Suse Enterprise Storage 3 Available

SUSE Enterprise Storage 3 is available to help customers adapt to changing business and data demands through accelerated IT innovation.

The latest intelligent software-defined storage management solution from SUSE, LLC is the first commercially supported solution based on the Jewel release of the Ceph open source project, ensuring customers are first to get supported and easy access to the rapidly advancing Ceph community innovation.

Enhancements to Enterprise Storage 3 include early access to following features of Ceph:

POSIX compliant Ceph filesystem (CephFS) adds native filesystem access, so customers now have unified block, object and file access in their firm’s Enterprise Storage cluster.
Multisite object replication provides asynchronous active/active multi-cluster environment to ensure replication at distance for improved DR, along with truly long-distance replication for block using asynchronous block (RDB) mirroring.
A new framework to simplify management by providing the foundation for an advanced GUI management tool (using openATTIC), as well as orchestration of the cluster using Salt.

A bout Enterprise Storage 3, including pricing and availability

* Market Guide for Open-Source Storage, Gartner, 23 November 2015.