7 Reasons to Migrate from POWER/AIX to SUSE® Linux Enterprise

You can reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO) by as much as 70 percent.SUSE has many customers who have massively reduced their TCO by moving their mission-critical workloads to SUSE Linux Enterprise, enabling them to decrease software licensing, maintenance and hardware costs. SAP, for example, is one enterprise application that customers are now frequently migrating over as SUSE Linux Enterprise for SAP Applications is the leading platform for SAP solutions on Linux and the only Enterprise Linux optimized for all SAP solutions. www.suse.com/cirfood

You will get reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) that’s on a par with POWER/AIX. The combination of new multi-core, scale-up AMD/Intel hardware married with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server compares favorably with POWER/AIX in reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS). This means that that RAS can no longer be used to di�erentiate POWER/AIX and x86/SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. ww.suse.com/powertoserver

You will be much better set for the future.IDC, Gartner and Forrester continue to report on the decline of UNIX and increasing maturity of Linux. And with the limited options, lock-in and higher costs of POWER/AIX today and tomorrow versus the interoperability, openness to innovation and lower costs of x86/SUSE Enterprise Linux Server you will be able to increase IT’s responsiveness to address market changes more rapidly and improve business agility. http://blogs.forrester.com/richard_fichera/13-07-02-taking_stock_of_linux_maturation_continues

You can take your pick from the broadest range of certified x86 servers.SUSE has formed alliance partnerships with all industry-leading hardware providers. That means you can use our solutions with confidence, knowing they have been developed and tested to be compatible and that you will receive maximum and, in some cases, fully integrated support from all sides. A comprehensive list of partner hardware products that work with SUSE solutions is available here: www.suse.com/yessearch

You can take advantage of our certification of more than 10,000 applications.ISVs are dropping support for applications on POWER/AIX. This lack of innovation limits your ability to take advantage of many new technologies, such as virtualization, cloud computing and new storage technologies, which reduce costs and make you more responsive to market changes. In contrast, more than 10,000 ISV applications are certified to run on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server including more than 800 Oracle applications and 800 SAP applications. www.suse.com/isvcatalog

You will have maximum flexibility for virtualization.The powerful Xen and KVM hypervisors are included with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Alternatively, you can count on consistent performance and streamlined support when you use SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with Hyper-V or vSphere. Microsoft and VMware recommend SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to their customers who run Linux servers. www.suse.com/virtualization

You can realize the promises of cloud computing more quickly.SUSE Cloud makes it quicker and easier for you to deploy and manage a secure, reliable and scalable cloud infrastructure. It is built on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and is powered by OpenStack, the open-source cloud project with the broadest industry support and the most vibrant community. SUSE Cloud is also integrated with SUSE Manager and SUSE Studio™ to provide management and application development for SUSE Cloud as well as other cloud platforms, enabling the promises of cloud to become a reality. www.suse.com/cloudchalktalk

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