Name: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0:The Next Evolution of Enterprise Linux
Start: 2026-01-19T09:54:00Z
End: 2026-01-19T09:54:52.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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SUSE is a global leader in innovative, reliable and secure enterprise open source solutions, including SUSEⓇ Linux Suite, SUSEⓇ Rancher Suite, SUSEⓇ Edge Suite and SUSEⓇ AI Suite. More than 60% of the Fortune 500 rely on SUSE to power their mission-critical workloads, enabling them to innovate everywhere – from the data center to the cloud, to the edge and beyond. SUSE puts the “open” back in open source, collaborating with partners and communities to give customers the agility to tackle innovation challenges today and the freedom to evolve their strategy and solutions tomorrow. For more information, visit www.suse.com.

Are your organization's AI initiatives paralyzed by the "Three Cs": Compliance, Control, and Cost? Join Abhinav and Emiel for an insightful deep dive into how enterprises can escape the "black box" of public models and build a secure, scalable Private AI strategy.

In this interview, the speakers explore how to transform "Shadow AI" into a compliant asset  by deploying AI workloads exactly where your data lives—whether on-premises, in the cloud, or in air-gapped environments. You will discover how SUSE AI leverages decades of open-source heritage to offer an LLM-agnostic platform that ensures you are never locked into a single AI vendor.

Key topics include:
● Solving the Token Tax: How to shift from unpredictable variable costs to predictable
infrastructure economics.
● Security by Design: Implementing "Zero Trust" principles and full observability to
trace every decision and data flow.
● The Age of Agentic AI: An introduction to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and
the new SUSE AI Universal Proxy, designed to secure and manage the next
generation of AI agents.

SUSE AI: What It Is & How It Wins

As organisations embrace cloud-native architectures, the challenge is scaling intelligently, securely, and cost-effectively.

 

What are the proven approaches to accelerating cloud agility while maintaining resilience and governance at scale?

 

Join our next episode of DigitalTransformationTalk with Kevin Craine, who hosts a panel discussion where we’ll explore:

Preparing for AI-driven orchestration and intelligent automation
Operating across multi-cloud environments for resilience, vendor diversification or regional compliance
Overcoming security, cost management and complexity issues with Kubernetes scaling
Don’t miss this episode, as we discuss how to scale cloud native  while fuelling agility, resilience and controlling costs.

Scaling cloud native - fuelling agility, resilience and cost control

Este webinar se centra en las últimas novedades de las soluciones SUSE para entornos SAP y la gestión de sus aplicaciones críticas.

Repasaremos las últimas noticias y evoluciones con el siguiente programa:
Ciclos de vida: Un repaso a las últimas evoluciones de SLES for SAP 15 y 16, y la actualidad en torno a HANA 2.0.
Automatización y Virtualización: Cómo los roles de Ansible facilitan la gestión de sus cargas de trabajo SAP. También abordaremos la validación de SAP HANA y SUSE KVM con Intel, así como el soporte para la migración en vivo.
Contenerización: Aplicaciones en contenedores con SAP HANA en SAP Edge Integration y soluciones SUSE Rancher para aplicaciones SAP.
Gestión de parches: Novedades sobre Multi-Linux Manager versión 5.1, la migración de SLES a SLES for SAP y el Live Patching para sus aplicaciones.
Novedades del soporte Multi-Linux, los avances de MCP y SUSE AI para el mundo SAP.

Novedades de SUSE para entornos SAP y aplicaciones críticas

As organizations modernize and expand their SAP environments, security and compliance become critical to business resilience. In this SUSE SAP Navigator session, Alan Clarke is joined by Solution Architect Brian Petch to discuss how SUSE helps enterprises secure their SAP landscapes from the ground up.

Security & Compliance for your SAP Infrastructure

Key discussion points:
What digital sovereignty means for your engineering teams and platforms
How vendor choice, cloud strategy, and infrastructure decisions impact digital sovereignty
Building a future proof tech stack that meets changing global regulatory demands

Turning Digital Sovereignty policy into practice

Únete a nosotros en esta sesión donde exploraremos cómo la nueva plataforma SLES y el estándar abierto MCP (Multi-Context Protocol) conectan de forma segura los datos de su infraestructura SAP con potentes Modelos de Lenguaje Grandes (LLMs).

Simplifica la gestión de tu infraestructura: La IA llega a SLES 16

As enterprises shift toward cloud-native architectures, IT teams face the challenge of managing both virtual machines (VMs) and containers without adding complexity or cost. Legacy virtualization platforms weren’t built for today’s dynamic, hybrid environments.

Join SUSE and Portworx by Pure Storage for this webinar to learn how to unify VM and container workloads on a single, Kubernetes-native platform.

Unifying VM and Container Workloads with SUSE and Portworx

Unlock the full potential of your cloud-native journey. Overcome the top challenges in cloud-native adoption, such as Security, Monitoring, and Kubernetes Complexity.

Join us  to explore how SUSE Observability provides actionable insights from fragmented data, and how SUSE Virtualization can help you modernize your infrastructure by bridging the gap between traditional and cloud-native environments. Learn to maximize ROI and build a foundation for innovation.

The Core Value Proposition_ A Unified Solution SUSE Virtualization and SUSE Observability

Join us for this technical, implementation-focused webinar where we cut through the legal ambiguity and show you exactly how to leverage SUSE’s portfolio to directly address key NIS2 security requirements, providing you with a clear, actionable roadmap for compliance.

