Quick comparisons and customer success stories show the benefits of migrating applications such as SAP to enterprise Linux.

1. Advantages of SLES
Over Windows

2. 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.

3. Where
SUSE Leads
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Linux in Automotive
10 of the largest global automobile mfgs.
are active SUSE customers
x10
Linux in Retail
7 out of 10 of the largest retailers in the
U.S. are active SUSE customers
7/10
Linux in Telecom
10 of the largest telecommunications
carriers rely on SUSE
x10
Linux in Pharma
7 out of 10 of the largest pharmaceutical
companies use SUSE Linux Enterprise
7/10
Linux in Aerospace
9 out of 10 of the largest aerospace
companies rely on SUSE
9/10
SAP on Linux
70% of all SAP applications running
on Linux run on SUSE
70%
Linux in HPC
Half of the world’s 20 largest super
computers run on SUSE
50%
Linux in Large Enterprise
Over 80% of the Fortune Global 50 are
active SUSE Customers
80%
Mainframe Linux
Over 15 years of mainframe Linux
market share leadership
15+
Linux in Manufacturing
7 out of 10 world’s largest manufacturers
use SUSE Linux Enterprise
7/10
Linux in Finance
4 out of 5 of the world’s largest
banks use SUSE Linux Enterprise
4/5

4. A Broad Ecosystem
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13,500+
Certified
Hardware
Interoperability
Part of company-wide mission
2500+
Certified
Products
8500+
Certified
Applications
3200
Solution
Providers
& System
Integrators
1800
Technology
Partners
600
Training
Partners
5000+
Partner
Ecosystem
members

5. How SUSE Adds Value
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• Enterprise-quality
innovation and service
• Affordable mission-critical
performance
• Open, flexible,
optimized for mixed IT
• Increased
Agility
• Reclaimed
Budget
• Reduced
Risk
Customer
Benefits• Enterprise-quality
innovation and service
• Affordable mission-critical
performance
• Open, flexible,
optimized for mixed IT

6. Comparisons
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7. 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 Clustering
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability
Extension, including load-balancer and using
OCFS2 mixed clustering between physical and
virtual
Failover, clustering and network load
balancing
Geo Clustering
Geo Clustering for SUSE Linux Enterprise High
Availability Extension, across virtual and
physical, with any distance worldwide
No geo clustering capability

8. Scalability
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Windows Server 2012 R2
CPUs
Supported
The latest Intel CPUs Same
Vertical
Scalability
8,192 logical CPUs and 64 TB RAM (verified),
16 Exabyte file system size
320 logical CPUs and 4TB memory
Networking 8G/16G FC adapters
10G/40G Ethernet adapters
iSCSI target (LIO) support Improved FCoE
Data Center Bridging (DCB)
OFED 1.5.4
8G FC adapter (Emullex)
10G Ethernet adapter
iSCSI compatible (2008/R2/2012)
DCB (2008/R2/2012)
OFED support
Virtual Machine
Capacity
Unlimited VM per host*, 4TB memory per VM
(KVM)
64VM per host, 512GB memory per VM (Xen)
64 VM per host, 1TB memory per VM
*unlimited (total number of virtual CPUs in all guests being no greater than 8 times the
number of CPU cores in the host) 8

9. 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.

10. Virtualization and Cloud
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Windows Server 2012 R2
As Virtual Guest Optimized on vSphere, Hyper-V and open
source hypervisors
Guest NUMA support, Share-nothing live
migration
As Virtual Host Xen and KVM hypervisor support, Linux
Containers (LXC), Docker (Tech Preview)
Hypervisor: Hyper-V
Hyper-V Network Virtualization
Private Cloud
Solution
Yes. With SUSE OpenStack Cloud, SUSE
Studio
and SUSE Manager
Windows Azure Pack
Public Cloud Available in AWS, Google, Azure and 50+
public clouds
Public Cloud Module with easy initialization
Similar
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11. Other Features
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Windows Server 2012 R2
Web Server Apache IIS
File Systems Btrfs, XFS, Ext-Family, Reiserfs, OCFS2* ReFS
Server Management
and Update
YaST, ZYpp, Snapper, etc. Core Server Management, Windows Server
Update Services (WSUS)
Scripting Language bash, tcsh, Perl, Python, Ruby PowerShell, C Shell (via SUA), Perl
Lifecycle 10 years of general support, three years of
extended support;
five optional modules with different lifecycles
Five years of mainstream support (until Jan
2018), 10 years of extended support (Jan
2023);
No modules concept.
*in SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension
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12. 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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13. Success Stories
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14. 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

15. 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.

16. Overview
Challenge Solution Results
+ Read Story+ Watch Video
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%.

17. Overview
Challenge Solution Results
+ Read Story
2013 / SLES / Manufacturing / Finland
Orbis Oy provides intelligent quality control, testing and measuring systems as well as advanced instrument
and component solutions for research and development, production, and after-sales needs of the
telecommunication and electronics industries.
Orbis Oy
• Wanted to reduce total cost of ownership
for its SAP environment which was running
on multiple physical severs with associated
high software licensing and support fees.
• As its global business grew, Orbis wanted
to take advantage of newer ERP
functionality, which necessitated a
migration to the latest release, SAP ERP
6.0 version of the SAP software.
• Headstart and Centilane proposed a
solution based on SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server with built-in Xen virtualisation
technology. By migrating from
Windows/Oracle to Linux* and the MaxDB
database from SAP, Headstart and
Centilane were able to generate significant
cost savings for Orbis in terms of SAP
software licensing and support fees.
• Reduced software support and licensing
costs.
• Enabled rapid upgrade to latest version of
SAP.
• Improved flexibility and speed of disaster
recovery.

18. Overview
Challenge Solution Results
+ Read Story
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%.

19. 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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