ABeam Consulting Co., Ltd.
- Boosts employee productivity by providing reliable, performant IT services
- Reduces risk via long solution support cycle
- Supports growth strategy with scalable IT environment
- Offers competitive edge by providing firsthand experience of in-demand solutions
Industry
Business Services
Location
Japan
Aché
- Provides a cost-effective high availability solution
- Processes workloads from 30 to 110 times faster than its Oracle implementation in tests
Industry
Health Care
Location
Brazil
Agricultural Development Bank of China
- Cuts TCO for operating system by 20%
- Meets and exceeds all security standards for the bank
- Enables IT problems to be solved in hours, not weeks
- Guarantees almost 100% uptime for mission- critical applications
Industry
Financial Services
Location
China
Águas de Portugal
- Reduces time spent on salary processing by 67%
- Cuts energy consumption processing from 10 minutes to 1.1 seconds
- Enables superior performance through SAP and SUSE's close partnership
Industry
Utility
Location
Portugal
Air India
- Increased stability and performance of messaging systems
- Ensured enterprise-class availability
- Low maintenance/monitoring effort: 10,000-user email system managed by just two engineers
Industry
Travel Hospitality
Location
India
Alegri International Service GmbH
- Provides a tested, reliable and easy-to-manage platform to operate mission-critical SAP applications
- Optimized for Microsoft Azure cloud, enabling clients to adopt SAP HANA technology in as little as 30 minutes—instead of several weeks
- Integrated automation allows clients to start and stop virtual servers rapidly as required, reducing operating costs by 60%
Industry
Computer Services
Location
Germany
Alegri International Service GmbH
- Saw a 60% cost reduction
- Able to streamline operations to leverage the full extent of their technology
- Created a training system in minutes
Industry
Consulting
Location
Germany
Allone
- Gained powerful new platform for software deployment
- Expanded product range, giving clients more options
- Enabled clients to improve the reliability and scalability of their trading systems
Industry
High-Tech
Location
Taiwan, Republic of China
Altran
- Gained a flexible, highly available and secure platform
- Enabled low-touch management and systems administration
- Achieved scalability at low total cost of ownership
Products
Industry
Business Services
Location
Norway
APA-IT Informations Technologie GmbH
- Simplified SAP software deployment and maintenance
- Ensured compatibility with future releases and features
- Leveraged existing skills, tools and operations processes
Industry
Computer Services
Location
Austria
ApiOmat
- Allows seamless scaling of the ApiOmat platform, so that customers can quickly take their apps from prototype to production deployment
- Enables ApiOmat to better serve its enterprise customers by giving them the flexibility to deploy apps in any environment, from on-premises to public cloud
- Builds trust with potential customers thanks to the SUSE brand, which stands for enterprise-grade solutions and support
Products
Industry
Computer Services
Location
Germany
Apollo Optik
- Automated server deployment
- Simplified and centralized systems, configuration and software management
Industry
Retail/Wholesale
Location
Germany
Appriss
- Unlimited VM expansion per server at no extra cost
- Improved security—with 4-hour patching time for 500–600 servers
- Greater operational efficiency and less downtime risk-with 9 IT staff (vs. 2) capable of servicing Linux
- Reduced patching time for all servers—from every two years to quarterly
- Cost savings of $80,000 on Oracle licenses
Industry
Government
Location
United States
APX
- Customers can keep full control of software and applications
- Quick and easy to implement solution
- Flexibility available for customers to choose between public, private and hybrid clouds
Products
Industry
High-Tech
Location
France
ARCHIVA
- Reduces support requests from clients by 90%
- Saves 80% on server management costs
- Enables clients’ files to be easily received, stored and retrieved at any time with total security
Products
Industry
Business Services
Location
Italy
Asia Innovatory Management School
- Saved an estimated US$20,000 in year one
- Enabled ongoing annual savings of US$4,000 through reduced power consumption
- Reduced desktop PC support requirements by 20 hours per week
Products
Industry
Education
Location
Singapore
Akademicki Szpital Kliniczny (ASK)
- Created a stable platform that enables security-reinforced applications for sharing sensitive patient information
- Standardized on a single operating system that is leading to consolidation and simplification in the data center
- Gave IT personnel valuable time back to focus on other essential tasks
Products
Industry
Health Care
Location
Poland
Atlantique Automatismes Incendie (AAI)
- Increases scalability, giving AAI a stable platform for growth
- Enables fast analytical insight with accelerated performance
- Powers stellar customer service during peak times through high availability
Industry
Manufacturing
Location
France
ATLAS ELEKTRONIK GmbH
- Shortened software development and deployment by 25%
- Accelerated software deployment for testing by 10%
- Provides greater control over appliance development with centralized management
Products
Industry
Manufacturing
Location
Germany
AutoData Norge AS
- Reduced software maintenance costs by running new mainframe workloads on Linux
- Enabled faster and less costly response to customer demands for new functionality
- Created a stable, flexible environment for serving multiple customers securely
Industry
High-Tech
Location
Norway
Baldor Electric
- 30% lower hardware and software costs
- 90% consolidation of servers (resulting in lower space, cooling and power costs)
- 90% improvement in up-time (reducing disaster recovery losses)
Industry
Manufacturing
Location
United States
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.
- Provides flexible link between multiple services
- Allows new services to be implemented quickly
- Handles high volume of transactions
Industry
Banking and Finance
Location
Japan
Banque du Liban
- 60% reduction in licensing costs for Oracle databases
- Increases performance and availability of key business applications
- Enables the bank to maximize utilization of its mainframe
Industry
Banking and Finance
Location
Lebanon
Beijing Computing Center
- Reduced administration effort by approximately 50% and boosted productivity by 20%
- Implemented simplified subscription pricing to help keep licensing costs low
- Delivered a stable, versatile foundation that maximises the value and efficiency of the supercomputing environment
Products
Industry
Government
Location
China
Beijing Rural Commercial Bank
- Unlocked significant cost savings by migrating away from proprietary hardware and OS
- Reduced system administration requirements
- Accelerated problem-solving
- Reduced the effort involved in troubleshooting
Products
Industry
Banking and Finance
Location
China
Bereket Enerji
- Slashes licensing costs by an estimated 80 percent
- Delivers enhanced IT stability, reliability and performance
- Paves the way to visionary Internet of Things project
Industry
Energy/Gas
Location
Turkey
Bikurei Hasadeh Darom
- SAP HANA database provides stable, high-performance platform for business data
- SAP Business One drives fast, smooth transactions
- Highly engineered SUSE platform minimizes costly skills training
Industry
Food
Location
Israel
Biological E. Ltd.
- Cut IT expenditure by 50 percent through lower investment, licensing and maintenance costs
- Delivered 99.9 percent uptime for mission-critical SAP applications
- Ensures that business continues as usual in the event of downtime with near-instant failover capabilities
Industry
Pharmaceuticals
Location
India
Boydak Holding
- Achieved a rapid, low-risk TDI deployment of SAP HANA on IBM POWER8
- Decreased database size by 74 percent and simplified management
- Accelerated some SAP reports by more than 120 times with in-memory technology
- Increased customer satisfaction
Industry
Manufacturing
Location
Turkey
Bright Computing
- Able to reach important segments of the market with this technology partnership
- The Bright and SUSE partnership enables the ability to meet the requirements of the most complex and most demanding computing environments
Products
Industry
High-Tech
Location
United States
Britehouse
- Enabled low-cost, high-performance platform for SAP applications
- Provided stable, secure platform for delivering software-as-a-service
- Offered granular, auditable control over access to sensitive data
Products
Industry
High-Tech
Location
South Africa
Broadview Networks
- Building on its SUSE products and partnership
- Geo clustering and The Broadview Networks geo redundant architecture
- Geo clustering extensions including the geographic failover switch
Industry
Communications
Location
United States
BSE Ltd.
