SUSE teams up with SaltStack to provide Enterprise IT Automation at Scale

SUSE and SaltStack are expanding their partnership to offer customers automated management of virtually all data center resources on a massive scale. SaltStack Enterprise and SUSE Manager 3 running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server deliver intelligent, event-driven orchestration of heterogeneous enterprise IT systems today. The collaboration is to further integrate and extend these capabilities through upstream Salt development to optimize cloud, container and storage resources, thus enabling digital business.

"SUSE and SaltStack are expanding their business and technical collaboration to develop and ultimately deliver advanced management and orchestration capabilities for the software-defined enterprise data center that extend from systems management to cloud, containers and storage. Enterprise IT is more complex and unruly than ever, and customers need more control and flexibility as their data centers grow and become more business critical," said Michael Miller, President of Strategy, Alliances and Marketing, SUSE.

SaltStack Enterprise and SUSE Manager 3 are built on Salt open-source systems management software and validated on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Building on the Salt integration SUSE delivered in SUSE Manager 3, SUSE and SaltStack will collaborate to develop and deliver new levels of automation and control for the software-defined data center.

Marc Chenn, Co-Founder & CEO, SaltStack, said, "Together, SUSE and SaltStack are accelerating business agility through the efficient orchestration and automation of enterprise DevOps and data center operations at scale. SUSE expertise in enterprise-grade computing is legendary, and SaltStack excels at bringing order and security to the chaos and complexity often found in the modern data center. SUSE and SaltStack are delivering efficient and flexible enterprise IT operations and agile DevOps for next-generation business."

The two companies will increase development collaboration and contributions to the Salt open-source project for intelligent systems management, extending capabilities to orchestrate SUSE and third-party cloud, container and storage resources. SaltStack Enterprise and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server together are the preferred IT automation software stack recommended and supported by SUSE and SaltStack.

SUSE Manager is the top open-source infrastructure management solution, allowing IT to reduce complexity and regain control of IT assets, ensure compliance with internal security policies and external regulations, and optimize operations while reducing costs. SaltStack Enterprise enhances the capabilities of SUSE Manager 3 by automating the management of virtually all data center resources, including cross-platform support for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and UNIX. SaltStack Enterprise also supports large multi-master environments at massive scale, in addition to providing enterprise-grade features such as user access control, job and system audits, data persistence and dashboards, and event filtering.