SUSE announced new cloud native edge computing capabilities as part of the general availability of SUSE Edge 3.1. New features enable enterprises to improve operational efficiency and deploy innovations to the edge faster by modernizing their edge operations. SUSE Edge 3.1 offers improved manageability and flexibility while introducing longer-term support.
Enterprises in retail, manufacturing, healthcare, and government verticals are extending their cloud computing capabilities to the far and tiny edge of their networks to reduce latency, process data locally, and gain real-time insights by utilizing AI/ML techniques. However, several issues prevent them from maximizing the potential of the edge, including the lack of a consistent platform between the cloud, enterprise premises and the edge; the difficulty of managing the lifecycle of all aspects of edge devices at scale; and the need for data center-like security at the edge.
SUSE Edge 3.1 addresses these challenges by providing a flexible and secure cloud platform that supports a variety of use cases, target hardware platforms and deployment scenarios. Edge 3.1 supports fully automated deployment and lifecycle management of tens of thousands of edge devices in a highly distributed topology.
“SUSE Edge 3.1 is a flexible, cloud native, edge computing platform designed to help enterprises manage the lifecycle of edge devices at scale and realize the benefits of distributed edge deployments,” said Keith Basil, general manager of SUSE’s edge business unit. “For example, by adopting SUSE Edge 3.1 across their edge footprint, a manufacturing enterprise would benefit from improved availability and reliability for sensors and cameras at their manufacturing plants.”
Benefits of Edge 3.1 include:
- Tailored validated designs: The SUSE Edge 3.1 solution provides a flexible, edge-optimized platform with validated designs tailored for industry use cases. SUSE Edge supports both x86-64 and Arm64 systems. The validated designs dramatically improve customer ramp-up time and ensure the consistent performance of edge deployments.
- Easily scaled and deployed: SUSE Edge 3.1 provides a management solution that equally scales to cover the full edge cloud stack, from OS to applications, and to handle operations in a fully automated manner. Edge 3.1 provides 24 months of long-term support.
- Best-in-class security and compliance: SUSE Edge builds on the accelerated and integrated risk management capabilities and certifications of SUSE’s underlying platforms. Compliance and security features within SUSE Edge extend the value, applying best practices in configuration, delivery and governance utilizing these capabilities.
- Built for the edge: More than a decade of working as a supplier to tier-1 network equipment providers means a mature high-performance edge runtime and a small footprint edge stack with components purposely built for edge computing.
- Better protection of customer investments: Using industry standard and vendor-neutral APIs for GitOps-based infrastructure and configuration management provides a higher return on investment.
SUSE Edge 3.1 is generally available as of October 11.
