GEC NEWS WIRESUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching to help customers running workloads on the SAP HANA platform, SAP NetWeaver technology platform and other SAP applications reduce the business disruption caused by planned downtime, while maintaining a highly secure IT environment. Live Patching allows enterprise Linux customers to perform system patching without rebooting, which increases service availability and saves on the cost of downtime.
Michael Miller, President of Strategy, Alliances and Marketing for SUSE said, “While advances like the SAP HANA platform have accelerated database processing, the IT industry has resigned itself to the antiquated idea of planned downtime. We believe business shouldn’t have to grind to a halt just because a server needs updating.”
SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching ensures critical SAP business applications remain available by providing a stream of packages to update a running kernel without interruption. An enterprise running SAP HANA can patch its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications without shutting SAP HANA down and rebooting the server, which could otherwise take hours due to the large amount of data involved.
Brian Connors, VP, Next Generation IT & Business Development, Data Center Group, Lenovo, said, “We strive to be our data center clients’ most trusted partner, and offering solutions based on open standards in collaboration with SUSE, as well as other leaders, is critical to this effort. Lenovo, SAP and SUSE continue delivering valuable enhancements.”
