SUSE has introduced a voluntary separation programme for eligible employees as part of efforts to align its business structure with strategic priorities, The Register has confirmed. Multiple sources said the Linux vendor approached long-serving staff, particularly those with over ten years at the company. Lisa Sherwell, People, Strategy and Transformation Executive, contacted employees with the offer following an online company meeting. A SUSE representative stated participation is voluntary with no predefined targets, highlighting industry-leading staff retention rates of 6 per cent in core operational areas. The programme follows unionisation of SUSE's Czech employees earlier this year, who formed the SUSE Workers Union as part of the Czech ICT Union. There is no evidence linking the two developments. The changes coincide with modifications to SUSE's distribution, including removal of longstanding tools in openSUSE Leap 16.

Government seeks consultation on the future of AI in Australia. Monday, 21 September, 2026 The Australian Government has announced it is seeking feedback on the future of artificial intelligence (AI) training and large data centres in Australia. The government believes AI has the potential to transform its economy, create new opportunities for businesses and workers, strengthen research and innovation, and improve the way Australians live and work, and that the country is well placed to seize this opportunity, with a highly skilled workforce, world-class research capability and a strong track record of attracting investment in digital infrastructure. The Australian Government wants to build on these strengths and ensure Australia is an attractive destination for investment in the infrastructure needed to support the next generation of AI. The government has announced it is holding a public consultation to better understand how Australia can help build the digital infrastructure and technologies that will shape its future while managing their impacts responsibly. The consultation topics include: * energy use and renewable energy requirements * sustainable water use * community engagement and project locations * impacts on infrastructure and community * developing workforce skills and training * thresholds for applying requirements to different types of data centres. Feedback will help inform future decision making and advice to government. Whether you have technical expertise, industry experience, or an interest in how AI infrastructure may affect your community, the government is encouraging participation. This consultation is one of several ways the government is gathering feedback. Responses received through the submission form will be considered alongside targeted stakeholder engagement and ongoing work with Commonwealth, state and territory governments. Together, the feedback will help inform the development of Australia's AI Standards. The consultation period is already open and closes at 5 pm AEDT, Friday 9 October. The consultation paper can be found here, and submissions can be made here. More information on the Getting it right: Building AI infrastructure that works for Australia consultation is available here. Image credit: iStock.com/imaginima Managed services provider Centorrino Technologies has engaged SUSE to replace its VMware... The Australian Local Government Association says that local councils want a greater say in the... A new MOU establishes a framework for strategic cooperation on secure cloud infrastructure,...

SUSE adds real-time Linux support to SEAPATH. Wed 16 Sep 2026 · AP News SUSE has enabled its enterprise real-time Linux platform for LF Energy's SEAPATH architecture, giving electricity grid operators and equipment vendors a commercially supported operating system option for virtualised digital substations. The integration, developed with open-source engineering specialist Savoir-faire Linux, combines SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time with Kernel-based Virtual Machine, or KVM, virtualisation and cluster support. SUSE said the work makes it the first enterprise Linux vendor to provide validated real-time operating system support for the open-source SEAPATH architecture. SEAPATH is designed as a high-availability, real-time hypervisor for digital substations, where protection, automation and control functions increasingly run as software rather than on dedicated proprietary hardware. The LF Energy project is built around IEC 61850 digital substation requirements and is intended to support virtualised protection, automation and control applications on standardised infrastructure. Initial performance validation by Dutch grid operator Alliander found that SUSE's real-time kernel met latency requirements below 30 milliseconds for high-voltage grid protection, according to SUSE. The company said the result provided the technical basis for commercial support of SEAPATH deployments using its enterprise Linux platform. The commercial option is significant because real-time substation workloads must respond within tightly controlled timing windows even when several applications share computing resources. SEAPATH couples a fully pre-emptible Linux kernel with high-availability clustering and precise time synchronisation, including support for Precision Time Protocol. LF Energy says its continuous-integration environment runs hundreds of unit, real-time and latency tests to detect regressions. The platform can host virtualised intelligent electronic devices, allowing protection and control functions that were traditionally tied to specialised equipment to operate as software while communicating through IEC 61850 protocols across modern digital substation environments. The development is aimed at utilities seeking to modernise substation infrastructure while retaining deterministic performance, high availability and support arrangements expected in critical power systems. Enterprise subscriptions for SEAPATH environments will include technical support, security maintenance and long-term lifecycle management, SUSE said. Frank Feldmann, SUSE's chief AI and strategy officer, said grid modernisation required technologies combining openness, reliability and long-term support. He said adding SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time to SEAPATH would give transmission and distribution operators another supported route for building software-defined substations, while increasing technology choice and control over critical infrastructure. SEAPATH itself is hardware- and software-agnostic and uses mature open-source components, including KVM and the libvirt virtualisation interface. LF Energy says the platform is designed for real-time performance, time synchronisation, clustering, distributed storage and automated remote management. Its development process includes extensive continuous integration and latency testing for digital substation use cases. The project has attracted participation from utilities, equipment makers and software suppliers seeking alternatives to tightly coupled hardware platforms. France's transmission system operator RTE has already deployed SEAPATH in its R#SPACE digital protection, automation and control programme, while Alliander has identified the platform as part of its plans for software-defined substations. Eloi Bail, chair of the LF Energy SEAPATH Technical Steering Committee, said a sustainable multi-vendor ecosystem was central to the project. He said evaluating SUSE Linux Enterprise against SEAPATH's technical requirements added another implementation and support option for grid operators and for protection and automation vendors developing virtualised intelligent electronic devices. Savoir-faire Linux, a co-founder and long-standing contributor to SEAPATH, provided integration expertise covering the architecture's real-time, high-availability and industrial requirements. Christophe Villemer, executive vice-president at Savoir-faire Linux, said the collaboration was intended to turn the SEAPATH reference architecture into deployable industrial systems supported over enterprise lifecycles. The move comes as electricity networks face rising pressure from renewable generation, electrification and increasingly distributed energy resources, forcing operators to process more data and adapt control systems more quickly. Virtualisation can allow multiple protection and automation workloads to run on common computing infrastructure, reducing dependence on separate purpose-built devices while preserving isolation and resilience requirements. Follow Arabian Post. Select Arabian Post as your preferred source on Google and MSN News for trusted business news and Arab politics and updates. Notice an issue? Arabian Post strives to deliver the most accurate and reliable information to its readers. 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