SUSE has recognised Australian enterprises and strategic partners who are leveraging open source principles to achieve digital self-reliance, modernisation, and regulatory compliance at its recent SUSE Summit Sydney event.
Datacom won the Customer Innovation Award, recognised in the Secure Edge category.
Three years ago, Datacom modernised one of New Zealand's critical systems to be containerised, secure, scalable and importantly deployable to the Edge.
Built on SUSE Rancher Suite utilising the simplicity of RKE2, Rancher Prime and Rancher Storage, the system requires near zero downtime, security and data controls at a national level, while being easily deployable across remote sites as more come online.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) won a Partner Innovation Award in the Growth Partner category.
By combining hybrid cloud infrastructure with SUSE’s open source expertise, HPE enables Australian enterprises to accelerate AI initiatives and scale workloads with confidence, SUSE claimed.
This collaboration simplifies operational complexity and ensures secure, sovereign data governance, helping customers bridge the gap between experimental AI and production-ready deployments while maintaining robust performance across multi-cloud environment, the compamny stated.
Centorrino Technologies won the other Partner Innovation Award, recognised in the Innovation Partner category.
After migrating its own infrastructure to SUSE, CT offers Australian enterprises a cost-effective virtualisation path.
By bypassing traditional hypervisors to move workloads directly to Kubernetes, CT helps customers avoid significant price increases and vendor lock-in, and modernise environments with minimal disruption while maintaining enterprise-grade resilience, SUSE said.




