SUSE has bought Losant, a Cincinatti-based Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platform provider for an undisclosed sum – saying the deal “extends SUSE’s Edge portfolio beyond infrastructure into operational execution.”

SUSE is owned by private equity firm EQT. It ready ships an operating system (OS) and open source management engine for edge applications, that lets application VMs and container-based applications run the same platform.

It recently also shipped its Edge Image Builder (EIB) to allow users to create a single, “self-bootstraping” image containing the OS, Kubernetes, applications and network settings that can deploy to multiple edge nodes.

By buying Losant, it onboards a platform capable of reaching and managing what it described as the “tiny edge” of industrial sensors. As SUSE’s GM of Edge, Keith Basil put it in a canned statement, the deal “transforms SUSE from an edge infrastructure provider to a full-stack Industrial IoT leader…”

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Losant, a “niche player” in 2025’s Magic Quadrant for global industrial IoT platforms, serves industrial OEMs, enterprise facility managers and telecommunications providers. It serves over 712,000 connected industrial assets and over 72,000 IoT gateways, Gartner said in that research paper.

The Magic Quadrant noted that “Losant does not offer an exclusive configuration management database (CMDB) functionality. [It] features device databases, metadata storage, configuration tracking and over-the-air (OTA) updates that overlap with some CMDB capabilities [but] is not widely utilized or perceived as a comprehensive CMDB solution,” Gartner said.

SUSE and Losant’s combined portfolio will allow customers to “connect operational systems directly with enterprise workflows and analytics.

“For example, a manufacturer can collect real-time sensor data from production equipment, orchestrate it at the Edge, and automatically trigger maintenance workflows or AI-driven quality checks before defects or failures occur. This reduces the complexity traditionally associated with Industrial IoT adoption and accelerates the path from data collection to actionable insight,” SUSE claimed in a February 19 press release.

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