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Product Flyer
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: The Solution for Mission-critical Computing ®
Dealing with downtime, security breaches and high costs? Your data center should drive business forward—not derail it. It’s time for a better choice in enterprise computing, and that’s why organizations worldwide are turning to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell . This innovative data center powerhouse is ready for your business. You get maximum reliability and security—and a way to cut your infrastructure costs by up to 70 percent.
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The Best Choice for Your Data Center
Integrated Xen Virtualization
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is an enterprise-quality server designed to handle mission-critical workloads in the data center. Only SUSE Linux Enterprise Server offers an open, scalable, high-performance data center solution that comes with integrated virtualization, application security and systems management across a full range of hardware architectures. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is deployable as a general-purpose server or can be tailored to run a variety of specialized workloads, and it offers seamless interoperability with your existing IT infrastructure. With SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, your business can dramatically reduce costs while deploying the most secure and reliable data center server on the market.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server integrates the latest Xen 3.0 virtualization technology— so you can more efficiently process enterprise workloads and reduce costs. You have complete flexibility: you can consolidate multiple workloads on a single server or allocate a single workload across multiple servers. Now, your business requirements can drive your IT infrastructure—instead of the other way around. The majority of today’s servers run at less than 20 percent utilization. With the integrated Xen virtualization in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, you can increase that utilization to levels of up to 70 percent. Specifically, you can use it to: Consolidate physical servers and applications, which leads to lower hardware, maintenance and electrical costs.
“We chose SUSE Linux Enterprise because of the flexibility we get from Novell compared to other vendors. Novell worked with us on both the technical and contractual sides and gave us better pricing and support options. We could never invest in such a missioncritical system without the right vendor support.” Arno Radermacher Head of IT Sal. Oppenheim
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By switching to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on commodity hardware, some organizations have reduced their infrastructure costs by up to 70 percent.
“The move to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server was completely transparent— we had no interruption whatsoever. We didn’t have to do any training for our 55,000 employees which could have been very costly.” Frederico Wanderley CIO Casas Bahia
Improve business continuity and system uptime by migrating disparate workloads onto virtual machines without interruption. Leverage excess data center capacity and improve response times by balancing computing loads across data center resources during peak times. You can migrate server workloads to virtual farms and release physical resources that can be redeployed for other uses. Provide application portability and flexibility across hardware platforms.
you buy what matters: a subscription for the updates and services that help you run your business. A SUSE Linux Enterprise Server subscription costs just a fraction of what you would likely pay for a proprietary operating system.
Total Security—Even for Your Applications Linux* is inherently more secure than other operating systems, but the applications that run on it are sometimes the focal point of external attacks. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server eliminates this vulnerability with the powerful application-level security in Novell AppArmor™. Novell AppArmor protects your operating system—and all its applications— from the harmful side effects of internal or external attacks, malicious applications and viruses.
Lower Your Data Center Costs Most organizations that offer virtualization require you to pay a separate licensing fee for each virtual server you create. That’s never the case with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. You only pay for your original license and subscription. You can then create and use an unlimited number of virtual servers at no further cost. With SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, you save on hardware, too. Its proven compatibility with a range of commodity hardware—from blades to clusters and mainframes—simplifies integration and reduces your costs. By switching to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on commodity hardware, some organizations have reduced their infrastructure costs by up to 70 percent. Finally, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server changes the way you think about buying software. No longer tied to complex licensing programs,
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the only enterprise-class Linux server to: Provide out-of-the-box application security at no extra cost. Provide automated application-profiling and policy-creation tools that simplify application security administration and configuration. With these tools, you can create security policies in minutes, not days. Permit dynamic policy updates without service interruption. In addition to Novell AppArmor, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server features other essential security capabilities: encryption, a firewall, security-certificate creation and management, user authentication and access control. With all these security resources at hand, your business can protect mission-critical data, reduce system administration costs, and prevent downtime and lost revenue.
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“We chose SUSE Linux Enterprise Server because it offered the best overall package of support, a stable distribution of Linux and a long-term relationship with a trusted partner.”
