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Mission-Critical Computing
High performance IT services delivered with zero downtime. That's what you require in your mission-critical computing environment. And that's what SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 delivers.
SUSE® Linux Enterprise 11 strengthens your infrastructure with powerful yet cost-effective enterprise capabilities that make it easy to migrate from UNIX. A proven high-availability clustering solution ensures uptime for your mission-critical services. And because it's so affordable, you can extend the benefits of clustering to more workloads than ever. Real-time computing delivers guaranteed performance for time-sensitive workloads, providing competitive advantage in dynamic markets. Advanced Green IT capabilities decrease power consumption to keep your enterprise lean and efficient, while a new supportability infrastructure provides enhanced problem resolution.
Reliable performance is the bedrock of your mission-critical environment. Choose SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 for mission-critical solutions that keep your infrastructure reliable and resilient.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension provides an integrated suite of robust clustering technologies that enables you to eliminate single points of failure. Used with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, it helps you maintain business continuity, protect data integrity, and reduce unplanned downtime for your mission-critical Linux workloads. Included in this suite are OpenAIS for clustering messaging and membership, Pacemaker for scalable cluster resource management, and other enterprise-class components. The product also includes resource agents for a wide array of applications. In short, you get everything you need to continuously monitor and sustain the health of your physical and virtual resources—and do so more affordably than ever.
Freudenberg IT is a business division of the Freudenberg Group with more than US$8.2 billion in annual revenue. As a global SAP hosting partner, Freudenberg IT wanted to reduce the costs and complexities for mid-market companies that implement ERP systems. It selected SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for its mid-market hosting solution because of the Novell solution's proven performance in mission-critical deployments, enterprise-class global support, low total cost of ownership and the endorsement of SAP. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server has helped Freudenberg IT reduce server costs by nearly 70 percent and reduce time to market from weeks to hours. The availability of its SAP systems running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server matches that of its previous UNIX-based systems. And Freudenberg IT has lowered staffing costs because one administrator can now manage three times as many SAP systems as before.
"Because SAP systems are mission-critical, we have to provide high availability for our clients," said Richard Downham, Vice President of Managed Services at Freudenberg IT. "SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is an enterprise-class system that can support customers with 24x7 operations, while reducing the overall cost of a hosted solution. SAP's endorsement of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and collaboration with Novell gave us further confidence."