SUSE Unveils Major Rebranding, New Data-Protecting AI Platform (zdnet.com) 7
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet, written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols: At KubeCon North America, SUSE announced a significant rebranding effort, several new product offerings, and the launch of SUSE AI, a secure platform for deploying and running generative AI (gen AI) applications. SUSE has renamed its entire portfolio to make product names more descriptive and customer-friendly. Notable changes include:
- Rancher, SUSE's Kubernetes offering, is now SUSE Rancher.
- Liberty Linux, the company's Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)/CentOS clone and support offering, becomes SUSE Multi Linux Support.
- Harvester is rebranded as SUSE Virtualization
- Longhorn is now SUSE Storage.
[...] Also, like everyone else, SUSE now has an AI offering: SUSE AI. This isn't an AI chatbot, like Red Hat's Lightspeed AI tool. No, it's a secure platform for deploying and running gen AI applications. This new offering addresses key challenges faced by enterprises as they move from AI experimentation to deployment, particularly in areas of security and compliance. These are SUSE AI's top features, as highlighted by Vaughan-Nichols:
1. Security by Design: SUSE AI provides security and certifications at the software infrastructure level, along with zero-trust security tools, templates, and compliance playbooks.
2. Multifaceted Trust: The platform ensures that generated data is correct and private customer and IP data remain secure. It supports deployment across various environments, including on-premise, hybrid, cloud, and air-gapped setups.
3. Choice and Flexibility: SUSE AI allows customers to select and deploy their preferred AI components and LLMs.
4. Simplified Operations: The platform provides simplified cluster operations, persistent storage, and easy access to pre-configured shared tools and services.
- Rancher, SUSE's Kubernetes offering, is now SUSE Rancher.
- Liberty Linux, the company's Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)/CentOS clone and support offering, becomes SUSE Multi Linux Support.
- Harvester is rebranded as SUSE Virtualization
- Longhorn is now SUSE Storage.
[...] Also, like everyone else, SUSE now has an AI offering: SUSE AI. This isn't an AI chatbot, like Red Hat's Lightspeed AI tool. No, it's a secure platform for deploying and running gen AI applications. This new offering addresses key challenges faced by enterprises as they move from AI experimentation to deployment, particularly in areas of security and compliance. These are SUSE AI's top features, as highlighted by Vaughan-Nichols:
1. Security by Design: SUSE AI provides security and certifications at the software infrastructure level, along with zero-trust security tools, templates, and compliance playbooks.
2. Multifaceted Trust: The platform ensures that generated data is correct and private customer and IP data remain secure. It supports deployment across various environments, including on-premise, hybrid, cloud, and air-gapped setups.
3. Choice and Flexibility: SUSE AI allows customers to select and deploy their preferred AI components and LLMs.
4. Simplified Operations: The platform provides simplified cluster operations, persistent storage, and easy access to pre-configured shared tools and services.
New AI focus on the eve of AI Winter? (Score:1)
Bold move.
To the SUSE Branding Team (Score:2, Funny)
> Rancher, SUSE's Kubernetes offering, is now SUSE Rancher.
Nice work fellas.
Re: (Score:1)
You know someone had to pay big consulting bucks for that one...
Re: To the SUSE Branding Team (Score:2)
SUSE still hard to follow... (Score:5, Interesting)
They are clearly having a bit of an identity crisis and are churning, but it's complicated to keep track of their core stuff.
SUSE Linux Enterprise, 15 might be the last traditional distribution they release, or maybe not. They might do 16 as a traditional, or they might do 16 as a container based approach, or it might be a different brand, or it might not be a thing at all. If you are a SUSE shop though, the current state is rough since 15 is rooted in 6 year old software with no signs of a new release.
The SUSE Multi Linux support is a bit of a head scratcher. Ok, maybe they decided to make another clone, and decided to just be another RHEL clone, but seemingly they only offer repositories to update RHEL/CentOS without an install. For RHEL, the question is "why bother?", for CentOS 7/8 sure, but those folks have been cut off for a while now so they don't seem to be a big demographic to target now (either they migrated to a supported distribution, or they won't bother at all). SUSE made a whole bunch of noise about how "weird" RedHat was being about their distribution, and their ultimate answer to that is to be even weirder about it.
If they declared "ok, we give up on making a distribution, now we are just doing upper level open source software", I could respect it. But as it stands it just seems weird to me.
SUSE Storage (formerly SUSE Storage) (Score:1)
openSUSE rebranding (Score:2)
I was excepting news about the (future) openSUSE rebranding. This is rather uninteresting in comparison.