Driven by the need to demonstrate value to the business, IT organizations like yours are coming under increasing pressure to reduce infrastructure costs, manage capital expenditures, and consolidate operations. At the same time you need to provide more sophisticated support to the business. As result, leading IT organizations increasingly look at areas like standardization, virtualization and cloud computing for the benefits they can offer.

SUSE Studio is designed to help you build, configure and maintain portable and cloud-enabled application images or appliances, to reduce the complexity, maintenance and support costs of software deployments. Within a couple of clicks, you decide if you would like to deploy a new or existing application to a physical, virtual and/or cloud environment. SUSE Studio even lets you choose if you want to deploy your application within an x86 or mainframe environment. The ability to leverage one new or existing application for various environments dramatically improves the efficiency of deploying and maintaining applications.

SUSE Studio is a tremendous aid when it comes to reducing complexity. SUSE Studio leverages the appliance form-factor and allows you to effectively decouple the software installation from the underlying layer. This eliminates many of the versioning and patch management issues that you have to deal with normally. This can also help you standardize your applications to further reduce time, costs and maintenance for software applications deployed into your environment.

Benefits for IT departments:

• Flexibility to run your solution in physical, virtual and cloud environments
• Standardized solutions stacks
• Reduced deployment cycles
• Reduced maintenance costs due to reduced software updates
• Increased productivity during deployment and maintenance
• Complete management and control of deployed software appliances
• Enhanced security with application control and timely updating

Benefits for Software Vendors:

• Deploy your solution for various IT environments without extensive re-architecting and configuration
• Adapt quickly and easily to new business drivers
• Reduce the footprint of the combined installation (operating system, middleware, application) and the complexity of software installation, maintenance and support
• Keep control over the lifecycle of deployed systems
• Enhance security with application control and timely updating
• Accelerate time to market
• Increase customer satisfaction and decrease your support costs