Get More Done with the Most Versatile Linux Platform
Supports 6,000+ ISV applications, runs on multiple hardware platforms and interoperates with Windows and UNIX.

This server OS supports thousands of applications in virtual and cloud environments as well as industry-standard hardware.

Designed to deliver essential data center services with commodity off-the-shelf IT resources, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the versatile Run mission-critical workloads reliably and securely

Linux platform that pleases both business users and IT managers. This Linux server OS supports thousands of third-party ISV applications—and enables them to run in physical, virtual and cloud environments.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server also interoperates with two other operating systems often used in today's data centers, Windows and UNIX. Optional extensions deliver advanced functionality. As a result, you can integrate SUSE Linux Enterprise Server seamlessly into mixed IT infrastructures, continue to run your existing applications and add new capabilities as your business needs change.

Runs Almost Every Application

Why do more than 13,000 businesses worldwide use SUSE Linux Enterprise Server? Our versatile Linux server OS supports more than 6,000 third-party ISV applications. That's more than double what Red Hat offers, and our list of supported software keeps growing.

Certified and supported software for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server includes everything from mission-critical databases, e-commerce applications and ERP systems, to e-mail, file and print servers and web servers. Today, 75 percent of all SAP applications for Linux run on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

Run Linux on Cost-effective Hardware

Are you under pressure to get more from your current systems and achieve enterprise-class performance and reliability—even from budget-friendly, industry-standard commodity hardware? We understand and designed SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to run on multiple platforms. Now you can match your workloads with the hardware best suited for the job so you can avoid expensive over-provisioning. Most leading hardware vendors support our Linux server OS, so you can save money by using your existing physical servers or new, low-cost commodity hardware.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server runs on these five processor architectures:

• x86 (32-bit)

• x86_64 (64-bit)

• Itanium (Itanium II or newer)

• IBM POWER

• IBM z/Architecture (64-bit)

With the release of Service Pack 1 (SP1), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server supports more than 500 additional processors, chipsets, storage systems and networking devices. Now you can get more utilization from the hardware you already own, including less costly x86 servers.

Supports Physical, Virtual and Cloud Environments

To get more from their existing resources and achieve greater business agility, organizations increasingly are moving workloads to virtual environments and the cloud. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the flexible operating platform for physical, virtual and cloud computing that's supported by today's leading technology vendors.

SUSE has partnered with both Microsoft and VMware to optimize SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on each company's hypervisor technology (Hyper-V and vSphere respectively). As a result, you can count on consistent performance and streamlined support when you use SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with Hyper-V or vSphere. Additionally, both Microsoft and VMware exclusively recommend SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to their customers who run Linux servers.

Looking for a powerful yet affordable way to virtualize workloads? Every subscription to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server includes commercial support for Xen and Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM). More and more enterprises are using these open source hypervisor technologies to create and deploy their virtual infrastructure.

Still debating whether to move workloads and services to the cloud? SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is no stranger to cloud computing. It includes tools for creating purpose-built operating system images along with cloud-ready workloads and appliances. In fact, well-known public cloud infrastructures, like Amazon EC2, offer SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on-demand.

Interoperates with Windows and UNIX

SUSE also offers modular extensions that supply advanced capabilities for supporting your infrastructure. And because these extensions are optional, you pay only for the functionality your business needs.

Extensions for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server include:

• SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension: This affordable, integrated suite of open source technologies enables you to deploy highly available physical and virtual Linux clusters. Used with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, it helps maintain business continuity, protect data integrity and reduce unplanned downtime.

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension: This Linux application server is the only one that can host native .NET applications. Mono runtime, libraries and tools deliver new cross-platform capabilities to your existing .NET environment. This lets you get more value from your existing .NET development resources and investments in Linux.

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension: This extension turns the general-purpose Linux operating system into a fully supported, real-time operating system. It reduces the latency of time-sensitive mission-critical applications while increasing their predictability and reliability.

Run mission-critical workloads reliably and securely

Offers the lowest downtime in its class. Takes advantage of hardware and software RAS and security.

Count on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to handle mission-critical workloads and protect your applications, systems and data.

Today, your organization demands more from its IT resources, and more systems and applications are considered mission critical. Web services, e-commerce sites and securities-trading applications are just as critical as your online data processing, database and ERP systems. For your IT team, the pressure to ensure mission-critical services are continuously available while keeping risk in check is greater than ever.

We have designed SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to process all types of workloads, especially the mission-critical, while also providing the highest availability in its class. It supports productivity and reduces risk by helping your business to access critical systems, applications, networks and data continuously and securely.

Additionally, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server comes with advanced security capabilities that help you protect your systems from attacks, malicious applications and viruses.

Delivering the Best Uptime in Its Class

The most fundamental measurement of reliability is downtime (both planned and unplanned). In a recent survey conducted by the Information Technology Intelligence Corporation, respondents reported SUSE Linux Enterprise Server exhibited on average 17.4 minutes of unplanned downtime per server per year. Compare this with 35.4 minutes for Oracle Solaris, 67.2 minutes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and 145.2 minutes for Windows Server 2008.

