Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen of SUSE, chief executive officer, joins Paul Nashawaty of TheCUBE Research at SUSECON 2026 to discuss resilience, choice and artificial intelligence across enterprise IT. van Leeuwen draws on extensive experience leading open source infrastructure across cloud, edge and enterprise Linux, and they outline SUSE's roadmap and strategy for portability, data sovereignty and edge expansion.
The conversation explores SUSE's five pathways to greater resiliency, Kubernetes-based portability, data sovereignty concerns, recent edge acquisitions and the company's approach to enabling AI adoption. Key takeaways include van Leeuwen's emphasis on delivering resilient flexible platforms that preserve legacy investments while enabling AI adoption, and they warn that proprietary AI recipes risk rapid obsolescence. Nashawaty and van Leeuwen note SUSE prioritizes portability through Kubernetes to reduce vendor lock-in, harmonize multi-cloud and on‑prem deployments, and extend infrastructure to industrial edge domains to protect data sovereignty and lower total cost of ownership. The discussion highlights SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and other open source solutions that support hybrid cloud strategies and industrial IoT deployments.
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Dirk-Peter "DP" van Leeuwen, SUSE
Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen of SUSE, chief executive officer, joins Paul Nashawaty of TheCUBE Research at SUSECON 2026 to discuss resilience, choice and artificial intelligence across enterprise IT. van Leeuwen draws on extensive experience leading open source infrastructure across cloud, edge and enterprise Linux, and they outline SUSE's roadmap and strategy for portability, data sovereignty and edge expansion.
The conversation explores SUSE's five pathways to greater resiliency, Kubernetes-based portability, data sovereignty concerns, recent edge acquisitions and the company's approach to enabling AI adoption. Key takeaways include van Leeuwen's emphasis on delivering resilient flexible platforms that preserve legacy investments while enabling AI adoption, and they warn that proprietary AI recipes risk rapid obsolescence. Nashawaty and van Leeuwen note SUSE prioritizes portability through Kubernetes to reduce vendor lock-in, harmonize multi-cloud and on‑prem deployments, and extend infrastructure to industrial edge domains to protect data sovereignty and lower total cost of ownership. The discussion highlights SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and other open source solutions that support hybrid cloud strategies and industrial IoT deployments.
In this interview from SUSECON 2026, Dirk-Peter "DP" van Leeuwen, chief executive officer of SUSE, joins theCUBE Research's Paul Nashawaty to discuss how open-source infrastructure is giving enterprises the resilience and flexibility to modernize legacy environments while navigating the rapid pace of AI adoption. Van Leeuwen frames the defining challenge confronting enterprise CIOs: the simultaneous pressure to adopt AI and manage years of accumulated technical debt — all without surrendering control over sensitive data. He explains why data sovereignty has b...Read more