- Cut IT operating costs by 50 percent
- Improved agility, helping IT team respond more quickly to changing demands
Industry
Banking and Finance
Location
India
The Burton Corporation
- Reduced overall server-related costs by 80%, compared to previous proprietary solution
- Achieved 99.999% uptime
- Reduced power consumption by 30%
Products
Industry
Consumer Packaged Goods
Location
United States
Business Connexion
- Created a flexible environment for hosted services
- Delivered high performance for Oracle databases
- Enabled competitive pricing for client services
Industry
High-Tech
Location
South Africa
C&A
- Supports efficient, flexible operation of critical applications to facilitate digital transformation
- Achieves highest levels of availability to ensure fast and reliable data backups
- Enables closely integrated, high-throughput and low-latency data exchange between applications, accelerating business processes
Industry
Retail/Wholesale
Location
Germany
Café Coffee Day
- Improved control over extended supply chain
- Gained reliable, scalable ERP platform with low cost of ownership
- Ensured round-the-clock priority support for entire solution stack
Industry
Distribution
Location
India
Calzedonia Group
- Saved 70% on hardware acquisition costs and saved 90% on hardware maintenance costs compared to a proprietary solution
- Achieved 99.99% uptime for business-critical SAP applications
- Simplified operational support through integrated support from both SAP and SUSE
Industry
Fashion/Retail
Location
Italy
Canadian Bank Note
- Improvement in ease of management and ease of administration
- Receive excellent support and excellent documentation
- Open source community provides quick and easy ways to find answers to problems
Industry
Banking and Finance
Location
Canada
Centurylink
- 64 times quicker completion of some financial transactions
- 1.57 times faster cost allocation during month-end close
- 13.78 times quicker extraction of data for financial consolidations
- 12 times faster reporting on retiree wages
- 3.6 times quicker transfer of personnel data from SAP application to third-party identity management system
- 5.14 times faster production of reconciliation reports for net pay
Industry
Telecommunications
Location
United States
Ceylon Biscuits Limited
- Improves SAP application response times by 20 percent versus equivalent platform
- Reduces cost of ownership considerably compared to UNIX platforms
- Offers more than 98 percent availability for business-critical ERP system
Industry
Consumer Packaged Goods
Location
Sri Lanka
Changchun University of Technology
- Saves on external support costs with rapid recovery in the event of unplanned outages
- Cuts floor space, power and cooling requirements with a consolidated IT infrastructure
- Reduces administration time with a unified management interface
- Minimizes need for maintenance with a stable deployment of Xen virtualization on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Industry
Education
Location
China
Centre for Human Drug Research (CHDR)
- 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
Products
Industry
Health Care
Location
Netherlands
China Everbright Bank
- Cuts total cost of ownership for production systems
- Guarantees high availability and scalability for mission-critical systems
- Eliminates risk of vendor lock-in, reducing risk and fostering innovation
- Offered an easy and successful migration path from UNIX to Linux
Products
Industry
Financial Services
Location
China
China Meteorological Administration
- Reduced user administration costs by 70%
- Increased security and scalability
- Reduced administrative costs and decreased downtime
Industry
Government
Location
China
China Minsheng Banking Corporation
- Slashed TCO of IT infrastructure by 80 percent
- Reduces hardware costs for SAP HANA platform by 50 percent
- 80 percent of problems solved in-house, with SUSE engineers fixing the rest
- Boosted business agility by accelerating application delivery
Industry
Banking and Finance
Location
China
China Telecom Corporation Chongqing
- Increased flexibility and reduced reliance on individual vendors
- Reduced costs compared to proprietary UNIX operating systems
- Provided high levels of security and stability
Products
Industry
Telecommunications
Location
China
China UnionPay Merchant Services Co., Ltd
- Supported tenfold company growth in ten years with consistent IT performance and stability
- Contributed to employee productivity through ease of management
- Met business needs via ongoing release of new capabilities
Industry
Banking and Finance
Location
China
China UnionPay
- Slashed time-to-market for innovative banking services
- Supported future business expansion
- Cut hardware costs by 10 percent
Products
Industry
Banking and Finance
Location
China
Ciclum Farma
- Reduced IT operating costs by 50 percent through virtualization
- Delivered 100 percent uptime for mission-critical SAP applications in nine months since the solution has gone live
Industry
Pharmaceuticals
Location
Portugal
CIR food
- Reduces time taken to generate reports from 20 minutes to just seconds
- Allows CIR food to manage huge amounts of data more quickly and cost-effectively
- Supports better decision-making, helping the company to keep customer satisfaction high while controlling costs
- Generated cost savings of 70%, which enabled CIR food to invest in SAP HANA running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Industry
Food
Location
Italy
Cloud4com
- Provides a flexible, mutualized platform to support business-critical operations.
- Helps Cloud4com’s customers adopt SAP HANA rapidly and easily.
- Lays the foundations for continuing growth by attracting increasing numbers of customers.
- Positions Cloud4com as a world-class hosting partner ready to bring the advantages of SAP HANA to more Czech businesses.
Industry
Computer Services
Location
Czech Republic
CNCA
- Created stable, secure, reliable platform for business application
- Reduced total cost of ownership by an estimated 15 percent and increased flexibility
Products
Industry
Government
Location
China
Colacem
- Helps the company to respond more proactively to new international challenges
- Provides integrated, cost-effective and highly reliable support for core operations.
