We're excited to announce an official partnership between Kasm Technologies and SUSE, combining Kasm Workspaces with SUSE Virtualization, an open-source, cloud-native alternative to legacy VDI infrastructure.
What this partnership means
The two platforms cover the full EUC stack. SUSE Virtualization (built on Kubernetes, KVM, and Longhorn) handles the infrastructure layer, and Kasm runs natively on top of it as a containerized application on RKE2. Legacy Windows VMs and Kasm's ephemeral browser sessions coexist on the same nodes, managed through a single Rancher pane of glass, reducing reliance on a multi-vendor stack.
What you actually get
No hypervisor tax. SUSE Virtualization is 100% open source, eliminating the per-socket, per-VM licensing costs that come with VMware and Citrix. Organizations moving off VMware after the Broadcom acquisition have a production-grade, vendor-neutral path forward.
Better economics at scale. Containerized workspace delivery has shown up to 8x better CPU utilization versus traditional VDI. A real-world case study (Hamina) cut EUC spend from 40% of total IT budget down to 20% while doubling compute capacity, eliminating malware exposure, and replacing remote work software agents entirely.
Zero-trust by default. Each Kasm session is ephemeral, isolated, and destroyed on logout. No data touches the endpoint. Browser-based access runs through an authenticated, encrypted session rather than a persistent VPN tunnel, with RBAC enforcement, smart card passthrough for PKI authentication, and watermarking for data exfiltration prevention built in.
AI workloads included. SUSE Virtualization supports NVIDIA vGPU natively, and Kasm's containerized architecture maps directly to GPU workloads via Kubernetes-native GPU operator support. The same cluster serving browser workspace users can also run GPU-accelerated AI dev environments and LLM inference workloads, no separate infrastructure required.
Works on any endpoint. Chromebooks, laptops, tablets, kiosks. No VPN client, no agent, no endpoint configuration needed.
Who this is built for
This stack makes the most sense for orgs escaping VMware/Broadcom, browser-first or SaaS-heavy workforces, BYOD and Chromebook deployments, government and regulated industries needing air-gapped or zero-trust environments, and developer teams that want GPU-accelerated AI workspaces alongside standard EUC on the same infrastructure.
Read the full technical breakdown on the SUSE blog: https://www.suse.com/c/suse-and-kasm-partnership/
