Network Appliance partnership recognises Linux growth

Network storage provider Network Appliance has signed a global partnership agreement with open source solution provider SuSE Linux, in recognition of the growth of Linux in the enterprise.

The news comes little more than a week after Hewlett-Packard expanded its global alliance with SuSE Linux by agreeing to resell and support SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 on industry-standard HP ProLiant servers and HP's Itanium-based servers.

NetApp already provide customers running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 with its unified storage solutions. This partnership will enable SuSE Linux to offer large-scale deployments of computing farms enabled by Network Appliance unified storage solutions.

"Using NetApp storage as a strategic component in combination with SAP and SuSE Linux provides us with unmatched levels of performance, flexibility, and availability," said Frank Schäfer, managing director at IWKA Informations Systeme, the IT subsidiary of IWKA Group. "The solution not only reduces total cost of ownership, but also simplifies data management in a demanding enterprise environment."

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