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SUSECON China 2024 Opens in Shanghai, underscoring SUSE’s Commitment to Cloud-Edge Integration and Boundless AI

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Cutting-edge technologies, led by artificial intelligence, are reshaping the future. Companies face critical IT choices in the journey to digital transformation as they consider their digital options for future innovation.

SHANGHAI, Sept. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — SUSE, a global leader in open-source enterprise solutions, today hosted SUSECON China 2024. The event, focused on the theme of “Cloud-Edge Integration and Boundless AI,” brings together industry experts and technology leaders to explore cloud-native solutions, edge computing, and generative AI best practices to help businesses gain a competitive edge. Held in Shanghai, SUSECON China 2024 highlighted the latest technology trends and best practices, demonstrating how open-source platforms can be used to build secure, enterprise-level AI architectures, and how cloud-edge integration is driving digital transformation across industries.

SUSE Continues Empowering China with Open Source

A global leader in open-source enterprise solutions, headquartered in Germany, SUSE has been committed to the China market for 20 years, continually delivering innovative and secure open-source solutions that empower Chinese companies to lead and thrive in a rapidly changing marketplace.

In his opening remarks, SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen emphasized how recent IT outages have underscored the increased reliance on technology and the critical need for freedom of choice, saying “We are committed to unlocking the limitless potential of open source and giving you the freedom to choose your own technology solutions.”

Alan Chan, President of SUSE Greater China, delivered a keynote speech, “Choice Happens,” reiterating SUSE’s commitment to choice and helping companies successfully navigate the digital landscape. In today’s unpredictable market, he said, businesses need flexible, independent solutions. SUSE’s open source innovations empower enterprises with more choices, without the need to be locked into a single vendor. As an example, Chan highlighted SUSE Liberty Linux, introduced after the discontinuation of CentOS services. This solution allows users to stay on CentOS and other Linux distributions without migrating, ensuring enterprise applications remain secure and stable, with enterprise-level support to ensure business continuity.

SUSE has consistently been at the forefront of driving enterprise-grade digital transformation through innovative open source technology. To support companies in building private AI systems, SUSE launched SUSE AI – a secure, modular, vendor and LLM-agnostic GenAI platform. This platform is built on SUSE’s industry-leading products: SUSE Linux, Rancher Prime, and NeuVector Prime. Companies can run their AI systems on premises or in the cloud, with complete autonomy to select the most suitable LLM, a cost-effective approach that ensures their data remains private and meets compliance standards.

SUSE has also significantly enhanced the observability of its cloud-native management platform, Rancher Prime, with the acquisition of StackState, renowned for its cloud-native observability. StackState provides full-stack, end-to-end monitoring capabilities; automatically generates dependency maps between applications, microservices, and infrastructure resources; and offers troubleshooting guides, dynamic dashboards, and time-travel features. These capabilities help businesses monitor and manage large-scale cloud-native applications in real-time, improving efficiency and stability.

SUSE’s comprehensive solutions – ranging from infrastructure to cloud-native and edge computing – help local enterprises tackle complex digital transformation challenges. For example, a major international shipping and logistics company, headquartered in Hong Kong, recently experienced rapid growth, expanding from a few dozen Kubernetes cluster nodes to over 500. This required the company to build their containerisation management ability to manage complex hybrid cloud environments, dual-active architecture, and quick response times for application launches, all while safeguarding against cyberattacks. SUSE provided a cloud-native architecture blueprint, along with consulting and solutions like Rancher Prime and NeuVector, helping the company build a secure, efficient, and scalable cloud-native platform in just over two years.

Harnessing Cloud-Edge Integration and AI

Businesses undergoing digital transformation face challenges integrating modern applications, managing distributed architectures, handling evolving security threats, and adopting generative AI. SUSE’s four core technologies – cloud native, edge computing, enterprise-level Linux, and SUSE AI – are helping effectively address these issues, explained Vishal Ghariwala, SUSE’s APAC CTO.

SUSE’s APAC team shared further product highlights at the event. SUSE’s Rancher Prime cloud-native platform unifies the management of virtual machines and containers, speeding up the modernization of critical applications and optimizing delivery across core, cloud, and edge environments. It also rapidly integrates generative AI capabilities, such as AI assistants, into its offerings. For edge computing, SUSE Edge simplifies managing and scaling distributed architectures, ensuring operational consistency and robust security to keep edge applications running efficiently. SUSE Liberty Linux provides seamless migration patches and continuous security updates, addressing rising security threats and maintaining system stability. Finally, SUSE AI offers a modular, private platform that lets businesses choose their own generative AI models, ensuring data privacy and compliance while driving business innovation and growth.

