Advantages of SLES 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.

WhereSUSE Leads

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Linux in Automotive10 of the largest global automobile mfgs. are active SUSE customers

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Linux in Retail7 out of 10 of the largest retailers in theU.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 pharmaceuticalcompanies use SUSE Linux Enterprise

7/10

Linux in Aerospace9 out of 10 of the largest aerospacecompanies rely on SUSE

9/10SAP on Linux70% of all SAP applications runningon Linux run on SUSE

70%

Linux in HPCHalf of the world’s 20 largest supercomputers run on SUSE

50%

Linux in Large EnterpriseOver 80% of the Fortune Global 50 areactive SUSE Customers

80%

Mainframe LinuxOver 15 years of mainframe Linuxmarket share leadership

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Linux in Manufacturing7 out of 10 world’s largest manufacturersuse SUSE Linux Enterprise

7/10

Linux in Finance4 out of 5 of the world’s largestbanks 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 Features UNIX-level RAS features, such as Control Groups and MCE-log (Intel CPU) CPU RAS features like MCA Recovery

HA ClusteringSUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, including load-balancer and using OCFS2 mixed clustering between physical and virtual

Failover, clustering and network load balancing

Geo ClusteringGeo 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 FCoEData Center Bridging (DCB) OFED 1.5.4

8G FC adapter (Emullex)10G Ethernet adapteriSCSI 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-VHyper-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 cloudsPublic Cloud Module with easy initialization

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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 Extension11

SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Windows Server 2012 R2

Simple pricing model Expensive 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

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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

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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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