SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension

Lower Infrastructure Costs

In today's highly competitive environment, any performance gains will be weighed against the incremental investments necessary to achieve those gains. SUSE® Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension allows firms to improve application performance, while simultaneously reducing infrastructure costs.

Because applications using SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension are more reliable and predictable, even under heavy system loads, over-provisioned systems can now safely be run hotter, or at higher average utilization, effectively increasing capacity, or alternatively, lowering hardware costs on a per service basis. Many trading and market data servers are currently run at 5 to 20% capacity, in order to accommodate trading volumes that can spike up to 15 times their daily average during the course of a day. By using the Real Time Extension, these same systems can be provisioned at 10 to 40% average utilization, allowing firms to meet the same quality of service targets and service level agreements, but with half the hardware.

Furthermore, enterprises can avoid vendor lock in and protect their current investments by implementing SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension, an open source add-on to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Firms benefit from Novell's integration of the open source community's latest real time technologies into its enterprise desktop to data center platform, and can choose to get support from a number of different vendors. By using the Real Time Extension, firms can redirect scarce resources to their core business operations, rather than maintain and support their own custom, low latency platform. Firms maximize flexibility and choice, and lower their total infrastructure costs by implementing open standards based real time technologies from Novell.