Advantages of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Over Windows

The Growth of Open Source in the Enterprise

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UNIX vs. Linux Trends1

(Revenue in Millions)

1Source: Gartner

Linux is now the OS of choice in the enterprise replacing UNIX.

Where

SUSE Leads

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Linux in Automotive10 of the largest global automobile mfgs.

are active SUSE customers

x10

Linux in Retail7 out of 10 of the largest retailers in the

U.S. are active SUSE customers

7/10Linux in Telecom10 of the largest telecommunications

carriers rely on SUSE

x10Linux in Pharma7 out of 10 of the largest pharmaceutical

companies use SUSE Linux Enterprise

7/10

Linux in Aerospace9 out of 10 of the largest aerospace

companies rely on SUSE

9/10SAP on Linux70% of all SAP applications running

on Linux run on SUSE

70%

Linux in HPCHalf of the world’s 20 largest super

computers run on SUSE

50%

Linux in Large EnterpriseOver 80% of the Fortune Global 50 are

active SUSE Customers

80%

Mainframe LinuxOver 15 years of mainframe Linux

market share leadership

15+

Linux in Manufacturing7 out of 10 world’s largest manufacturers

use SUSE Linux Enterprise

7/10

Linux in Finance4 out of 5 of the world’s largest

banks use SUSE Linux Enterprise

4/5

A Broad Ecosystem

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13,500+CertifiedHardware

InteroperabilityPart of company-wide mission

2500+CertifiedProducts

8500+CertifiedApplications

3200SolutionProviders& SystemIntegrators

1800TechnologyPartners

600TrainingPartners

5000+PartnerEcosystemmembers

How SUSE Adds Value

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• Enterprise-qualityinnovation and service

• Affordable mission-criticalperformance

• Open, flexible,optimized for mixed IT

• IncreasedAgility

• ReclaimedBudget

• ReducedRisk

CustomerBenefits• Enterprise-quality

innovation and service

• Affordable mission-criticalperformance

• Open, flexible,optimized for mixed IT

Comparisons

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Reliability, Availability and Serviceability

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SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Windows Server 2012 R2

Hardware

Platforms

Supported

X86-64, IBM POWER8 LE,

IBM z Systems

(x86-32, IBM POWER and Itanium on SUSE

Linux Enterprise 11 SP3)

X86-64

RAS FeaturesUNIX-level RAS features, such as Control

Groups and MCE-log (Intel CPU)CPU RAS features like MCA Recovery

HA Clustering

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability

Extension, including load-balancer and using

OCFS2 mixed clustering between physical and

virtual

Failover, clustering and network load

balancing

Geo Clustering

Geo Clustering for SUSE Linux Enterprise High

Availability Extension, across virtual and

physical, with any distance worldwide

No geo clustering capability

Scalability

SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Windows Server 2012 R2

CPUs

Supported

The latest Intel CPUs Same

Vertical

Scalability

8,192 logical CPUs and 64 TB RAM (verified),

16 Exabyte file system size

320 logical CPUs and 4TB memory

Networking 8G/16G FC adapters

10G/40G Ethernet adapters

iSCSI target (LIO) support Improved FCoE

Data Center Bridging (DCB)

OFED 1.5.4

8G FC adapter (Emullex)

10G Ethernet adapter

iSCSI compatible (2008/R2/2012)

DCB (2008/R2/2012)

OFED support

Virtual Machine

Capacity

Unlimited VM per host*, 4TB memory per VM

(KVM)

64VM per host, 512GB memory per VM (Xen)

64 VM per host, 1TB memory per VM

*unlimited (total number of virtual CPUs in all guests being no greater than 8 times the number of CPU cores in the host) 8

Security and Patching

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SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Windows Server 2012 R2

Security Features UEFI Secure Boot, AppArmor, SELinux UEFI Secure Boot

Directory Service NIS, LDAP, SAMBA4 for

easy AD integration

Active Directory (LDAP based)

Standard

Compliance

Common Criteria Certification at EAL 4+,

U.S. Federal Information Processing

Standard (FIPS 140-2) certified for Open

SSL module*, USGv6/IPv6

Similar

Patching Granular patching, pick and choose

packages updates that make sense

Frequent patching and reboot

Live Kernel

Patching

SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching** N/A

*Achieved both on 11 SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 is under verification process.** SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 has infrastructure built in for the live kernel patching.

