UPDATED 00:01 EDT / NOVEMBER 06 2015

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SUSE is repurposing technology in a big way | #LinuxCon2015

Open source projects were the big discussion at the recently concluded LinuxCon event, and through these collaborations, partners are breathing new life into old technologies.

Jeff Frick, host of theCUBE from the SiliconANGLE Media team, spent some time with Michael Miller, vice president of alliances, marketing and product management at SUSE, considering the phrase: What’s old is new again when talking containers and mainframes.

The repurposed mainframe

SUSE is an enterprise Linux and open source solutions provider, who invests heavily in Open Stack distribution. SUES focuses on enterprise quality, scalability and reliability. The company’s latest venture is software-defined distributed storage.

Miller tells Frick that, “For us, open source is becoming how people innovate. It’s becoming the norm versus the other way and it really has come along way within the last decade.” He is impressed by the he pace and scale of innovation that can be achieved in an open source model is and feels that it is simply unmatched by anything else.

Currently SUSE is engaging with IBM in repurposing the mainframe for many modern day applications. The company brought Linux to the mainframe early on and continues to maintain an engineer- to-engineer collaboration with IBM through their joint KVM project which is growing the standard of virtualization.

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of LinuxCon 2015.

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