SUSE Embraces a New Era of Cloud-Native and Edge Computing

As the Internet of Things (IoT) and digital transformation accelerate, a new era of cloud-native and edge computing has arrived. Edge deployments, driven by the demand for cluster management, have become increasingly important. In her speech, Katerina Arzhayev, Director of Edge Solutions at SUSE, noted the three core advantages of SUSE Edge: scalability and flexibility, automation and efficiency, and security and compliance. These capabilities help businesses respond flexibly to complex edge computing environments, streamline operations, and ensure data security.

For key industries like retail and manufacturing, SUSE provides standardized containerization to meet the advanced security requirements of distributed edge systems, along with cloud-edge collaboration across clouds, core data centers, and the edge. SUSE also provides a full suite of solutions and services, including consulting, design, deployment, commercialization, and ongoing support, helping enterprises overcome edge computing challenges and accelerate digital transformation.

Co-Creating the Future: SUSE Partners to Drive Industry Innovation

At SUSECON China 2024, SUSE teamed up with leading industry partners to present innovative solutions that drive digital transformation and intelligent upgrades across industries. In cloud-native, edge computing, and AI, SUSE showcased successful collaborations with companies such as Edgenesis, Ali Cloud, and Advantech. These partnerships span a wide range of applications: from intelligent manufacturing, to renewable energy, to cross-domain cloud-native and AI applications. Together, SUSE and Edgenesis launched an unified AIoT platform, while Ali Cloud and SUSE co-developed a cloud-edge AI solution to help enterprise users maximize the potential of generative AI. Advantech leveraged its industrial automation expertise to work with SUSE on intelligent factories and new energy solutions built on the K3s platform.

As generative AI, cloud-native, and edge computing technologies converge, businesses are presented with unprecedented opportunities for digital transformation. SUSE and its partners are not only providing strong technical support, but also building blueprints to fuel global digital innovation. Ali Cloud, SinyNet, and oBoson Labs were each named “SUSE 2024 Outstanding Partner of the Year” for their exceptional contributions to business and cloud-native innovation.

Finally, Chan remarked that 2024 marks SUSE’s 20th anniversary in China – an important milestone reflecting SUSE’s long-term commitment to the Chinese market and a testament to its rapid growth as the nation enters an era of AI-assisted, accelerated transformation. In this time of global technology transformation, SUSE is at the forefront, leading enterprises into a digital future.

About SUSE

SUSE is a global leader in innovative, reliable, and secure open-source enterprise solutions, including SUSE Linux Enterprise, Rancher Prime, and NeuVector. Trusted by more than 60% of Fortune 500 companies, SUSE powers mission-critical workloads, enabling innovation everywhere – from the data center to the cloud, to the edge and beyond. SUSE puts the “open” back in open source, collaborating with partners and communities to give customers the agility to solve today’s challenges and the freedom to evolve their strategies and solutions tomorrow. For more information, visit www.suse.com.

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Trimble for Government Achieves ‘Initial Implementation’ Status for FedRAMP Class C (Moderate) Certification

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Milestone accelerates secure cloud adoption for federal, state and local entities managing infrastructure, spatial data and capital assets 

WESTMINSTER, Colo., Oct. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Trimble today announced that Trimble for Government is listed as ‘Initial Implementation’ status for Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP®) Class C (Moderate) certification and is now listed on the FedRAMP Marketplace. In conjunction with seeking FedRAMP certification, Trimble is also pursuing GovRAMP authorization to support state, local and education (SLED) customers with reciprocal cybersecurity compliance standards.

This dual milestone marks a critical step forward in delivering a software as a service (SaaS) cloud environment built within a secure Government Community Cloud. Designed specifically for U.S. Federal Government departments, state and local agencies, and defense and civilian contractors, Trimble for Government provides a unified ecosystem for managing infrastructure, spatial data, capital projects, permitting and facility assets across their entire lifecycle.

Achieving FedRAMP Class C (Moderate) and GovRAMP alignment will enable public sector entities and Department of Defense (DoD) contractors to comply with stringent security mandates — including Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) alignment — while modernizing digital engineering and asset management.

“Federal, state and local agencies face the dual challenge of modernizing critical infrastructure while maintaining uncompromising cybersecurity standards,” said Mark Schwartz, group president, AECO at Trimble. “Achieving ‘Initial Assessment’ status reflects our commitment to delivering mission-critical spatial, capital project and asset management capabilities inside a secure, audit-ready cloud boundary across all levels of government.”

