Shortfacts - December 2018


Intelligent software-defined storage solution
Suse introduces Suse Enterprise Storage 5.5. With a standardized software-defined storage cluster, the solution offers object, block and file storage. The new version also includes openATTIC extensions and open stack integration.
Based on the Ceph Luminous release, Suse Enterprise Storage 5.5 is suitable for bulk storage, compliance, archiving, data protection, large data file and big data applications, HPC storage and cloud storage.
The current version includes improvements in performance, stability and administration. It also has production support for CIFS/Samba for Ceph, which improves the capabilities of Suse Enterprise Storage in dealing with non-Linux systems, especially Windows.