“The excellent management that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server provides, including the management structure itself, is one of the key factors behind Tsubame 2.5’s success.”

“In our legacy environment, a server failure could disable our production systems for up to 5 hours—reducing our ability to keep the tight delivery deadlines. Today, if 1 of our servers goes down, SUSE Linux automatically transfers the workload to a secondary system—meaning that we can restore affected production services …

"Together with SUSE Gold Partner FRITZ & MACZIOL, we selected SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications as it offered high performance for SAP software combined with extremely responsive and professional support from SUSE and SAP."

“What makes the iHANA offering unique is our ability to migrate clients from SAP R/3 to our managed services platform, and at a later date convert the environment to the SAP HANA platform over a Gigabit Ethernet connection—a fast, risk-free process.”

“Today, we feel very comfortable using Linux. Once it’s up and running, it’s exceptionally stable, and there is little that we need to do to manage and maintain it. Compared with our experience of other operating systems, we’ve found that the stability of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications …

“What initially attracted us to SUSE Enterprise Storage was the sheer flexibility it provides. Software-defined storage frees you completely from the physical constraints of traditional storage environments. We were won over by the fact that SUSE Enterprise Storage is fully supported by SUSE. We didn’t want the pressure or risk …

“The open source and hardware independency aspects of Linux are attractive to us, and of course the freedom to modify the software fits with the University’s ethos.”

“Compared with Solaris, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is easier for us to maintain, update and monitor, in part because we use the same platform for about 80 percent of our Linux landscape. Standardization of operating systems means that we can focus our skills in a more efficient way.”

“Previously, it took around 25 hours to apply major patches to our entire SUSE Linux Enterprise Server environment because we had to manually find, download, verify and deploy the patch individually on each server. Now, we can complete major updates within just four hours.”

“Since implementing the new architecture, we have experienced no downtime and have not once had to restart the server during working hours—we are achieving close to ‘five nines’ availability.”

“If we had chosen to deploy our previous highavailability platform, it would have cost us around ¤100,000. By selecting the SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, our only expense was three days of consulting time during the deployment—saving us ¤95,000.”

“By selecting SUSE Enterprise Storage powered by Ceph technology we gained access to all the benefits of Ceph without any downsides.”

“Choosing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and using virtualization gave us a lower-cost, high-availability platform that is fully supported by SAP. This enabled us to have a single point of contact for all support issues.”

“We originally chose SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in part on the strength of support we have received from SUSE. The quality of technical support from SUSE is excellent, and helps us to keep critical systems available to the organization around the clock. And with our licensing agreement, we have a …

“Using the SAP-certified SUSE distribution of Linux gives us confidence that our systems will continue to work reliably, which is a key concern in our industry. And where we encounter any difficulties, the support from SUSE is excellent and the response very timely. With SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP …