Germany-based Suse, a pioneer in enterprise open source software, said it will be showcasing its latest products at the upcoming Gitex Technology Week in Dubai, UAE.

The largest technology exchange and marketplace for Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, Gitex will be held from October 16 to 20 at the Dubai World Trade Centre.

Suse will display its four main product offerings for the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and Zero Downtime Environments - mission critical Enterprise Linux, private cloud, storage and Linux management, said a statement from the company.

Paul Abi-Chahine, regional director, Eastern Europe and MEA, said: “The ongoing digital transformation is redefining how enterprises do businesses across the globe and across verticals.”

“If regional organisations are to keep pace with their global competition it is critical for them to embrace the SDDC, a cornerstone of the digitised economy. The SDDCs virtualise all elements of the infrastructure such as networking, storage, security, and processing power and run it as a service,” he said.

“With the focus being on flexibility, scalability, and redundancy, the potential impact this will have on business models is significant,” he added.

With a presence at SAP’s stand, Suse will showcase Suse Enterprise Linux Server for SAP. This solution can ease deployment and increase uptime of mission-critical SAP solution-based workloads on Linux, including high availability features for the public cloud and updated optimisation for SAP Hana, thus saving customers time and reducing operating costs, it said.

Additionally, together with their value added distributor, Aptec Middle East, an Ingram Micro company, Suse will exhibit its open source infrastructure solutions – Enterprise Linux, OpenStack Private Cloud, Software-Defined-Storage and Linux Management - that offer a reliable, scalable and secure platform for efficiently deploying and managing highly available enterprise-class IT services in physical, virtual or cloud infrastructure, it stated.

Suse OpenStack Cloud delivers high availability enhancements and non-disruptive upgrades for future releases, along with Docker and IBM z Systems mainframe support to make it easier to move business-critical applications and data to the cloud.

Dubbing Gitex as the key IT event in the region, Abi-Chahine said: "There is a healthy appetite for open-source solutions and our priority is, together with our partners, to offer a variety of best-of-breed solutions to enterprises looking to modernise and standardise their IT infrastructure, leverage cloud computing and software-based storage solutions, and make use of new technologies like big data, all while achieving zero-downtime environments for their business-critical workloads."-TradeArabia News Service