[ale] FW: SUSE Linux Days 2013 kicks off this May!

[Jay Lozier]

Hi,

I was there also. The part I was intrigued by was the virtualization/cloud  
technology.

On Wed, 15 May 2013 09:49:19 -0400, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu>  
wrote:

> I was there, too :)
> While the prices he put up on the slide may seem a bit high, compared  
> with the prices from VMware and others in the market, it is a bargain.   
> The one thing he glossed over that will bring the price up more is the  
> unlimited VM entitlement for SLES for each node.  I'm looking at a  
> retail price list now, and for one two socket node, the prices are as  
> follows:
> basic support:  $1420 for 3 years
> standard support:  $3240 for 3 years
> priority support:  $5300 for 3 years.
> If you have EDU pricing, you can probably cut all of that in half.
> Also, talk with your SUSE rep and see if they can get it in the door at  
> a lower price for you.
> Go and download/play with a copy of SUSE cloud.  Given that their  
> easy-to-use repackaging of OpenStack is still a complex beast, I'm not  
> sure I would want to tackle a compile-from-source setup in production.
> As a sanity check, just be sure that what you need can't be better  
> served by a traditional solution such as VMware VSPhere, Citrix  
> XenServer or KVM/Xen on Linux + shared storage.  We are a university of  
> over 30,000 students, and we still don't have a cloud deployment  
> (shhh...don't tell the SUSE guys, I've already heard the sales pitch!).  
> We are using VMware VSphere primarily.  Part of that is due to the fact  
> that we don't really want non-IT people haphazardly provisioning new  
> servers :)
> Allen B.
>
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
> ________________________________
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of Scott  
> Plante [splante at insightsys.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 8:22 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] FW: SUSE Linux Days 2013 kicks off this May!
>
> I went to the SUSE Linux Day today and it was very interesting. The  
> major focus was around their suite of cloud technologies and it all  
> looked very nice. Of course, it has a price tag to go with it! I don't  
> have any problem with companies making money on their hard work, but I  
> can say that without major discounts, it's well, well out of my price  
> range. They do deal and it was list the were quoting, so possibly it  
> could still happen. It's all built on open source technologies,  
> including OpenStack. Their very nice tool for creating VMs, install CDs,  
> PXE images, etc., has a free limited hosted version:  
> http://susestudio.com/ . I actually used that a while back (1-2yr?) to  
> create a "VM Appliance" version of one of our products, but no one  
> seemed to be interested then in loading a pre-installed VM. I think our  
> typical users had no idea whether any VM technology was being used in  
> their organization, or who to ask about it, but that's another subject.
>
> A lot was made about how hard OpenStack is to do on your own--has anyone  
> on the list done raw OpenStack? What was your experience like? We tend  
> toward making the free, open source versions of things work for us. Then  
> again, maybe we'd make more money as a company if I didn't spend so much  
> time playing admin and concentrated on my paid programming work ;-).
>
> Thanks, Allen (and Jim Kinney), for the heads up on this seminar.  
> Besides the interesting technical stuff, the lunch was very nice and I  
> got to chat with some very nice and interesting folks :-D
>
> Scott
>
> ________________________________
> From: "Allen Beddingfield" <allen at ua.edu>
> To: ale at ale.org
> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 3:57:50 PM
> Subject: [ale] FW: SUSE Linux Days 2013 kicks off this May!
>
> FYI, this is May 14th in Atlanta.  It is free.  If any of you are  
> interested in learning more about SUSE Linux Enterprise and the related  
> products, it would be a good event to attend.  I plan to be there.  They  
> usually serve a pretty good breakfast and lunch at these things, too :)
> Allen B.
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
>
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