- Streamlines and accelerates application updates
Industry
Manufacturing
Location
Italy
Computacenter AG & Co oHG
- Able to manage and support sites with multiple Linux distributions while meeting stringent compliance regulations
- Prepared to meet customer’s expectations now and into the future
Products
Industry
Other
Location
Germany
Consol Glass
- Saved, approximately, 25 percent on IT operating costs by migrating to a cloud environment
- Reached 99.999 percent availability for business-critical SAP applications
- Increased flexibility to react faster to changing market conditions
Products
Industry
Manufacturing
Location
South Africa
Coop (Switzerland)
- Enabled migration of 1,200 info terminals within 14 weeks
- Provided a faster, more reliable platform for Java and web applications
- Increased standardisation by running SUSE Linux Enterprise on both servers and info terminals in the shops
Industry
Retail/Wholesale
Location
Switzerland
Ctac
- Increased flexibility with a single operating system on multiple hardware platforms
- Automated patch management across multiple environments and Linux distributions
- Accelerated deployment of new Linux instances to just 10 minutes
Industry
Software
Location
Netherlands
SUSE Successfully Delivers Major Linux Migration
- SUSE software cuts time taken to provision IT services to 20 minutes, simplifying administration and minimizing business disruption
- SUSE Manager boosted security and efficiency with the ability to patch hundreds of servers at once
- The SUSE solution enabled the migration of thousands of instances from UNIX to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ahead of the original plan
Industry
Automotive
Location
Germany
DARZ
- Opens up a new revenue stream
- Low administration requirements thanks to clever use of automation
- Reduces operating costs
- Delivers outstanding reliability and excellent value for money
Industry
Computer Services
Location
Germany
Datalounges
- Simplifies and accelerates the deployment of OpenStack cloud landscapes
- Provides robust, secure, high-performance virtual servers in the cloud
- Supports rapid innovation and the launch of new revenue-generating services
Products
Industry
Computer Services
Location
Finland
Delta Lloyd Lebensversicherung AG
- Reduced software licensing costs by up to 20%
- Gained the ability to manage any RPM-based Linux distributions
- Opened up new technical and commercial opportunities for the future
Products
Industry
Insurance
Location
Germany
Delta Lloyd
- Simplified Linux management by standardising on a single distribution
- Reduced software licensing and support costs by porting a major application from IBM AIX to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
- Reduced infrastructure costs by moving from proprietary hardware to commodity x86 processor-based servers
Products
Industry
Insurance
Location
Netherlands
Descon Engineering Limited
- Offered high resiliency to help keep mission-critical SAP ERP applications running at all times
- Cut daily administration workload by 63%, thanks to user-friendly interface and resilient design
- Enabled restoration of production services 80% faster than legacy environment, through high-availability configuration
Industry
Engineering
Location
Pakistan
Deutsche Flugsicherung
- Experienced zero downtime since implementation
- Avoided additional investment in proprietary, closed-source operating systems
- Significant savings on license fees at both the development stage and when the systems are in operation
Industry
Other
Location
Germany
Deutsche Rentenversicherung
- Contributed to a 10% reduction in total operational costs by migrating to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems and LinuxONE
- Consolidated standalone servers, increasing energy efficiency and cutting hardware costs
- Built a more open platform that supports future software development
Industry
Insurance
Location
Germany
Dimension Data India
- Delivers proven platform for meeting client demands around SAP performance
- Ensures excellent OEM support for both OS and SAP systems
- Provides SAP application environments on SUSE OS in SAP-certified data centers
Industry
Computer Services
Location
India
dm-drogerie markt
- Cuts SAP response times by 40 percent on average
- Migration completed three months earlier than planned
- Enables better price-performance ratio
Industry
Retail/Wholesale
Location
Germany
Dresden Chess Olympiad
- Broadcast 6,050 chess games, with 550 concurrent games in early stages
- Served near real-time updates to up to one million simultaneous viewers
- Provided stable, high-performance environment at low cost
Products
Industry
Government
Location
Germany
Dundee City Council
- Gained a single certified platform for business-critical applications
- Supported increasing levels of virtualization for a smaller, more efficient infrastructure
- Provided a stable, secure, cost-effective and flexible platform
Industry
Government
Location
United Kingdom
Dynaplast
- Eliminated month-end financial closing delays
- Cut backup times from more than two hours to around 30 minutes
- Reduced hardware costs and software licence fees
Products
Industry
Manufacturing
Location
Indonesia
Edumate
- Delivers more than US$20,000 a year in appliance development cost savings
- Cuts image deployment time from four or five hours to just 20 minutes
- Provides greater control and consistency over appliance development
Products
Industry
Computer Services
Location
Australia
EFiS EDI Finance Service AG
- Reduced energy costs by 30 percent
- Accelerated deployment of new systems by more than 90 percent
Industry
Banking and Finance
Location
Germany
El Ezaby Pharmacy
- Reduced system update time from 6 hours to 16 minutes
- Rapid updates eliminate unnecessary downtime
- Increased availability ensures reliable customer service
Industry
Retail/Wholesale
Location
Egypt
Emmelibri
- Boosts processing capacity for business-critical SAP applications
- Helps to save 25% in software and hardware licensing costs
- Offers a clear, realistic roadmap for future requirements
Industry
Media/Publishing
Location
Italy
EnBW
- Provides excellent performance for business-critical SAP systems and Oracle databases
- Significantly cut operational costs by reducing the number of physical servers needed
- Saves time on routine IT management tasks
Products
Industry
Utility
Location
Germany
Endress+Hauser
- Moved from IBM AIX to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems and LinuxONE, enabling consolidation of 14 physical servers to a single IBM z Systems mainframe
- Enabled very rapid provisioning and easy management of virtualized Linux environments
- Simplified disaster recovery processes for business-critical SAP applications
Industry
Manufacturing
Location
Switzerland
Englmayer
- Delivers high performance, providing a solid platform for SAP HANA
- Small footprint and easy management helps Englmayer handle new demands at low cost
- Eliminates single points of failure to help ensure high availability
Industry
Distribution
Location
Austria
Epitech
- Simplified the deployment and management of cloud infrastructure
- Enabled the rapid creation of sandbox environments for student projects
- Provided valuable hands-on experience of open cloud technologies
Industry
Education
Location
France
eThekwini Municipality
- Provided a stable platform for handling 30 billion ZAR in annual payments
- Decreased software licensing costs by a factor of up to five
- Avoided deploying and licensing up to 60 standalone servers
Industry
Government
Location
South Africa
Etos
- Eliminated unexpected downtime
- Reduced hardware costs by 80 percent and software costs by 20 percent
- Reduced overall IT costs by 650,000
Products
Industry
Retail/Wholesale
Location
Netherlands
EUROCONTROL
- Delivered more than a 20% cost advantage over alternative configurations
- Increased flexibility and met all the business requirements for safety, performance and availability using virtualisation
- Simplified management for a complex environment by using the IBM zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager and Linux on the hybrid IBM zEnterprise System, helping to significantly reduce administrative effort, time and costs
Industry
Aviation
Location
Netherlands
European Space Agency
- Supported better efficiency in financial processes
- Slashed system maintenance costs by 40 percent in year one
- Cut energy expense and cooling costs by eliminating 150 physical server
Industry
Research and Engineering
Location
Italy
European Space Agency
