Opsview Predicts Increased Demand for SUSE Linux in 2011

Opsview, the leader in network and application monitoring, has built native support for SUSE Linux into its latest software release. With this new capability, Opsview will be seen as a compelling choice for enterprises that use SUSE Linux in their data centers.

According to Opsview, the demand for SUSE Linux support in 2011 will be stronger than ever before since its future is assured by Attachmate's recent $2.2 billion acquisition of Novell.

An estimation suggests that Red Hat (News - Alert) and Novell control over 90 percent of paid Linux server shipments. Although Red Hat maintains a market share lead, the gap is narrowing fast. Novell's share of the paid Linux market actually increased by 5 percent, according to the most recently published data from IDC. With support for Red Hat, SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu (News - Alert) and Solaris, Opsview is the perfect monitoring suite for heterogeneous IT environments.

"SUSE Linux has significant share in the enterprise and its support was increasingly requested by our customers and community so we are delighted to respond to this demand," said James Peel, Opsview's product manager, in a recent press release.

 Opsview's latest free, open source edition -- Opsview Community 3.11 -- officially supports Suse Linux Enterprise 11. However, customers that need enterprise-grade features such as high availability, reporting, and service desk integration are best served by the Opsview Enterprise edition.

Opsview is a mature network, server, applications and cloud monitoring platform based on open source components that delivers control on an enterprise scale. The company uses an outstanding combination of ease-of-use with a flexible, standards-based architecture to provide feasible services to a wide range of enterprise and government customers including Ericsson, Electronic Arts, Allianz, PlusNet, Lidl, Harvard and Yale Universities and the Irish Revenue.

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Rahul Arora is a TMCnet contributor. He has worked as an editor and freelance writer for several reputed organizations in India. To read more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Tammy Wolf