The same study found that the average time to patch a server (planned downtime) with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server was 15 minutes, versus 31 minutes for Solaris, 27 minutes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and 32 minutes for Windows Server 2008. By minimizing both planned and unplanned downtime with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, your business gains more access to the applications, systems and data it depends on to generate revenues and stay competitive.

Continuously Improving High Availability

For customers who require 99.999 percent reliability, we offer Linux clustering with SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension. This suite of open source technologies automates application failover and data recovery, and delivers all of the essential capabilities for the monitoring and messaging management of clustered resources. With SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, you can maintain business continuity, protect data integrity and virtually eliminate unplanned downtime for your mission-critical Linux workloads. Best of all, it's more affordable than any competing third-party solution.

SUSE is committed to continuously integrating more reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) capabilities into SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Swap over network file system (NFS) helps protect your systems against application restarts and costly downtime. With control groups, you can assign specific hardware resources to applications, processes and threads. Such precise control helps maximize system performance, especially for mission-critical applications.

In addition, the latest operating system update, Service Pack 1 (SP1), includes features that boost RAS capabilities even more. Support for RAID 6 and RAID 10 offers increased data redundancy, and enhanced MPIO hardware support expands multipath options.

Protecting Your Enterprise with Advanced Security

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is not only perfect for processing mission-critical workloads and delivering business services. It also protects your intellectual property–the lifeblood of your business–with advanced, built-in security capabilities.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ships with AppArmor, an effective and easy-to-use security system. AppArmor proactively protects the operating system and applications from external or internal threats–even zero-day attacks–by enforcing secure behavior and preventing unknown application flaws from being exploited.

 AppArmor security policies completely define what system resources individual applications can access, and with what privileges. Such oversight is critical today, as more people access your resources via the Internet and more workloads run in virtual environments and the cloud. AppArmor includes default policies so you can successfully deploy security policies for complex applications in just a few hours.

When it comes to enterprise Linux security, AppArmor is just the beginning. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server also provides a true firewall that protects your resources from internal and external attacks. This "stateful" firewall technology lets you separate networks and control which packets pass through any network interface.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server also supports the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) standard for authenticating common hardware devices. Our comprehensive, enterprise-class security capabilities include certificate creation and management, VPN, encryption, authentication, access control lists and intrusion detection.

Save time and money, now and in the future

Squeeze every cent from your existing hardware. Save even more with low-cost software licensing and powerful administration tools.

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USE Linux Enterprise Server is affordable and includes money-saving features and time-saving tools.

As your business grows, you acquire additional technologies to manage, which adds complexity to your infrastructure. Alongside these acquisitions are systems and platforms that have run in your data centers for years. You continue to support these older technologies because they run business services and mission-critical applications your people rely on. On top of that, as IT budgets shrink, you're asked to squeeze more from your existing hardware resources.

To control costs, reduce complexity and ensure you get the most from your IT investments for years to come, we offer SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. This open source platform enables a continuous stream of innovation and encourages competition, which reduces risk. The center of a vibrant technology ecosystem, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server runs on five popular processor architectures, most of them low-cost, and supports multiple open source and third-party virtualization platforms.

With SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, you not only get more from the systems you already own, but also gain greater efficiencies from server consolidation. And because SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the least expensive operating system on the market for creating and deploying virtual environments, you save even more. You can also use SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as a cost-effective guest operating system. With one subscription, you can run as many virtual instances as you want on a single physical server.

Although SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is a versatile and powerful addition to your mission-critical IT operations, it helps reduce complexity. The platform comes with powerful, easy-to-use tools that simplify installation, configuration, management and application development–even in the largest and most complex data centers.

Use the Platform Optimized for All Major Third-party Hypervisors

Because enterprises are increasingly moving workloads to virtual and cloud environments, We have optimized SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for all major virtualization hypervisors and cloud platforms. With virtualization, you can consolidate workloads onto fewer physical servers. As a result, you get more from your underutilized systems and lower the costs of acquiring and maintaining hardware. Additionally, consolidation saves space in the data center and keeps power and cooling costs down.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the perfect guest operating system for virtual servers created with hypervisor technologies from VMware, Microsoft and Citrix. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is optimized to deliver superior performance with VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer. It's also the most affordable operating system to use in these virtual environments. You can run an unlimited number of guest operating systems on one physical server for the cost of a single SUSE Linux Enterprise Server subscription.

Take Advantage of Built-in Virtualization Capabilities

Increased performance and efficiency doesn't have to empty your wallet or burden your IT team with administration nightmares. Each SUSE Linux Enterprise Server subscription includes support for all the leading open source hypervisor technologies. It ships with Xen, the most widely used open source virtualization hypervisor, and Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM), an emerging open source technology. To make life easier on your IT staff, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server includes graphical and command-line tools that dramatically simplify installing, configuring and managing your virtualized environments.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the perfect host operating system for running virtual Windows workloads. With optional paravirtualized drivers in the SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack, you can consolidate Windows applications and run them with near-native performance on virtualized Linux servers.

SP1 includes the latest Xen 4.0 hypervisor, which provides better performance, especially for I/O intensive workloads. It also includes Linux integration components for Hyper-V. Also, new paravirtualized drivers for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 guests are available with the latest SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack.

No matter which virtualization hypervisor you use, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is your best choice for running virtual Linux services.