Virtualization and Cloud

SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Windows Server 2012 R2

As Virtual Guest Optimized on vSphere, Hyper-V and open

source hypervisors

Guest NUMA support, Share-nothing live

migration

As Virtual Host Xen and KVM hypervisor support, Linux

Containers (LXC), Docker (Tech Preview)

Hypervisor: Hyper-V

Hyper-V Network Virtualization

Private Cloud

Solution

Yes. With SUSE OpenStack Cloud, SUSE

Studio

and SUSE Manager

Windows Azure Pack

Public Cloud Available in AWS, Google, Azure and 50+

public clouds

Public Cloud Module with easy initialization

Similar

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Other Features

SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Windows Server 2012 R2

Web Server Apache IIS

File Systems Btrfs, XFS, Ext-Family, Reiserfs, OCFS2* ReFS

Server Management

and Update

YaST, ZYpp, Snapper, etc. Core Server Management, Windows Server

Update Services (WSUS)

Scripting Language bash, tcsh, Perl, Python, Ruby PowerShell, C Shell (via SUA), Perl

Lifecycle 10 years of general support, three years of

extended support;

five optional modules with different lifecycles

Five years of mainstream support (until Jan

2018), 10 years of extended support (Jan

2023);

No modules concept.

*in SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension

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SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Windows Server 2012 R2

Simple pricing modelExpensive and complicated pricing model in

bundling with other products

No license for the software, just service pricing for

maintenance and update

License + SA model; license is for the actual

software and SA covers service/updates

As virtual host, one price covers unlimited VMs Data center version covers unlimited VMs

No Client Access License (CAL) Need to cover CAL

Licensing and Pricing

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Success Stories

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Overview

Challenge Solution Results

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2015 / SLES / Agriculture / New Zealand

Turners & Growers is New Zealand’s leading distributor, marketer and exporter of premium fresh agricultural

produce. The company was founded in 1897 and has operations all over the world.

Turners & Growers Ltd

• Realized that migration its SAP applications

to IBM DB2 database running on Linux

would enable it to significantly reduce its

SAP licensing costs and deliver valuable

performance improvements

• IT team was having to spend a significant

amount of time applying patches and

servies packs to its Windows systems to

protect them from the latest security

threats, which required downtime for SAP

applications.

• Turners & Growers decided to migrate its

SAP applications to IBM DB2 on SUSE

Linux Enterprise Server, and at the same

time to complete the Unicode conversion

required to ensure that its SAP applications

could properly support its global business.

• Increased performance of business-critical

SAP applications by around 15 percent

• Significantly reduced the company’s SAP

license fees

• Cut 60 percent from OS licensing costs

• Cut time spent applying security patches by

60 percent

Overview

Challenge Solution Results

+ Read Story+ Watch Video

2015 / SLES / Electronics / Japan

Established in 1957, CASIO is a major global manufacturer of electronic products for home and business

use. Famous for creating the world’s first electronic desktop calculator, the company today brings innovation

to a wide range of products, from digital cameras to LCD screens. CASIO employs 13,000 people in 20

Japanese companies and 19 overseas subsidiaries.

Casio

• Consolidate and virtualize hundreds of

servers.

• Improve productivity by standardizing

communication tools across the group.

• Promote better IT control and cost-

efficiency.

