and SUSE, visit www.suse.com/microsoft.
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