'Suse Is A Necessity For Enterprise Devops Journey'

Rajarshi Bhattacharyya, Country Head at SUSE elaborates on the growing impact of open source on the digital transformation of enterprises.

- Jyoti Bhagat

How has Suse grown in India and where is the growth happening now?

Suse has come a long way in the Linux market. We are constantly involved with the open source community and have many ‘firsts’ to our credit. We were the first enterprise Open Stack Cloud distribution, the first Linux on the mainframe, and also the first Linux to make KVM and Xen available. Besides, we are the primary sponsor of the community-supported openSUSE Project, which develops the openSUSE Linux distribution.

In India, we are growing by double digits, and with open source being at the heart of the Indian government’s IT Policy, we are expanding at a significant rate. Suse powers the ‘Make in India’ initiative established by the government, by enabling cloud services and value-added service providers with cutting edge, enterprise-class open source technologies. Moreover, adoption of open solutions from Suse allows these organisations to build products and solutions that are comparable to their foreign counterparts.

What are the major challenges for Suse to operate profitably in the Indian market? How do you overcome those challenges?

Today, the major challenge that an open source organization faces in India is the unavailability of skilled resources. Suse has been making huge efforts to popularize the adoption of open source right from the elementary school to a higher level of educations. There are a lot of universities, school boards and technical education centres nowadays that are adopting open source education as a part of their ICT curriculum.