SUSE offers CentOS 7 users protection and flexibility without
any need for migration
BERLIN, June 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- (SUSECON 2024) --
SUSE®, a global leader in innovative, open and secure
enterprise-grade solutions today announced a new SUSE Liberty Linux
offering to help protect CentOS systems from future
vulnerabilities. SUSE Liberty Linux Lite for CentOS 7 is a
frictionless solution that provides customers with updates and
security patches for their existing CentOS system, with no
migration whatsoever. This gives customers the security and
certainty of uninterrupted, SUSE enterprise Linux support, without
the hassle and disruption of switching OS on-premises or in the
cloud.
"Open source technologies are the cornerstone of innovation for
enterprises, fostering collaboration, agility, and
cost-effectiveness," said Rick
Spencer, GM of Business Critical Linux, SUSE. "Ensuring
CentOS 7 users have a secure, enterprise ready, future-proof Linux
solution is important to SUSE, and we are delighted to be in a
position to support CentOS 7 users as they face this uncertain and
risky situation."
As the CentOS 7 end of support deadline, June 30, 2024, approaches, there are still
huge amounts of CentOS servers and instances online, leaving
enterprises in challenging and potentially costly positions. In
recent years, CentOS, like other operating systems, has been
affected by security vulnerabilities. Without regular security
patches, organizations running their mission critical workloads on
CentOS 7 are left with major security exposures. SUSE has
consistently championed long-term, enterprise-grade support for
CentOS with the introduction of SUSE Liberty Linux and the founding
of OpenELA.
With SUSE Liberty Linux Lite for CentOS 7, organizations can
continue running their existing CentOS 7 operating system
environments with zero disruption, zero migrations and zero
upgrades. With SUSE, there is no time-consuming migration
path. All customers need to do to receive updates and patches
is simply change the pointer of CentOS to a SUSE Liberty Linux
repository. No other changes are required.
Since its inception, SUSE Liberty Linux has been a popular
choice for customers needing secure and flexible Linux management
without the need to migrate. SUSE Liberty Linux customers
include global enterprises across a variety of industries including
financial services, telecommunications and automotive. Eduardo Luis Piccoli, IT Infrastructure Analyst
at WEG, a global electro-electronic equipment company based in
Brazil, says, "SUSE Liberty Linux
gives us the ability to support several other Linux distros in only
one solution."
To make it easier for CentOS 7 customers to future-proof their
Linux estates, the new SUSE Liberty Linux Lite for CentOS 7 is
offering a simple and easy online access at the SUSE Shop and on.
The new SUSE Liberty Linux Lite for CentOS 7 offering starts at
USD 25 per server/instance per year,
with a minimum investment of USD
2500. This offer applies until October 31, 2024.
To learn more, visit SUSE Liberty Linux and read the blog.
About SUSE
SUSE is a global leader in innovative,
reliable and secure enterprise open source solutions, including
SUSE Linux Enterprise, Rancher and NeuVector. 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.
Media contact: rachel.romoff@suse.com
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