- Around 60 systems installed in ESA deep space ground stations will be migrated to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server between 2012 and 2014
- Around 350 systems running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server have been deployed at ESOC, mainly for Spacecraft Mission Control
- Motivation to migrate: implementing a robust, easy-to-configure OS for long-term maintainability
- Deployed a stable and consistent baseline platform to support important scientific missions
Products
Industry
Research and Engineering
Location
France
Evonik Industries
- Boosted performance: some SAP applications run four to five times faster on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
- Reduced hardware costs by moving from proprietary systems to x86 platforms
- Received seamless technical support for both SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SAP through a single point of access
Industry
Chemicals
Location
Germany
Experian
- Optimizes use of storage capacity, reducing the need for significant CAPEX investment
- Increases performance and strengthens business continuity
- Automates workload allocation, enabling IT staff to dedicate more time to value-add tasks
Industry
Computer Services
Location
United Kingdom
Fabbrica Automatismi Apertura Cancelli (FAAC)
- Reduced maintenance costs by 50% by moving from a proprietary operating system to Linux
- Improved performance, reducing SAP response times by 50%
- Simplified system management, reducing workload by up to 15%
Products
Industry
Manufacturing
Location
Italy
FARYS
- Automates patching and provisioning, freeing IT assets to focus on value-adding tasks
- Saves up to £95,000 on high-availability capabilities by avoiding the need for a third-party solution
- Cuts query times by 98 percent, supporting deeper analytics and better informed decision making
Industry
Utility
Location
Belgium
Fauji Fertilizer Bin Qasim Ltd
- Provided a highly cost-effective infrastructure for SAP ERP
- Achieved better than 99% availability in the SAP environment
- Gained a single point of contact for all IT support issues
Industry
Manufacturing
Location
Pakistan
Federal Employment Agency
- Gained a stable platform offering certified compatibility with numerous applications
- Lowered database server operations costs by 80 percent
- Reduced power consumption by more than 80 percent
Products
Industry
Government
Location
Germany
FIS-ASP
- Accelerates complex system deployments from between 40 and 60 days to just two or three days
- Enables use of commodity hardware, unlocking cost savings of around 50 percent
- 20 percent less time spent on administration compared with other operating systems
Industry
Computer Services
Location
Germany
Fitch Ratings
- Decreased the time it took to complete process chains from hours to minutes
- Delivered functional environment in weeks instead of months built on AWS infrastructure
Industry
Financial Services
Location
United States
Geberit
- Saved licensing costs and improved overall uptime
- Improved SAP system performance by up to 60%
- Gained integrated support from SUSE and SAP
Industry
Industrial Products
Location
Switzerland
GESIS
- Reduced downtime during system updates by 83%
- Shortened the time it takes to patch systems by 75%
- Cut IT hardware and operating costs considerably
Products
Industry
Manufacturing
Location
Germany
Getronics
- Built robust high-availability platform for business-critical SAP applications
- Reduced total cost of ownership for hosting environment
- Created flexible standardised platform for future client environments
Products
Industry
High-Tech
Location
Netherlands
GRAWE Group
- Eliminated the time-consuming task of updating servers individually, improving productivity by 20%
- Accelerated the deployment of new systems by 40%
- Increased visibility of the server landscape, providing an instant overview for system administrators
Products
Industry
Insurance
Location
Austria
Greenply
- Reduced IT operational costs by streamlining OS management and maintenance
- Accelerated business insight, cutting report run-times from hours to minutes
- Provided a stable, high-performance, easy-to-manage platform for SAP ERP
- Eliminated dependence on costly proprietary hardware
Industry
Industrial Products
Location
India
Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology
- Supports cutting-edge scientific research in plant biology, helping to foster innovation
- Gives scientists quicker and easier access to the latest computational tools and high-performance computing resources
- Enables deployment of virtual machines in a private cloud in just 10 minutes
- Reduces time spent on provisioning and managing IT services
Industry
Research
Location
Austria
Gruppo API
- Consolidated numerous physical and virtual machines to a single IBM z10 mainframe
- Gained open, flexible platform for new applications
- Reduced costs for hardware, software and maintenance
Industry
Energy/Gas
Location
Italy
Halkbank Turkey
- Helps to reduce infrastructure complexity and simplify maintenance
- Expected to reduce software development and licensing costs considerably
- Provides a stable, flexible platform for supporting future business growth
Industry
Banking and Finance
Location
Turkey
Hamm Reno Group
- Provides high levels of performance and reliability, offering a solid platform for SAP HANA
- Supports real-time sales and inventory analytics, enabling Hamm Reno Group to react fast to changing customer and industry demands
- Enables IT staff to deploy new SAP HANA systems rapidly, boosting business agility
- Potential savings of EUR 20,000 in hardware costs when provisioning new SAP HANA systems on existing infrastructure
Industry
Consumer Packaged Goods
Location
Germany
Heritage Foods Ltd.
- Cut 50 percent from IT capital and operational costs by embracing Linux
- Gained a reliable, high-performance, easy-to-manage platform for SAP ERP
- Enabled high availability at low cost, with near-zero RPO
- Boosted performance, cutting runtime for SAP jobs by up to 93 percent
Industry
Retail/Wholesale
Location
India
Hero MEA
- 25% increase in company-wide efficiency reduces administrative burden
- User-friendly solution supports diverse IT infrastructure
- Achieves flexibility to adopt new, more efficient technologies
Industry
Food and Beverage
Location
Egypt
Hillarys
- Accelerates CRM system, enhancing customer experience with reduced call times and better first-call resolution
- Cuts the time spent running the overnight data upload by more than 50 percent, enabling timely reports
- Delivers superior levels of robustness and reliability, ensuring that the business continues running smoothly
Industry
Retail/Wholesale
Location
United Kingdom
HKU
- Removed barriers to storage scalability, supporting growing data and student numbers
- Eliminated downtime associated with maintenance, raising user productivity
- Freed up funds by reducing total cost of ownership for storage
Industry
Education
Location
Netherlands
Hostnordic
- Expanded product offerings by 20 percent without the need for additional personnel
- Ensures high-quality support by enabling teams to continue working with familiar tools
- Reduced the cost of deployment through tight integration with existing systems
Products
Industry
Managed Services
Location
Denmark
ICU IT Services
- Sets ICU IT Services apart as the first company in the Benelux to go live with LinuxONE
- Cuts complexity, management effort and software costs with the ability to support hundreds of virtual Linux servers on a single system
- Will help ICU IT Services broaden its service portfolio to grow market share and revenues
Industry
Computer Services
Location
Netherlands
Imperial Health Sciences
- Boosts SAP application performance by 40%, improving service quality
- Reduces total cost of ownership for IT systems by 90%
- Ensures high availability for business-critical systems in the healthcare supply chain
Products
Industry
Distribution
Location
South Africa
Implema
- Successfully migrated ten customers to SAP HANA in time and within budget
- Optimized solution for SAP software ensures reliability and performance without manual tuning
- Enables more cost-efficient operations of SAP applications than other Linux distributions
Industry
Computer Services
Location
Sweden
INFONAVIT
- Saved US$3 million in hardware costs and US$1.5 million in software licensing
- Reduced projected implementation costs by more than 50 percent
- Increased flexibility, security and reliability of IT infrastructure
Products
Industry
Government
Location
Mexico
Infonet Nederland B.V.