• By implementing SUSE Linux Enterprise

Server with the SUSE Linux Enterprise

Virtual Machine Driver Pack, CASIO

successfully achieved the same

performance for virtualized servers as it

was getting with its original solution, but at

around 10% of the cost. CASIO is using

servers with the latest Intel VT and AMD-V

processors to enable bare-metal

virtualisation at nearnative speeds.

• Created a high-performance thin-client

appliance capable of extremely rapid

deployment

• Enabled the re-use of existing desktop

hardware, avoiding the need for new

capital investments.

• Provided a fast and consistent user

experience in the office, from home and on

mobile devices anywhere.

Overview

Challenge Solution Results

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2011 / SLES / IT / The Netherlands

Infonet is a global networking service provider offering fully managed, integrated communications

infrastructures, including data center services. Under this distribution relationship, Infonet delivers network

services, communication solutions, data center services and service management.

Infonet Nederland B.V.

• Each SAP landscape was divided into

production, test and development

environments, requiring a total of 12

physical servers running Microsoft

Windows and Oracle* database software.

• Determined that the new SAP software

would require it to replace all 12 existing

servers. Increasing the upgrade costs and

stretch the IT team to the limit.

• Infonet created a fully virtualized platform

for its SAP software using SUSE Linux

Enterprise Server and VMware*

infrastructure, a combination certified by

SAP.

• Rather than requiring the deployment of a

new physical server for each production,

test and development landscape, the use of

virtualization technology enabled Infonet to

build all three environments for each SAP

application within a single server.

• Cut IT operational costs by 20%.

• Reduced administration workload by 30%.

• Consolidated physical server landscape by

75%.

Overview

Challenge Solution Results

+ Read Story

2013 / SLES / Manufacturing / Finland

Orbis Oy provides intelligent quality control, testing and measuring systems as well as advanced instrument

and component solutions for research and development, production, and after-sales needs of the

telecommunication and electronics industries.

Orbis Oy

• Wanted to reduce total cost of ownership

for its SAP environment which was running

on multiple physical severs with associated

high software licensing and support fees.

• As its global business grew, Orbis wanted

to take advantage of newer ERP

functionality, which necessitated a

migration to the latest release, SAP ERP

6.0 version of the SAP software.

• Headstart and Centilane proposed a

solution based on SUSE Linux Enterprise

Server with built-in Xen virtualisation

technology. By migrating from

Windows/Oracle to Linux* and the MaxDB

database from SAP, Headstart and

Centilane were able to generate significant

cost savings for Orbis in terms of SAP

software licensing and support fees.

• Reduced software support and licensing

costs.

• Enabled rapid upgrade to latest version of

SAP.

• Improved flexibility and speed of disaster

recovery.

Overview

Challenge Solution Results

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2013 / SLES for SAP / Food / Brazil

Established in 1945, Vonpar is one of Brazil's largest Coca-Cola franchises. With 2,500 people to

manufacture and distribute approximately 67 million litres of product to more than 60,000 customers each

month. The company enjoys a 56.4% market share in its region, and generates annual revenues of 1.2 billion

Reais (US$700 million).

Vonpar

• Existing infrastructure was unable to deliver

sufficient performance.

• Sought to reduce IT costs.

• Saw virtualization as a good option and

decided to investigate the different

technologies on the market.

• The Vonpar IT team migrated its SAP

applications and databases from Windows

into eight virtualized SUSE Linux Enterprise

Server environments on three of the new

servers.

• Provided a stable and highly available

environment for SAP applications.

• Reduced hardware costs by 75%, software

costs by 20% and power costs by 12.5%.

• Increased IT team productivity by 30% and

reduced administrative workload by 10% to

20%.

Conclusion

• Linux is the fastest growing server OS with established

maturity, capacity and popularity.

• Open source software gives you more choices and less

vendor lock-in risk.

• SUSE Linux Enterprise is a reliable, scalable and

secure platform for your mission-critical workloads. It’s

more open and more cost-effective.

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