By @SiliconANGLE
Publication Date: 2026-04-22 17:16:00
Enterprises are locked in a long-term standoff with legacy infrastructure, with growing demand for virtualization modernization that doesn’t require a full rebuild.
SUSE S.A. has positioned itself to help customers bridge that gap, but the challenge is less technical than psychological, according to Imran Khan (pictured), chief customer officer of SUSE. Organizations with imposing, decades-old environments understand the need to modernize, yet still struggle with the complexity, skill gaps and the risk of shifting critical workloads to a new foundation. To that end, SUSE has built out assessment services, migration tooling and a support layer designed to lower the barrier to entry.
“When you see our customer base — how do they get from one side of the chasm to the other?” Khan said. “We’re trying to make sure that we give them that level of comfort to say, look, we’ve got all the technology to help you get there and also wrapping around a lot of our white-glove services to ensure they can take that leap of faith.”
Khan spoke with theCUBE’s Paul Nashawaty at SUSECON 2026, for an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed closing the gap between legacy virtualization environments, virtualization modernization and modern Kubernetes-based infrastructure without vendor lock-in. (* Disclosure below.)
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