- Cut IT operational costs by 20%
- Reduced administration workload by 30%
- Consolidated physical server landscape by 75%
Products
Industry
High-Tech
Location
Netherlands
Informatics Innovation Center
- Boosted acceptance of mainframe platform among students
- Increased efficiency with modern management and configuration tools
- Provided compatibility with many state-of- the-art software packages
Industry
Education
Location
Germany
Inovelan
- Accelerated build phase for new software appliances
- Cut deployment time and cost in half
- Enabled greater focus on core service-provision tasks
Industry
Computer Services
Location
France
INSERM
- Standardized on a smaller number of Linux distributions for reduced TCO
- Ensured continuing high levels of availability and performance
- Gained new clarity and reduced time to patch servers
Industry
Government
Location
France
IRIS
- Gained low-cost, enterprise-class mass-storage capabilities
- Ensured non-disruptive scalability for mission-critical client environments
- Reused existing commodity hardware to keep costs low
Industry
Professional Business Services
Location
Belgium
IRIS
- Well placed to give necessary support for SAP
- Able to provide a stable platform for high-performance computing
- Enabled to provide enterprise solutions end-to-end
Industry
Other
Location
Belgium
Irish Centre for High-End Computing
- Boosted stability, performance and computational power
- Enabled users to perform more complex and demanding research and development activities
- Contributed to optimal price-performance through small OS footprint
Industry
Government
Location
Ireland
iSphere Technologies
- Offers rapid, cost-effective scalability as the business grows
- Delivers built-in high-availability features to protect mission-critical client data
- Enables straightforward management of virtual and physical resources via a single pane of glass
Industry
Computer Services
Location
South Africa
Jiangsu Province Rural Credit Co-operative Union
- Consolidated thousands of computers, reducing hardware needs by 90%
- Reduced hardware and software licensing costs by 60%
- Simplified maintenance by centralising IT infrastructure in fewer data centres
Products
Industry
Banking and Finance
Location
China
KEONICS
- Guarantees 100% uptime for clients’ mission-critical applications
- Cuts maintenance costs by 50%
- Delivers the benefits of cloud, with the security of a mainframe
- Ongoing partnership with SUSE and IBM helps promote the new service
Industry
Computer Services
Location
India
Kiabi
- Doubled performance of certain Oracle databases versus AIX
- Decreased TCO of IT for logistics by 30 percent
- Cut time-to-market for new services from weeks to hours
Industry
Retail/Wholesale
Location
France
Kongsberg Spacetec
- Helps the company meet customer demand for exceptional stability and performance
- Boosts efficiency by reducing support costs and effort
- Reduces development time for new systems, shortening time to market
Products
Industry
Research and Development
Location
Norway
Leibniz Supercomputing Centre
- Boosted overall performance by a factor of 50, making SuperMUC the fastest supercomputer in Europe and the fourth fastest worldwide when it went into production
- Simplified system configuration with leading automation tools such as AutoYaST
- Improved energy efficiency with advanced power saving features, providing 20 times more performance per watt than the previous environment
- Enables smooth migration from Itanium 2 to x86 processor architecture
Industry
Research
Location
Germany
Leiden University
- Increased standardization of IT landscape, reducing costs
- Reduced hardware costs by adopting open technology
- Gained a stable, cost-efficient and flexible platform for SAP
Industry
Education
Location
Netherlands
Lenovo
- Cuts Linux administrator workload by 50%, saving months of work each year
- Enables Lenovo to effortlessly manage nearly 1,000 instances of Linux
- Accelerates detection and elimination of security loopholes
Industry
Software
Location
China
Lot Polish Airlines
- Cut annual OS subscription fees by 50 percent
- Simplified management, releasing IT personnel to focus on value-add tasks
- Reduced long-term TCO by an estimated 30 percent
Industry
Aviation
Location
Poland
Lulu Group
- Cut the cost of growth by 20 percent by migrating from proprietary OS and hardware
- Improved availability, security and performance while reducing costs
- Gained a high-performance platform for business analytics
Industry
Retail/Wholesale
Location
United Arab Emirates
Macau Government Portal for Civil Servants
- Gained stable, responsive and flexible platform for portal services
- Diverted expenditure from software licensing into staff training
- Increased efficiency and speed of access to information
Industry
Government
Location
China
Mahindra Retail
- Provided low-cost, high-availability platform for SAP ERP
- Enabled enterprise-class solution on commodity hardware
- Achieved high availability for mission-critical workloads
Products
Industry
Retail/Wholesale
Location
India
Mainzer Volksbank eG
- Saves EUR 100,000 a year in software licensing and maintenance costs
- Ensures 99.999% system availability, supporting smooth operations
- Provides a super-stable, cost-efficient alternative to the mainframe
Industry
Banking and Finance
Location
Germany
Malavix informatique inc.
- Delivers a low-cost, high-value Linux-based SAP HANA monitoring system
- Monitors multiple hardware platforms and databases with no maintenance
- Easily migrates from a Raspberry Pi to an x86-64 system for higher scalability
Industry
Consulting
Location
Canada
Marist College
- Reduced time to deploy new workloads
- Supported users with a third of the staff needed on alternative platforms
- Provided services to other schools with no additional resources
Industry
Education
Location
United States
MBV Systèmes d’Information
- Enabled clients to deploy new SAP HANA systems rapidly
- Provided extremely high availability and performance
- Supported large databases and delivered real-time reporting
Industry
Computer Services
Location
France
Miami-Dade County
- Gained agility to quickly provide new services as needed
- Maximised IT staff efficiency; managing the z/Linux infrastructure with less than one FTE
- Ensured continuous availability for business critical applications
Industry
Government
Location
United States
Micro Silicon Electronics Corporation
- Reduced software licensing costs by 70 percent
- Reduced the total number of servers by 20 percent
- Cut hardware costs by 40 percent
- Reduced IT workload by 60 percent through increased stability and simplified maintenance
Products
Industry
Other
Location
Taiwan, Republic of China
Nakilat
- Reduced IT costs by 50 percent
- Boosted employee productivity by 30 percent
- Cut the time spent on administration by 40 percent
Products
Industry
Energy/Gas
Location
Qatar
National Foods Limited
- Improved security for business-critical ERP systems
- Reduced workload for IT administrators by 50%
- Gained a single point of contact for SAP and Linux support
Industry
Manufacturing
Location
Pakistan
National Library of South Africa
- Avoided high initial and ongoing costs
- Gained a more stable and secure system
Products
Industry
Government
Location
South Africa
Neusoft Wuhan
- Increased performance of Oracle databases and applications by 30 to 50 percent
- Reduced software licensing and support costs by 50 percent
- Minimized downtime and maintenance workload, improving operational efficiency by 10 to 15 percent
Industry
Health Care
Location
China
The New South Wales Fire Brigades
- Reduced hardware costs by migrating to virtualised Linux servers
- Enabled greater flexibility and speed of response to new requirements
- Improved the ease and speed of IT disaster recovery
Industry
Government
Location
Australia
NGA Human Resources
- Standardized on a single platform for enterprise computing
- Ensures exceptionally high availability and security for outsourced clients
- Enables increased focus on new services, through reduced OS administration
Products
Industry
Business Services
Location
Belgium
NIIT Technologies Ltd.
- Slashed client deployment times from up to six weeks to just four hours
- 100% availability and no unplanned downtime ensure high-quality client services
- Cut administration by 30%, enabling staff to focus on value-added tasks
- Reduced cost of ownership by almost 50%
Industry
Computer Services
Location
India
Nimble Group
- Supported rapid business growth with a highly scalable telephony solution
- Deployed advanced clustering technologies to maximize availability
- Used open source software to achieve cost savings of 75 percent versus comparable proprietary solutions
Industry
Banking and Finance
Location
South Africa
NWK
- Improves processing speeds and reduces database backup window by more than
- Offers strong reliability for key financial applications and business systems
- Supports a more open and flexible infrastructure model
Industry
Agriculture
Location
South Africa
Office Depot
- Simplified IT environment by implementing an open platform solution
- Reduced hardware costs and total cost of ownership
- Achieved 100% ROI on Linux investment in first year
Products
Industry
Retail/Wholesale
Location
United States
ONGC Tripura Power Company (OTPC)
- Achieved rapid deployment of stable SAP ERP environment
- Cut TCO by up to 70 percent versus UNIX-based solution
- Reduced software costs by up to 30 percent versus Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Gained access to integrated, single-source support from SUSE for full SAP ERP stack
Industry
Energy/Gas
Location
India
Open University, UK
- Easy-to-follow image-building process
- Simplified deployment of software images
- Easy-to-learn for students of all levels
Products
Industry
Education
Location
United Kingdom
Orbis Oy
- Reduced software support and licensing costs
- Enabled rapid upgrade to latest version of SAP
- Improved flexibility and speed of disaster recovery
Industry
Manufacturing
Location
Finland
Orchard Park Police Department
- Maintains network performance of 400-500 IOPS
- Supports body cameras and critical surveillance tools
- Provides the ability to retain video data for legal purposes
Products
Industry
Government
Location
United States
ORIX
- Upgraded more than 40 servers rapidly and non-disruptively
- Ensured ongoing support and high-frequency patching for critical systems
- Expected to save up to six hours of server management each month
- Extended protection against estimated A$100,000 cost of outages
Products
Industry
Financial Services
Location
Australia
oXya
- Created a single repository of software packages for each client, cutting administration
- Standardized each client’s OS landscape, supporting faster updates
- Accelerated the deployment of security patches, protecting client systems
Industry
Other
Location
France
oXya
- Increased availability for hosted SAP environments
- Decreased costs for operating system licenses and support
- Delivered TCO savings of up to 80 percent
Industry
High-Tech
Location
France
Pacific Drilling
- A complete, fully integrated solution stack
- Resilience, including disaster recovery
- Lower TCO by half with twice the HANA capacity
Industry
Energy/Gas
Location
United States
Pacific Textiles Ltd
- Increases scalability, facilitating the company’s migration to SAP ERP
- Provides a highly available platform for mission-critical ERP applications
- Frees the company from the limitations of proprietary IT platforms
Industry
Manufacturing
Location
Hong Kong
PCMS Group plc
- Enables constant availability for point-of-sale (POS) systems
- Drives cost-efficiencies with automated management of the POS landscape
- Reduces manual effort with preconfigured, prepackaged software libraries
Industry
Computer Services
Location
United Kingdom
Pearl Global Industries
- Cuts the time taken to produce key reports from 45 to 5 minutes, helping to drive quicker executive decisions even during busy accounting periods.
