25.02.2025

On February 4, in Baku, Azerbaijan, we hosted an event dedicated to modern SUSE solutions and their application in corporate infrastructure. The seminar was organized by FOMINOV CONSULTING – leading local IT integrator and Fortis Distribution – international IT and Cybersecurity distributor. The event attracted the attention of leading industry specialists, IT experts and business representatives interested in implementing innovative enterprise open-source based technologies in their enterprises.

It should be noted that SUSE was recognized by the analytical agency Gartner as a leader in the report “Magic Quadrant” for container management. According to the forecast of Gartner, by 2027, more than 75% of all AI deployments will use container technology as the underlying computing environment, compared to less than 50% today, and by 2028, 80% of custom software running on the physical edge of enterprise infrastructure will be deployed in containers. Such forecasts highlight the important role of container management in digital transformation processes and enterprises, as well as the active use of AI tools in their work.

The key topics of the event covered such aspects as:

• Development of the SUSE ecosystem and its role in digital business transformation;
• Opportunities and benefits of using SUSE Linux Enterprise;
• Modern approaches to virtualization, cloud solutions and containerization;
• Practical experience in implementing and using SUSE products using the example of installing Kubernetes.

At the beginning of the event, Andrey Shchegol, Commercial Director of Fortis Distribution, announced that Fortis Distribution is the official authorized distributor of SUSE in the Azerbaijan market, and also spoke about the company’s full portfolio. The key speakers of the event were SUSE Regional Sales Director Alexander Sviridov and technical specialist responsible for sales and promotion of SUSE solutions Ivan Ekimov, Presales Engineer.

Representatives of FOMINOV CONSULTING – Technical Director Adil Mammadov and Lead Engineer Rovshan Agayev spoke about the importance of strategic partnership with SUSE, which will allow developing Linux solutions, both on-prem and in cloud technologies, ensuring high reliability, flexibility and scalability of the IT infrastructure of numerous customers in Azerbaijan. They also emphasized the advantage of SUSE in relation to other outdated and / or more expensive distributions of similar solutions. We would like to note that at the moment FOMİNOV CONSULTİNG is the only Emerald (Silver) partner of SUSE in Azerbaijan.

The official part of the event ended with a speech from Commercial Director of FOMINOV CONSULTING Natalya Osipova, who spoke about the local public organization Femmes Digitales – Supporting Woman in Tech, whose main activities are aimed at eliminating gender inequality in the ICT field, thereby seeking to popularize this area among girls and women in Azerbaijan. It should be noted that over the past 5 years, FOMINOV CONSULTING has been a regular sponsor of many Femmes Digitales projects, providing them with all kinds of support.

In addition, guests were given the opportunity to take part in a children’s exhibition of drawings and paintings, which was organized as part of this event.

Thus, FOMİNOV CONSULTİNG once again demonstrated that they are a progressive team with rich technological expertise, following modern trends, developing an inclusive business model, takes part in supporting various social projects and seeks to generate similar interest among others. More detailed information can be found by following the link: https://fcc.az/socialresponsibility/

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