NIS2 in Practice A Technical Guide to Achieving Compliance with SUSE

Modernize banking with compliance built in
In today’s fast-moving financial landscape, banks face a dual challenge: modernizing their core systems while ensuring strict compliance with regulatory and security requirements. Temenos, trusted by over 3,000 financial institutions worldwide, empowers banks with a cloud-native, API-first, microservices-based platform designed for agility and scalability.

Yet deploying containerized banking applications in regulated environments requires more than Kubernetes alone. That’s where SUSE Rancher delivers—centralized Kubernetes management, strong multi-cluster governance, built-in compliance controls, and simplified operations.

From Compliance to Control: Securely Running Temenos on SUSE Rancher

In today’s hybrid IT landscape, organizations need a virtualization solution that is flexible, resilient, and cost-effective. Together, SUSE, HPE, and Veeam deliver a modern approach to virtualization—open-source, cloud-native, and built for the future.

What You’ll Learn:

How SUSE’s cloud-native virtualization platform simplifies VM and container management
How HPE’s performance-optimized servers power efficient, scalable infrastructure
How Veeam’s advanced data protection ensures workload resilience and availability
Deployment best practices and strategies to optimize costs while maintaining high performance

Virtualization Without Limits: Driving Efficiency and Resilience Across Your Hybrid Infrastructure

Dans le monde du développement agile, les équipes ont besoin de pouvoir ajouter rapidement des applications à leurs stacks pour accélérer leurs cycles de développement. L'origine et la qualité des applications sont souvent incertaines, ce qui expose les entreprises à des risques : sécurité de la chaîne d'approvisionnement, gestion des certifications, maintenance, conformité et une gestion complexe des dépendances et des différents systèmes d'exploitation.

Durant ce webinar, nous présentons SUSE Application Collection, la solution SUSE conçue pour distribuer et gérer de manière sûre et fiable des applications conteneurisées open source de niveau entreprise.

Au programme :
Sécurité et conformité : Découvrez comment SUSE Application Collection réduit les risques et assure la conformité grâce à des logiciels mis à jour et certifiés selon les plus hauts standards de sécurité.
Efficacité opérationnelle : Apprenez à optimiser l'efficacité de vos équipes en leur fournissant une plateforme de logiciels digne de confiance, en libre-service, ce qui réduit les frictions entre le développement et les opérations.
Fonctionnalités clés : Obtenez un aperçu des garanties techniques de la solution, incluant la traçabilité de la provenance, l'analyse continue des vulnérabilités, l'attestation in-toto signée, et une sécurité de build au plus haut niveau du standard SLSA (Niveau 3).

Développement agile et sécurisé avec SUSE Application Collection

Join SUSE experts as we explore how Multi-Linux Support empowers organizations to break free from vendor lock-in, optimize their IT investments, and ensure long-term flexibility. Discover how SUSE enables seamless operations across mixed Linux environments, provides enterprise-grade support, and helps businesses avoid the risks of outdated, unsupported systems.

The Legacy Paradox: How Multi-Linux Support Liberates Your IT from Outdated Systems

SAP customers are increasingly moving their applications to the cloud to benefit from its scalability, flexibility, and cost savings. However, not every application can be run exclusively in the cloud.

The SAP Integration Suite offers the Edge Integration Cell, a hybrid integration runtime that connects your on-premises applications and data with the cloud. The key advantage is that your confidential data remains protected.

SUSE Rancher for SAP applications is a tailored solution for SAP applications on Kubernetes, making it an ideal choice for SAP's Edge Integration Cell.

Our experts will give you an insight into the Edge Integration Cell on SUSE Rancher for SAP applications. We will show you how to meet the demands of modern IT infrastructures with this SAP application and a robust, enterprise-grade Kubernetes solution.

SAP's Edge Integration Cell on SUSE Rancher

In our webinar, we’ll show you how SUSE AI, our new advanced AI solution, helps your company implement AI innovations securely and efficiently.

Data security is a key concern for companies looking to harness the potential of AI. That’s why we developed SUSE AI – a secure, scalable platform designed for AI workloads. With SUSE AI, you can trust that your private data is protected. This makes it easy to adopt and scale AI technologies while meeting the highest security standards.

Technology in Focus: SUSE AI

Navigating AI Regulations and Digital Sovereignty
As AI advances at lightning speed, so do the legal and ethical responsibilities for every organization using it. With the EU AI Act now in effect and other Digital Sovereignty rules, enterprises must comply with complex regulations—whether they build, buy, or simply deploy AI systems.

AI & Partners helps organizations stay ahead by automatically detecting algorithms, LLMs, and models, creating a complete AI inventory for compliance with the AI Act.

Combined with SUSE’s latest Digital Sovereignty Offering and the secure, enterprise-scale capabilities of SUSE AI, we provide the trusted foundation enterprises need to navigate these evolving regulations. The journey isn’t simple—but with the right partners, it’s one we can take together.

Stay Compliant. Stay Competitive. Master AI in the Age of Regulation

Discover how SUSE Observability helps you ensure optimal performance, increased security and more efficient operations.

Achieve total visibility and security to protect your Kubernetes deployments

As IT environments become more complex and threats more sophisticated, your foundational operating system needs to evolve. We are thrilled to invite you to an exclusive webinar detailing the groundbreaking advancements in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 (SLES 16.0), which was made generally available on November 4, 2025.

This major release sets a new standard for enterprise Linux, focusing on enhanced automation, robust security, and a modernized, future-proof architecture built to power everything from traditional datacenters to the AI-ready edge.

Join us for a technical deep dive into how SLES 16.0 simplifies management, hardens your security posture, and ensures a predictable 16-year path for your most critical workloads.

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