Integrated cloud solutions built for government operations

The in-scope environment brings together Trimble’s proven field execution, asset, project and permitting software into four modular packages designed to support specific public sector outcomes:

Trimble® Field Collaboration: Delivers field data services using foundational spatial database infrastructure and GIS integration to support high-security field operations, map assets, and enable seamless field-to-cloud workflows across Trimble’s core Field Systems portfolio.Trimble Project Management powered by Trimble ProjectSight® software: Connects design-to-build workflows in the field, providing precision data layout, project tracking, collaboration and quality assurance across construction projects.Trimble Asset Management powered by Trimble Unity™ Maintain software: Serves as a centralized facilities data core for federal, state, and local government agencies, military installations, and public infrastructure — such as public buildings, utilities, and transportation networks — to optimize maintenance and long-term capital planning.Trimble Permit Management powered by Trimble Unity Permit software: Streamlines end-to-end management of permitting, licensing, land use and infrastructure rights-of-way in a fully compliant cloud environment.

The unifying in-scope element across all four packages is the Trimble Connect® platform, providing collaboration and a common data environment (CDE) across the Trimble for Government platform.

With assessment processes underway, Trimble continues to advance toward full FedRAMP and GovRAMP authorizations to ensure public sector customers can innovate with confidence.

About Trimble
Trimble is a global technology company that connects the physical and digital worlds, transforming the ways work gets done. With relentless innovation in precise positioning, modeling and data analytics, Trimble enables essential industries including construction, geospatial and transportation. Whether it’s helping customers build and maintain infrastructure, design and construct buildings, optimize global supply chains or map the world, Trimble is at the forefront, driving productivity and progress. For more information about Trimble, visit: www.trimble.com.

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Trimble for Government Achieves ‘Initial Implementation’ Status for FedRAMP Class C (Moderate) Certification

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Milestone accelerates secure cloud adoption for federal, state and local entities managing infrastructure, spatial data and capital assets 

WESTMINSTER, Colo., Oct. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Trimble today announced that Trimble for Government is listed as ‘Initial Implementation’ status for Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP®) Class C (Moderate) certification and is now listed on the FedRAMP Marketplace. In conjunction with seeking FedRAMP certification, Trimble is also pursuing GovRAMP authorization to support state, local and education (SLED) customers with reciprocal cybersecurity compliance standards.

This dual milestone marks a critical step forward in delivering a software as a service (SaaS) cloud environment built within a secure Government Community Cloud. Designed specifically for U.S. Federal Government departments, state and local agencies, and defense and civilian contractors, Trimble for Government provides a unified ecosystem for managing infrastructure, spatial data, capital projects, permitting and facility assets across their entire lifecycle.

Achieving FedRAMP Class C (Moderate) and GovRAMP alignment will enable public sector entities and Department of Defense (DoD) contractors to comply with stringent security mandates — including Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) alignment — while modernizing digital engineering and asset management.

“Federal, state and local agencies face the dual challenge of modernizing critical infrastructure while maintaining uncompromising cybersecurity standards,” said Mark Schwartz, group president, AECO at Trimble. “Achieving ‘Initial Assessment’ status reflects our commitment to delivering mission-critical spatial, capital project and asset management capabilities inside a secure, audit-ready cloud boundary across all levels of government.”

Integrated cloud solutions built for government operations

The in-scope environment brings together Trimble’s proven field execution, asset, project and permitting software into four modular packages designed to support specific public sector outcomes:

Trimble® Field Collaboration: Delivers field data services using foundational spatial database infrastructure and GIS integration to support high-security field operations, map assets, and enable seamless field-to-cloud workflows across Trimble’s core Field Systems portfolio.Trimble Project Management powered by Trimble ProjectSight® software: Connects design-to-build workflows in the field, providing precision data layout, project tracking, collaboration and quality assurance across construction projects.Trimble Asset Management powered by Trimble Unity™ Maintain software: Serves as a centralized facilities data core for federal, state, and local government agencies, military installations, and public infrastructure — such as public buildings, utilities, and transportation networks — to optimize maintenance and long-term capital planning.Trimble Permit Management powered by Trimble Unity Permit software: Streamlines end-to-end management of permitting, licensing, land use and infrastructure rights-of-way in a fully compliant cloud environment.

The unifying in-scope element across all four packages is the Trimble Connect® platform, providing collaboration and a common data environment (CDE) across the Trimble for Government platform.

With assessment processes underway, Trimble continues to advance toward full FedRAMP and GovRAMP authorizations to ensure public sector customers can innovate with confidence.

