SUSE Cloud 2.0 to deploy and manage private clouds

Hosting & Cloud Transformation Summit, LAS VEGAS, USA: SUSE announced the general availability of SUSE Cloud 2.0, the next version of the original enterprise-ready OpenStack distribution for building Infrastructure-as-a-Service private clouds.

Based on OpenStack Grizzly, SUSE Cloud 2.0 provides the capabilities for setting up a mixed hypervisor private cloud environment that can be rapidly deployed and easily managed, helping enterprises increase business agility and reduce IT costs.

Designed to make it easy for enterprises to harness the power of OpenStack for private cloud deployments, SUSE Cloud 2.0 helps reduce administrator time and streamline the setup of private clouds based on OpenStack. SUSE Cloud 2.0 incorporates an improved installation framework, which facilitates concurrent implementation of KVM, Xen, Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESXi hypervisor environments, giving customers increased flexibility in building their clouds.

In addition, SUSE provides proven 24x7 enterprise support for SUSE Cloud 2.0, backed by the engineering excellence of SUSE and its 20-year history of delivering award-winning support to organizations worldwide.

"SUSE Cloud gives enterprise customers the ability to innovate faster and improve resource utilization, all while mitigating risk," said Michael Miller, VP of global alliances and marketing for SUSE. "Enterprises enjoy greater choice as they benefit from open source development reinforced with stability and security."