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Buoyant and SUSE expand partnership to provide secure edge computing deployments

Buoyant, creator of the open source, Rust-based Linkerd service mesh, has expanded its partnership with SUSE, the company behind SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), Rancher and NeuVector and a specialist in enterprise open source solutions, to expand interoperability and security in edge environments.

Together with SUSE Edge, Buoyant will implement mesh expansion capabilities to the service mesh that will be available in early 2024.

As an increasingly important part of the...

14 November 2023 | Applications

StarlingX 6.0: Open-source platform sees Linux update, security upgrades

StarlingX, an open-source edge computing platform, has released version 6.0, featuring a Linux kernel upgrade along with security and deployment enhancements.

Offering a complete software stack for edge and IoT devices, the StarlingX project combines Ceph, OpenStack, Kubernetes, and other open-source packages with optimisation for low latency applications.

The platform’s main market to date has been telecom carriers such as T-Systems, Verizon, and Vodafone, but any...

8 February 2022 | Cloud

SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 set to bolster edge compute capabilities

SUSE, the developer behind the SUSE Linux operating system (OS), has released a new edge-focused lightweight and secure OS.

SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) Micro 5.1 is designed with containerised and virtualised workloads in mind, facilitating modernisation through IBM Z and LinuxONE support.

SLE Micro can be used as a single-node container host, a Kubernetes cluster node, or in the public cloud. Since it is built to scale it can also be deployed at the edge or support edge...

29 October 2021 | Applications

Red Hat launches new edge capabilities alongside improved architecture

Open-source software giant Red Hat has launched several new edge capabilities for enterprises alongside an improved architecture.

IDC forecasts that global spending on edge computing will reach around $250.6 billion in 2024. The company’s analysts say that spending on edge software will account for approximately 21 percent of that spend.

Dave McCarthy, Research Director of Edge Strategies at IDC, says:

"Edge products and services are powering the next wave of...