About Trimble
Trimble is a global technology company that connects the physical and digital worlds, transforming the ways work gets done. With relentless innovation in precise positioning, modeling and data analytics, Trimble enables essential industries including construction, geospatial and transportation. Whether it’s helping customers build and maintain infrastructure, design and construct buildings, optimize global supply chains or map the world, Trimble is at the forefront, driving productivity and progress. For more information about Trimble, visit: www.trimble.com.

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Delta Development Team and The Good Drone Company Awarded U.S. Army Contract for Aerial Blood Delivery

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TUCSON, Ariz., Oct. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Delta Development Team (DDT), a leader in prehospital blood storage and cold chain technology, and The Good Drone Company (GDC) have been awarded a U.S. Army contract to develop a drone-based blood delivery capability for the Army Blood Link (ABL) program.

The program is part of the broader Armed Services Blood Program (ASBP), which supplies blood products to U.S. military forces worldwide. Army Blood Link is designed to support battlefield medical logistics through rapid, temperature-controlled delivery of lifesaving blood products to the field, providing an additional resupply option when traditional ground transportation is unavailable, delayed, or unsafe. Under the contract, The Good Drone Company will provide two U.S.-built prototypes of its hybrid vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) cargo drone, each designed to transport up to six units of blood, while DDT will provide the temperature-controlled storage capability through its Delta ICE 2L Smart Blood Cooler.

The companies are combining commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies to create a U.S.-sourced aerial blood delivery system capable of transporting blood directly to the point of need.

To meet ABL program requirements, DDT will supply six Delta ICE 2L Smart Blood Coolers, each designed to maintain two units of blood within the required temperature range for three hours of aerial delivery in high-humidity environments with ambient temperatures ranging from 15°F to 120°F. Built-in temperature monitoring and data recording, along with Bluetooth and cellular connectivity, support cold-chain oversight and blood accountability. The program extends DDT’s blood storage and monitoring capabilities into aerial delivery.

“Getting blood to the point of need is only part of the challenge. It must also remain within the required temperature range throughout the journey,” said Montgomery Leija, CEO of Delta Development Team. “This program brings DDT’s experience in blood storage and cold chain management into a new operational environment, taking the blood supply chain from the ground to the air.”

The prototype system is designed to deliver blood within 10 meters of a designated target during both day and night operations. It will feature a communications range of up to 30 miles and semi-autonomous waypoint navigation. It is intended for single-person operation with minimal training and is built on GDC’s existing commercial cargo drone technology to accelerate development and fielding while meeting U.S.-sourcing requirements.

“We have seen strong interest in middle-mile drones in emerging markets for some time, from both public and private sector customers spanning healthcare to third-party logistics,” said Jake Vander Ploeg, CEO of The Good Drone Company. “This program is a great example of how the military is adopting commercial technology like our cargo drones to quickly test new ideas in the field without starting a full aircraft development program.”

The collaboration combines GDC’s expertise in commercial drone platforms and aerial delivery with DDT’s temperature-controlled blood storage and transport capabilities to support:

Rapid resupply: Delivering blood when conventional ground transportation is unavailable or unsafe.Cold chain protection: Maintaining required blood temperatures during aerial transport.U.S.-sourced capability: Supporting domestic defense supply chain objectives.Accelerated development: Combining GDC’s existing commercial cargo drone technology with DDT’s established blood storage solutions.

The ABL effort addresses the challenge of delivering critical medical supplies in contested and austere environments. When terrain, damaged infrastructure, or tactical conditions prevent conventional resupply, aerial delivery combined with temperature-controlled storage can expand options for getting lifesaving blood products to service members when and where they are needed.

About Delta Development Team

Delta Development Team (DDT) is a U.S.-based medical technology company headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, specializing in blood storage, transport, monitoring, and logistics solutions for military and prehospital environments. DDT develops technology designed to keep blood available, traceable, and mission-ready from the blood bank to the point of injury. Its portfolio includes the APRU 6L, Delta ICE 2L, TBS 40L, and BloodCOMM® blood management platform.

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About The Good Drone Company

The Good Drone Company (GDC) is an aerospace company headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, that designs and builds autonomous hybrid VTOL cargo drones for middle-mile logistics. GDC’s aircraft take off and land vertically without a runway, carry up to 55 lb (25 kg) of payload, and fly more than 300 miles (500 km) at speeds up to 93 mph (150 km/h). GDC is deploying in Kenya to close the middle-mile transportation gap for public and private sector customers, working closely with its local partner ThatcherX and the Kenyan government to change how goods move around the country.

Media Contact: info@thegooddronecompany.com | www.thegooddronecompany.com

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