- Elevates performance levels by 20% and ensures consistent uptime
- Automates the task of calibrating system configurations, giving staff more time to dedicate to value-add activities
- Helps IT staff deliver more reliable, better tested solutions by providing them with the flexibility to easily create and manage testing environments
Industry
Manufacturing
Location
India
Peerless Clothing
- Deployed SAP applications on Linux platform, saving at least US$700,000 compared to the cost of a UNIX-based solution
- Reduced hardware by 90 percent
- Reduced desktop imaging time by 90 percent
Products
Industry
Manufacturing
Location
Canada
Peev Consulting
- 90% total cost of ownership saving for customers
- 40% increase in performance for customers
Industry
Managed Services
Location
South Africa
PetroChina Company Ltd.
- Enables business growth and innovation by scaling seamlessly
- Boosts efficiency, through reduced infrastructure costs
- Eliminates risk of vendor lock-in, enhancing flexibility
Industry
Manufacturing
Location
China
Petronash
- Cuts reporting times by 99.9%
- Enables quicker, better-informed financial decisions
- Drives efficient business processes
- Builds redundancy for business-critical applications
Industry
Energy/Gas
Location
United Arab Emirates
Pfortner
- Cut software development time by 60%
- Simplified and accelerated training process for new developers
- Achieved competitive advantage through faster time-to-market
Products
Industry
High-Tech
Location
South Africa
Phact
- Keeps IT costs low through use of software-defined storage on commodity servers and disk drives
- Extreme scalability allows Phact to seamlessly keep pace as data volumes grow
- Reduces administrative effort and expense with intuitive management tools and self-healing, self-managing storage
- Accelerates response to business demands with the ability to rapidly optimize or add storage as needed
Products
Industry
Computer Services
Location
Netherlands
pharm-analyt
- Accelerated database archiving from two hours to 30 minutes, even as data volumes doubled
- Cut overall server costs by more than 50 percent
- Enabled separation of IT services at no additional cost
Products
Industry
Research and Development
Location
Austria
Pi DATACENTERS PVTLTD
- Provides stable foundation for innovative cloud service provider
- Enables price flexibility depending on levels of use
- Reduces administrative burden while boosting system agility
Industry
High-Tech
Location
India
Pi DATACENTERS
- Accelerates time-to-market for cloud services
- Reduces time spent on maintenance and support
- Provides a cost-effective platform, with savings passed on to clients
Industry
Computer Services
Location
India
Pick n Pay
- Provided centralised, automated management of an extensive POS estate, reducing time spent on maintenance and support, and improving control of business systems
- Enabled an enhanced lifecycle management of entire infrastructure, with improved overview of configuration, software versions and status of POS devices at all retail locations
- Improved system resilience: in the event of network problems, stores can operate business- critical systems independently of branch or administrative servers
Industry
Retail/Wholesale
Location
South Africa
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
- Implemented largest cache-coherent shared-memory system in the world
- Delivered outstanding performance for over 1300 researchers working on 373 projects
- Operated without a security incident while providing open access to systems
Industry
Research and Development
Location
United States
Pneuhage
- Reduced licensing costs and improved compatibility
- Supported high-availability strategy by minimizing downtime
- Facilitated automation with powerful scripting environment
Products
Industry
Retail/Wholesale
Location
Germany
ProtoSoft
- Capable to quickly, securely and efficiently manage and administer various Linux distributions with the same tool
- Significant reduction in IT costs for customers
- Customers are provided with greater security and stability in their Linux infrastructure
Products
Industry
Retail/Wholesale
Location
Germany
Prvni novinova spolecnost a.s.
- Cuts the total cost of the SAP ERP landscape by 64 percent over five years
- Increases SAP ERP performance by approximately 30 percent
- Reduces OS administration workload by 50 percent
- Delivers increased flexibility and manageability
Industry
Retail/Wholesale
Location
Czech Republic
Publiacqua
- Drives 99.9%+ availability of core-business applications
- Increases stability, reliability, and performance of mission-critical SAP landscape
- Fosters innovation by delivering digital, mobile and self-service capabilities
Industry
Utility
Location
Italy
Rackspace
- SUSE was willing to take on the challenge that Rackspace presented to them.
- Because SUSE Manager can provide patch management for multiple Linux distributions, it reduces the number of different patch management systems Rackspace needs to deploy to serve its customers—
Industry
High-Tech
Location
United States
Robert Bosch Car Multimedia GmbH
- Reduced IT expenditure thanks to lower subscription and maintenance costs
- Improved system reliability, supporting smooth operations 24/7
- Ensured rapid response to security threats with excellent patch availability
Products
Industry
Automotive
Location
Germany
Roshdy Pharmacies
- Provides stable foundation to support rapid business expansion
- Offers high security, protecting healthcare data and gaining customer trust
- Delivers 100% uptime, enabling the business to serve customers 24/7
Industry
Health Care
Location
Egypt
Rusan Pharma
- Offers 40 percent lower costs compared to alternative platforms
- Provides excellent reliability for business-critical systems, with no unplanned downtime in 2.5 years
- Enabled business growth through conformity with global compliance standards
Industry
Health Care
Location
India
S2 Inc., Ltd.
