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Beta of SUSE Cloud 2.0 Launches

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SUSE has launched beta testing of SUSE Cloud 2.0, giving customers an early look at the latest enterprise-ready technology for building private clouds. Based on OpenStack Grizzly core technology (the latest evolution of the OpenStack project).

SUSE Cloud 2.0 features enhanced installation and management, more hypervisor support options, and hardened technology from OpenStack projects for networking and storage. Additional support for partner solutions such as Cisco and EMC will further enable enterprises to deploy private clouds that fit their existing infrastructure.

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SUSE Cloud 2.0 is the next version of SUSE Cloud, the original enterprise-ready OpenStack distribution for building Infrastructure-as-a-Service private clouds," said Michael Miller, vice president of global alliances and marketing for SUSE.

Improved Installation, Additional Hypervisor Choice, Enhanced Storage and Networking

SUSE Cloud 2.0 builds on the open source development of OpenStack to deliver advanced cloud technology and the broadest solution choice to ensure smooth deployment of a private cloud into an enterprise data center. The SUSE Cloud Administration Server has been augmented for even greater scalability through integration with the latest release of the open source deployment framework Crowbar and an updated user interface. To enable SUSE customers to maximize their previous technology investments, SUSE Cloud 2.0 continues its mixed hypervisor approach, adding full support for Microsoft Hyper-V and a technical preview of VMware ESXi.

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In addition, SUSE Cloud 2.0 expands cloud storage options via full support for the OpenStack Block Storage, Cinder. Cinder lets organizations provide persistent block storage at the virtual machine level. Cinder is also extensible with third-party solutions, so enterprises can plug in devices from their preferred storage vendors. SUSE is working with partners such as Coraid, EMC, Inktank and NetApp to give SUSE Cloud users a broad choice of supported block storage plug-ins. SUSE Cloud 2.0 will also include the Ceph Rados Gateway providing compatible Swift and Amazon S3 (Simplified Storage Service) APIs for block storage using Ceph. Support for Amazon EC2 and S3 APIs helps companies choosing to deploy hybrid clouds by providing easy access to Ceph's fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing or retrieving any amount of data in the cloud.

Networking features in SUSE Cloud 2.0 are augmented via full support of OpenStack Networking, Neutron. SUSE Cloud delivers networking-as-a-service capabilities that offer scalable network management, an API to build rich network topologies, and the ability to create advanced network services. SUSE Cloud 2.0 networking will be plug-in enabled for extended capabilities offered by Cisco, Midokura, Open Vswitch and VLAN bridging.

SUSE Cloud 2.0 is scheduled for release in the fall following beta testing. For details on how to join the beta, contact SUSE at cloud@suse.com. For additional information on SUSE Cloud, see www.suse.com/cloud

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