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: The Solution for Mission-critical Computing
Nick Leake Director of Operations and Infrastructure ITV
Support for Essential Business Applications SUSE Linux Enterprise Server includes the latest stable releases of key development tools, services and environments for the “Web 2.0” infrastructure. These include Apache Web Server, Perl, Python, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Ruby, Geronimo, Apache Tomcat and many others. In addition, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server offers out-ofthe-box support for more than 1,000 open source applications. When it comes to commercial application software support, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server has substantial industry backing from leading independent software vendors, including SAP, Oracle, Symantec, VMware, Reuters and BEA. More than 1,300 partners provide nearly 3,000 applications that are certified to run on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, spanning a broad range of horizontal and vertical markets.
A Server You Can Rely on When it comes to your business, downtime isn’t an option. That’s why SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the logical choice for your data center. Its performance and rocksolid reliability have been demonstrated in some of the world’s largest deployments. It currently powers three of the top global supercomputers and was chosen by Oracle to run its on-demand 64-bit data center. As your data volumes grow, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server helps ensure business continuity, data integrity and system reliability.
It is the first enterprise-class Linux server with a fully integrated storage foundation made up of open source components. You get highly reliable storage management at a low cost by using commodity hardware and Ethernet, rather than expensive Fibre Channel switches. In addition, this storagemanagement solution scales to 10 Gigabit (10,000 Mbps), providing the bandwidth you need—whenever you need it. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the only enterprise-class Linux server that: Ships a fully integrated, multinode, highavailability solution at no extra cost. Makes it easy to install and configure the integrated cluster software. Provides cluster-aware, multipath fault tolerance for a wide variety of industrystandard storage subsystems. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server runs on all leading hardware, so your organization has complete deployment flexibility. Whether you choose to install it on servers, clients, singleprocessor whitebox systems, blades or the largest mainframes, you’ll find that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is certified on the architectures you need. It runs on many popular systems, including x86, AMD64, Intel* EM64T, Intel Itanium* 2 (IA-64), IBM* PowerPC and IBM mainframes. And scalability is never an issue: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server scales to 512 processors on most standard architectures and up to 1,024 processors on IA-64 systems.
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More than 1,300 partners provide nearly 3,000 applications that are certified to run on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, spanning a broad range of horizontal and vertical markets.
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“Our systems that are running on SUSE Linux Enterprise have been immensely reliable. Having an open enterprise gives us flexibility at both ends of the scale—we can change our hardware or software without changing our entire environment or consulting all other vendors.” Mark Williams Manager of Specialist Services Kent Police Authority
Comprehensive Systems Management Many systems administrators will tell you that installing and configuring a single server is a trivial task, but it becomes a daunting endeavor when scaled across the enterprise. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ships with a comprehensive set of administration, configuration and deployment tools that ease the burden of system maintenance and subscription management. These features include: YaST. A unique tool that can configure every aspect of the server—from adding users to configuring applications. AutoYaST. A tool that automates installation for a large number of machines. It saves you a significant amount of time because installations can be performed in parallel and without user intervention. Novell Customer Center. A convenient online interface that you can use to easily manage subscriptions and support entitlements. It ensures uninterrupted access to software updates and security patches.
Support for the open common information management (CIM) standard. This provides a vendor-independent framework for system management and allows other CIM-enabled management solutions to easily run on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server systems.
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Contact your local Novell Solutions Provider, or call Novell at: 1 888 321 4272 U.S./Canada 1 801 861 4272 Worldwide 1 801 861 8473 Facsimile
The Best Linux for Your Business By a large margin, industry experts prefer SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. It was recently named Best Enterprise Server Distribution at the LinuxWorld* Conference & Expo in Frankfurt, Germany and handily beat the next-closest competitor 53 percent to 37 percent. What can a reliable, secure and costeffective Linux server do for your bottom line? It’s time to find out—try SUSE Linux Enterprise Server today. Learn more at: www.novell.com/linuxenterpriseserver
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