- Reduced cloud infrastructure deployment time—from over one year to just three months
- Integrates the services of a variety of vendors to provide the optimum system for S2’s business and its customers
- Provides excellent continuous operation and stability
Products
Industry
Computer Services
Location
Japan
SACO
- Zero downtime since the solution was implemented
- Staff can focus on value-added tasks instead of patches and upgrades
- Provides a stable foundation for reliable processes and future business expansion
Industry
Retail/Wholesale
Location
Saudi Arabia
SAGAFLOR AG
- Delivers a fast, scalable platform that is easy to manage
- 40 percent faster deployment of new SAP systems
- Provides a reliable foundation for SAP HANA to help business users optimize offerings based on products, margins and revenues analytics
Industry
Retail/Wholesale
Location
Germany
santalucia
- Cut operating systems costs
- Boosted productivity of the IT department
- Eliminated inefficiencies to support business growth
Products
Industry
Insurance
Location
Spain
SAP Community Network
- Provided an online collaboration hub that can support 10,000 concurrent users
- Reduced per-user infrastructure costs
- Increased reliability and eliminated unplanned outages
Industry
High-Tech
Location
United States
SAP SE
- Achieved 99.999% system availability
- Reduced total costs of ownership and optimized licensing
- Streamlined cloud operations and enabled three-figure growth
Industry
Computer Services
Location
Germany
Sereno Clouds
- Provides a cost-effective private cloud platform, enabling Sereno Clouds to pass on savings to clients
- Accelerates time-to-market for private cloud services, helping Sereno Clouds capitalize on demand
- Automates many routine provisioning tasks, freeing IT staff to focus on value-add activities
Industry
Computer Services
Location
Hong Kong
SIEN
- Runs analytics jobs up to 97 percent faster, enabling deeper analysis to help government decision-makers contain costs
- Delivers dependable availability, ensuring vital public-facing services are live 24/7
- Protects mission-critical data and facilitates effective recovery in the event of unplanned downtime
Industry
Government
Location
Switzerland
Sesame Workshop
- Reduced inventory administration time by 70%
- Moved to an open web infrastructure that costs 85% less than a proprietary solution
- Consolidated web servers by 80% with Xen virtualization
- Reduced hardware costs by 30%
Products
Industry
Entertainment
Location
United States
Shenzhen Development Bank
- Achieved a five-to-one consolidation ratio of physical servers to virtual servers
- Reduced energy consumption in the data centre by 20% to 30%
- Improved stability and availability of services
Products
Industry
Banking and Finance
Location
China
SICOOB
- Saves USD 2.5 million a year thanks to a huge increase in available processing power
- Accommodates a 50 percent increase in business volumes with 40 percent fewer mainframe cores
- Enables faster, easier system management with built-in configuration tools
Industry
Banking and Finance
Location
Brazil
Smartodds
- Cuts operating costs while increasing flexibility and resource utilization
- Increases reliability of mission-critical services with fully automated, declarative container management
- Accelerates time-to-market for new insights and features, helping Smartodds stay ahead of competitors
- Offers enterprise-class support to minimize risk during migration and ongoing operations
Industry
Entertainment
Location
United Kingdom
SNS Bank
- Reduced operating costs for Web applications
- Enabled rapid deployment of new servers
- Increased security and availability of Web servers
Products
Industry
Banking and Finance
Location
Netherlands
Sokołów S.A.
- Enhanced performance, with some reports available tens of times faster
- Reduced database size by 74 percent, removing barriers to growth
- Slashed operational and maintenance costs
- Lowered risk through open technology and improved access to IT support
Industry
Food
Location
Poland
Sony Italia
- Consolidated 12 physical servers to virtual machines running on two physical servers
- Saved an estimated 60% on server acquisition costs
- Reduced TCO by cutting power and cooling requirements
Industry
Other
Location
Italy
Southern Petrochemical Industries Corporation
- Cuts time taken to produce reports by 99.99%
- Increases IT performance by more than 2x
- Enables predicted power savings of 25%
Industry
Chemicals
Location
India
Sparda-Datenverarbeitung eG
- Cut software costs by approximately 50 percent
- Increased administration efficiency; a team of three can manage 120 virtual environments
- Improved business continuity by providing automated failover within seconds
Industry
Banking and Finance
Location
Germany
St Mary MacKillop College
- Eliminated downtime during normal working hours through automated patching and updates
- Saved an estimated seven man-hours per month in patching servers
- Improved security through accurate application of pre-tested patches
- Achieved increase in network bandwidth and availability from hosting in Amazon cloud
Products
Industry
Education
Location
Australia
Standard Media Group
- Offered lower costs compared to alternative platforms
- Enhanced the security around business-critical systems
- Enabled Standard Media to run unlimited virtualized machines at no extra cost
- Reduced time to apply patches by 80 percent
Industry
Other
Location
Kenya
STATISTICS AUSTRIA (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich)
- Reduces complexity with a standard operating system across hardware architectures
- Enables STATISTICS AUSTRIA to flexibly move applications between platforms, ensuring they always run smoothly
- Cuts time spent on IT management and maintenance
- Supports open source strategy
Industry
Government
Location
Austria
STIA Holzindustrie GmbH
- Achieved 99.9% availability for some applications
- Reduced time to patch systems from around 20 hours to 10 hours per month while helping to improve security
- Reduced time spent on system administration, cutting costs by 10%
Industry
Manufacturing
Location
Austria
Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland
- Reduced time taken to exchange data between organizations and information systems by 60 percent
- Enabled secure sharing of patient and medical data between SEIN and other healthcare institutions
- Eliminated inaccessible data silos, enabling easier information sharing
Products
Industry
Health Care
Location
Netherlands
SVA
- Able to help clients turn digital transformation into an opportunity
- Enabled to design and implement stable and resilient landscape for their customers
- Have the ideal solution for high availability SAP HANA database servers
Industry
Retail/Wholesale
Location
Germany
SVHW
- Increased flexibility and reduced costs for Oracle databases
- Cut planned downtime to a minimum with live patching capability
- Saved at least two man-days per month in administration alone
- Reduced operational costs through platform standardization and Windows-Linux interoperability
Industry
Government
Location
Netherlands
Swinburne University of Technology
- Offers a powerful, flexible storage platform to support cutting-edge scientific research
- Delivers on-premises storage at approximately half the cost of an equivalent public cloud service
- Extreme scalability makes it easy for Swinburne to keep pace with rising volumes of research data
Products
Industry
Education
Location
Australia
Symmetry
- Achieved a Net Promoter Score of 57
- Implemented an OS that helps deliver guaranteed performance
- Achieved high availability with high quality of service
Industry
Other
Location
United States
Synjones
- Enabled Synjones to complete new implementations 50 percent faster
- Increased total availability, with no unplanned downtime in 18 months of operation
- Reduced software licensing costs by 25 percent
Products
Industry
High-Tech
Location
China
T-Systems
- Able to fulfill promise of zero downtime
- Offering highly secure and reliable services
Industry
Communications
Location
Germany
TEAMWORK
- Have access to the best clustering solution on the market today
- Manage lifecycle effectively
- Receive effective and straightforward support
Industry
Consulting
Location
France
Teplaren Kosice a. s.
- Cut support and hardware costs by 50%, offering better return on IT spend
- Improved employee productivity
- Cut OS administration by 20% and install times from one day to 15 minutes
- Enhanced IT performance, reducing SAP transaction times by 30%
Products
Industry
Utility
Location
Slovakia
Teradata
- Process big data without any issues— securely, reliably, and fast.
- Provide faster, better service and lower costs.
Products
Industry
High-Tech
Location
United States
The New South Wales Fire Brigades
- Reduced hardware costs by migrating to virtualized Linux servers
- Enabled greater flexibility and speed of response to new requirements
- Improved the ease and speed of IT disaster recovery
Industry
Government
Location
Australia
Tieto Czech s.r.o.
