SUSE and New Horizons Partner in Middle East

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - November 01, 2015 - SUSE recently announced a new training partnership with New Horizons Computer Learning Centers in Dubai for the Middle East. New Horizons Dubai, a franchise of New Horizons Inc., the largest independent IT training company in the World and experts in Information Technology training are a provider of comprehensive training solutions for the Middle East-market and worldwide. The set of SUSE trainings and certifications offered by the New Horizons training center in Dubai will mainly focus on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, the reliable, scalable and secure platform for efficiently deploying and managing highly available enterprise-class IT services in physical, virtual or cloud infrastructure and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, the platform to run and increase uptime of mission-critical SAP solution-based workloads on Linux. Additional trainings will focus on the management of multi-vendor Linux environments with SUSE Manager, to improve usability, provisioning, power management and added features for IT compliance and security.

“Through the strategic partnership of SUSE and New Horizons Dubai, customers can now benefit from a range of additional Linux trainings facilities in the region to make their businesses run more efficiently and cost effectively”, says Paul Abi-Chahine, Regional Director, EEMEA at SUSE. “A special training focuses on customers with SAP environments, where SUSE offers high availability capabilities for deployments of the SAP HANA platform via SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, the recommended and supported operating system for use with SAP HANA.”

“We are looking forward to a strong training partnership with SUSE adding comprehensive Linux- and Open Source-software trainings to our offerings in Dubai”, says Mohammed Aslam, COO at New Horizons. “The IT market in Middle East is highly developed and the SUSE trainings add a huge benefit for those customers using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server or running SAP workloads on Linux.”