How SUSE positions itself as the infrastructure layer for the AI era

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.