SUSE Appliance Toolkit

Making it easy to build and maintain appliances—for enterprises and ISVs.

SUSE Appliance Toolkit

Build appliances for physical, virtual and cloud environments today.

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Overview

What are software appliances?: Software appliances are virtual machines that have one task: serving a particular application. A software appliance is a preconfigured disk image that contains an application, middleware, database, and minimal operating system. Software appliances can be deployed directly on a server as a hard drive image. Alternatively, appliances can be packaged as a virtual machine to be loaded on a hypervisor. This subset of software appliances is typically called a virtual appliance. More +
What is SUSE Appliance Toolkit?: SUSE Appliance Toolkit is a collection of tools designed to make building, updating and configuring appliances fast and easy. You can securely build and deploy software appliances for physical, virtual or cloud environments in minutes instead of hours or days. And SUSE Appliance Toolkit will ensure that you maintain full control over your deployed software appliance. More +
What benefits will I gain from SUSE Appliance Toolkit?: SUSE Appliance Toolkit dramatically improves the efficiency of deploying and maintaining applications. You can quickly get started creating a robust, scalable product and know that the right elements are in place and working together. This reduces setup, support and maintenance costs. SUSE Appliance Toolkit accelerates time to value with greater management control and more software deployment features. More +
How do I get it?: For ISVs:
SUSE Appliance Toolkit is part of the SUSE Appliance Program. Learn more about the SUSE Appliance Program and how to get started. More +

For IT departments:
SUSE Appliance Toolkit is available for purchase. Contact a sales representative for more information. More +

ISV

Customize the OS for your application: SUSE Appliance Toolkit includes the award-winning SUSE Studio, which allows you to create a fully supported Linux configuration based on SUSE Linux Enterprise. SUSE Appliance Toolkit gives you everything you need to build a customized version of SUSE Linux Enterprise in a consistent, repeatable and compliant way. With this toolkit, you can easily build software appliances tailored for your customers' needs.

SUSE Appliance Toolkit is an essential part of the SUSE Appliance Program. More +
Simplify software deployments: Inefficient approaches to application deployment result in increased costs and may even increase overhead. But at the same time, you want to retain full control of your software development. SUSE Studio enables you to deploy and configure the operating system, middleware, and application in a single step. Once installed, the application needs only to be configured to the end customer's specific business. A unique Web interface allows you to test drive the software appliance before download.

The simplicity of SUSE Appliance Toolkit makes it easier to tap into new markets quickly and increase revenue. Take advantage of SUSE Appliance Toolkit and SUSE Appliance Program, and benefit from go-to-market opportunities. More +
Shorten your sales cycle and accelerate your time to market: SUSE Appliance Toolkit simplifies software deployment. As a result, you reduce the time it takes to complete software deployments to minutes, instead of hours and days. SUSE Appliance Toolkit also reduces the time and effort required to install and maintain software applications. In addition, software appliances make sales easier by simplifying customer demos, proofs of concept, and evaluations. Sales engagements will also be more predictable, less time consuming and more successful.

SUSE Appliance Toolkit and the SUSE Appliance Program help you shorten your sales cycles and give you more time to spend with your customers. More +
Lower support and maintenance costs: With preconfigured software appliances, you can maintain a single operating system and support a single set of software versions. It reduces troubleshooting costs, compliance issues and application outages related to software updates. SUSE Appliance Toolkit takes care of the whole software deployment and maintenance lifecycle, including a fully supported operating system. As a result, you'll gain agility, drive down support and maintenance costs, and enhance security.

SUSE Appliance Toolkit and the SUSE Appliance Program ensure that your costs stay low. More +
Deploy into new markets and grow revenue: With how easy it is to preconfigure and preinstall software appliances, and how flexibly different deployment scenarios can be adapted, you can spend less time developing custom applications for different platforms and more time selling into new markets. Plus, you can use SUSE Appliance Toolkit to develop .NET applications as software appliances.

Software appliances make it faster and easier for customers to try to buy software. Additionally, with the limited technical and sales training required for software appliances, new reseller and distribution channels are easier to establish.

The simplicity of the SUSE Appliance Program makes it easier to tap into new markets quickly. More +
Maintain control over deployed appliances easily and remotely: SUSE Appliance Toolkit provides tools to streamline the update and maintenance of software appliances. You control the delivery of updates, patches and rollbacks for your deployed software appliances. With the toolkit, you can reduce the time and effort required to install and maintain software applications. Plus, you can ensure that your customers have all your latest application versions, all necessary patches, and troubleshooting help when they need it. More +

IT Departments

Mass customize your Linux: SUSE Appliance Toolkit, with the award-winning SUSE Studio, allows you to "mass customize" your Linux operating system to fit your environment. With just a few mouse clicks and a couple of minutes, you can build a software appliance. And with an integrated Support Assessment module, you can ensure that your new appliance is fully supported. Creating software appliances has never been easier! More +
Easily build appliance to reduce your deployment costs and time: SUSE Appliance Toolkit enables enterprise developers to create appliance versions of in-house applications and software. By leveraging the appliance model, you can reduce IT costs and more efficiently allocate resources. You can quickly get started creating a robust, scalable product and know that the right elements are in place and working together. This reduces setup, support and maintenance costs. More +
Simplify application management and enhance security: Streamlined software solutions reduce installation and maintenance costs. With preconfigured software appliances, you maintain a single operating system and support a single set of software versions. It reduces troubleshooting costs, compliance issues and application outages related to software updates. SUSE Appliance Toolkit takes care of the whole software deployment and maintenance lifecycle, including a fully supported operating system. You'll gain agility, reduce support and maintenance costs, and enhance security. The result is a reliable, high quality and predictable software delivery process that saves you time and money. More +
Leverage your Linux investment: By creating customized versions of Linux with SUSE Appliance Toolkit, you can reduce the number of components you support and increase your application security.
Deploy .NET applications across platforms: There are limited opportunities to deploy in lower cost environments. By leveraging the Mono® plug-in from Novell, you can develop .NET applications and deploy them as appliances with SUSE Appliance Toolkit. More +