- Enabled to manage global OS level servers
- Provide a stable platform for customers
- Customers have a first-class system for SAP
Industry
Consulting
Location
Czech Republic
Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Supports peak performance of 5.7 petaflops (PFlops), the best of any cluster-type supercomputer in Japan
- Provides interconnectivity with consumer IT equipment as well as support for high-end environments
- Helped Tsubame become one of the world’s top-ranked large-scale cluster-type supercomputers
- Offers excellent management capabilities
Industry
Research
Location
Japan
Total
- Raised computational performance, enabling faster simulations
- Enabled 10-times increase in computing capacity
- Optimized price-performance, keeping TCO as low as possible
Industry
Agriculture and Mining
Location
France
Turners & Growers Ltd
- 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
Products
Industry
Agriculture and Mining
Location
New Zealand
TVS Infotech
- Cuts maintenance and licensing costs by 30 percent
- Redirects time and resources to enhance customer service quality
- Enables simple, low-cost scalability and supports business growth
Industry
Computer Services
Location
India
Tymlez Software & Consultancy B.V.
- Can ensure that all components are available at all times
- Able to monitor load of containers in the cluster in real-time
- Easily add more physical or virtual nodes to the cluster
Products
Industry
Consulting
Location
Germany
Tymlez
- 75 percent faster deployment of production-ready Kubernetes clusters, cutting time to market and time to value compared to a typical deployment of upstream Kubernetes
- Enables seamless and cost-efficient scaling with low resource requirements to improve resiliency and meet spikes in demand while keeping operating costs low
- Facilitates adoption of cutting-edge blockchain technology by enterprises in days instead of months, allowing them to streamline business processes and boosting agility
- Helps to reach new customers by enabling enterprises to benefit from blockchain solutions in a private cloud deployment that protects sensitive customer data and eases compliance with strict government regulations
Products
Industry
Computer Services
Location
Netherlands
Tyro Payments
- Initial reduction of 50 percent in annual subscription cost
- Enabled phased OS migration, minimizing impact on staff resources
- Maintained high availability throughout significant infrastructure expansion
- Facilitated adoption of DevOps practices, for shorter time to market
Industry
Banking and Finance
Location
Australia
UCS Solutions
- Increased performance for some analyses by up to 600 percent
- Accelerated one set of complex SAP processes from 14 hours to 7
- Reduced storage requirements by 90 percent
Industry
Computer Services
Location
South Africa
Industry
Communications
Location
United States
Unisys
- Provide the ability to add virtual machines as necessary to solve complex problems in real time
- Extraordinary scalability for big data solutions
- Can host SUSE Linux Enterprise and migrated Unix application workloads on the same platform and provision them across all delivery models
Industry
High-Tech
Location
United States
United Spirits Limited
- 83% reduction in time taken to process key report, from six hours to one
- Enables company to meet compliance demands thanks to accelerated reporting
- Enhances business decision-making through faster information delivery
Industry
Consumer Packaged Goods
Location
India
Universal Commodity Exchange (UCX)
- Provided a high-performance, high-availability platform for SAP ERP
- Enabled near-real-time trade settlement and financial clearing
Products
Industry
Banking and Finance
Location
India
University Hospital Essen
- Supports soaring data volumes at 70 to 80 percent lower expenditure
- Provides a cost-effective, protected private cloud storage and file sharing environment for researchers and medical staff
- Grants the hospital flexibility to deploy storage resources rapidly as needed
Industry
Health Care
Location
Germany
University of Arkansas
- Managed entire mainframe environment with just 1.5 FTEs
- Delivered cloud-based services to other universities
- Delivered outstanding performance for compute-intensive SAP applications
Industry
Education
Location
United States
University of Bari
- Created an easily manageable platform for cloud computing
- Simplified the creation of test and development environments within the University's computer science labs
- Enabled cost-effective development of solutions for small businesses and local communities
Industry
Education
Location
Italy
University of Bologna
- Gained cost-effective, high-performance platform for Oracle
- Reduced paper-based administration by implementing web-based applications
- Enabled online enrollment and payment for courses
Products
Industry
Education
Location
Italy
University of Haifa
- Reduces licensing costs and decreases budget pressures on the IT department
- Improves decision-making by paving the way for lightning-fast reporting on SAP HANA
- Cuts manual SAP ERP administration work and frees time for value-added initiatives
Industry
Education
Location
Israel
University of Valencia
- 40 percent cost savings enable university to allocate more funding to value-add projects
- Three times faster than traditional storage, for enhanced service delivery
- Helps attract more students and maintain leadership in Spain and abroad
Products
Industry
Education
Location
Spain
Vectus Industries
- Improved overall operating efficiency by 60 percent
- Lifted availability to almost “five nines” from 24 hours of downtime a month previously
- Reduced manual data entry and enabled instant billing and invoices
- Single source of truth provides transparent view across business
Industry
Manufacturing
Location
India
Verspieren
- Provides a reliable platform for Verspieren's business-critical applications
- Offers low operational costs and high performance
- Helps IT staff focus on more productive activities
Industry
Insurance
Location
France
Vienna Hospital Association
- Accelerated maintenance tasks by 50 percent, shortening scheduled downtime
- Facilitates prioritization of system maintenance and ensures accurate track record and consistent updates across a large number of servers
- Reduced IT costs while securing reliability and high performance for SAP applications
Industry
Health Care
Location
Austria
Viollier
- Slashed time to complete major patch updates by 84 percent
- Tightened security through regimented patch management
- Eased the burden of system administration
Products
Industry
Health Care
Location
Switzerland
Vitec Autodata AS Norge
- Reduced software maintenance costs by running new mainframe workloads on Linux
- Enabled faster, less costly response to customer demands for new functionality
- Created a stable, agile environment for serving multiple customers securely
Industry
Automotive
Location
Norway
Vonpar
- 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%
Industry
Food and Beverage
Location
Brazil
Western & Southern Financial Group
- Implemented Linux servers in each branch office for 25% of the cost of a proprietary caching solution
- Increased caching speed in branch offices by 50%
- Reduced software costs with open source applications
Products
Industry
Banking and Finance
Location
United States
WIEN-TICKET
- Reliable and prompt support
- Platform that grows with future requirements
- 100-percent uptime for ticketing application
Industry
Entertainment
Location
Austria
WIIT
- Delivers fully supported, easy-to-use, and high-performing platform
- Decreases the number of incidents on customer systems
- Improves customer experience, strengthening loyalty
Industry
Computer Services
Location
Italy
Wolters Kluwer Italia
- Reduced hardware and software costs by migrating from a proprietary solution to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
- Consolidated infrastructure with virtualization
- Accelerated provisioning of new Linux servers for SAP applications
Products
Industry
Publishing
Location
Italy
Wright Flood
- Reduced update time from hours to minutes
- Decreased compliance auditing time from a day to one half hour
- Enhanced security and compliance by controlling updates
Products
Industry
Insurance
Location
United States
Yildiz Technical University
- Made mainframe more accessible for students
- Offered a stable teaching and administrative environment
- Equipped students with marketable skills for their future careers
- Reduced maintenance burden by up to a factor of 100
Industry
Education
Location
Turkey
ZF Friedrichshafen AG
- Slashes time to provision virtual data center infrastructure from days to minutes.
- Unlocks massive time savings for IT thanks to self-service capabilities and automated provisioning.
- Extends a static on-premise infrastructure for engineering simulations with the capability of dynamic resource allocation in the data centers to handle workload peaks.
Products
Industry
Automotive
Location
Germany
Zoppas Industries
- Meets business requirements faster and more efficiently
- Helps win new clients through enhanced, more accurate service delivery
- Supports future international expansion by offering multi-lingual capabilities
Industry
Manufacturing
Location
Italy
