How SUSE positions itself as the infrastructure layer for the AI era
From The New Stack Podcast by The New Stack
April 30, 2026 · 27 min · Episode 1616
About this episode
Pete Smails discusses SUSE's evolution into an AI-native infrastructure platform at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026.
In this episode of The New Stack Makers, Pete Smails outlines how SUSE is evolving from its Linux roots into an AI-native infrastructure platform. Speaking at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026, Smails explains the company’s strategy to unify AI, containers and virtual machines on a single open, enterprise-ready foundation. Central to this is SUSE Rancher Prime, which enables consistent orchestration across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, alongside SUSE Virtualization for modernizing legacy systems.
People in this episode
Guest: Pete Smails
Topics covered
- AI infrastructure
- SUSE
- KubeCon
- cloud-native
- virtualization
- containers
- hybrid cloud
Keywords
- SUSE
- AI
- infrastructure
- containers
- virtual machines
- cloud
- orchestration
- hybrid environments
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: SUSE
Products: SUSE Rancher Prime, SUSE Virtualization
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