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Cisco and SUSE ®: Providing Unified Computing Systems for Streamlining Data Centers SUSE® is a leading supplier of enterprise operating systems and software for building and managing data center environments that include physical, virtual and cloud workloads. By using our solutions, customers can better manage complexity and respond faster to the needs of the business while lowering operational expenses. Products: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for High Performance Computing SUSE Cloud With SUSE and Cisco, learn new ways to decouple scale from complexity and cost and discover how to reduce the amount of time your staff spends manually accomplishing basic tasks. Partner Flyer Enterprise Linux Servers Cloud Infrastructure With more than 10,000 certified applica- tions from over 1,600 independent software vendors, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is a versatile platform that delivers perfor- mance and security at the highest level of any operating system. The combination of the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) and our more than 20 years of experience delivering enterprise solutions across a broad market offers data center custom- ers a new way to decouple scale from com- plexity and cost. SUSE and Cisco solutions cover: Networking Virtualization Cloud infrastructure Management tools Storage The excellent integration of these solutions enables CIOs and IT managers to reduce the amount of time their staffs spend manually accomplishing basic tasks, allowing more time to focus on proactive data center tasks. Cisco and SUSE build on this combined offering through strong partnerships with leading virtualization, storage and tool vendors as well as cloud service providers. Cisco, with its long-time presence in most data centers worldwide, its networking products and, more recently, Cisco Unified Computing System, and SUSE, with its re- cord of success in the broad enterprise mar- ket, offer customers the products to keep pace with market and technology changes: Migration from RISC/UNIX to Linux Movement to cloud computing, including hybrid cloud computing High availability Scale-up/scale-out computing Big-data processing using in-memory systems
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Cisco and SUSE®: ProvidingUnified Computing Systems for Streamlining Data CentersSUSE® is a leading supplier of enterprise operating systems and software for building and managing data center environments that include physical, virtual and cloud workloads. By using our solutions, customers can better manage complexity and respond faster to the needs of the business while lowering operational expenses.
Products:
SUSELinuxEnterpriseServer
SUSELinuxEnterpriseServerforSAP
Applications
SUSELinuxEnterpriseHighAvailability
Extension
SUSELinuxEnterpriseServerfor
HighPerformanceComputing
SUSECloud
With SUSE and Cisco, learn new ways to decouple scale from complexity and cost and discover how to reduce the amount of time your staff spends manually accomplishing basic tasks.
Partner FlyerEnterpriseLinuxServers
CloudInfrastructure
Withmorethan10,000certifiedapplicationsfromover1,600independentsoftwarevendors,SUSELinuxEnterpriseServerisaversatileplatformthatdeliversperformanceandsecurityatthehighestlevelofanyoperatingsystem.ThecombinationoftheCiscoUnifiedComputingSystem(UCS)andourmorethan20yearsofexperiencedeliveringenterprisesolutionsacrossabroadmarketoffersdatacentercustomersanewwaytodecouplescalefromcomplexityandcost.
SUSEandCiscosolutionscover:
Networking Virtualization Cloudinfrastructure Managementtools Storage
TheexcellentintegrationofthesesolutionsenablesCIOsandITmanagerstoreducethe
amountoftimetheirstaffsspendmanuallyaccomplishingbasictasks,allowingmoretimetofocusonproactivedatacentertasks.CiscoandSUSEbuildonthiscombinedofferingthroughstrongpartnershipswithleadingvirtualization,storageandtoolvendorsaswellascloudserviceproviders.
Cisco,withitslongtimepresenceinmostdatacentersworldwide,itsnetworkingproductsand,morerecently,CiscoUnifiedComputingSystem,andSUSE,withitsrecordofsuccessinthebroadenterprisemarket,offercustomerstheproductstokeeppacewithmarketandtechnologychanges:
MigrationfromRISC/UNIXtoLinux Movementtocloudcomputing,
includinghybridcloudcomputing Highavailability Scale-up/scale-outcomputing Big-dataprocessingusingin-memory
systems
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Enterprise Linux Servers/Cloud Infrastructure Partner FlyerCisco and SUSE: Providing Unified Computing Systems for Streamlining Data Centers
UNIX to Linux Migration SolutionsSUSELinuxEnterpriseServeronCiscoUCSprovidesRISC/UNIXscalability,securityandRASonnewer,moreenergyefficientx86hardwareataLinuxprice.TechnologyadvancementsinSUSELinuxEnterpriseServertakeadvantageofItaniumfeaturesIntelhasincorporatedintothenextgenerationXeonprocessors,makingSUSELinuxEnterpriseServeranoptimalreplacementforRISC/UNIXinthebackenddatabaseapplicationspace.
RISC/UNIXtoLinuxmigrationisoftenpartofanydatacentermodernizationprocess.Modernizationinvolvescontrollingcostswhileensuringlongtermcompetitiveness:
Nearly70percentofbusinesssystemsarelegacysystems(suchasRISC/UNIX).
Theseinfrastructuresoftenhavelessthan20percentutilization.
Theseenvironmentscanconsume75–90percentofanITbudget.
Oneimportantpartofdatacentermodernizationinvolvesdetermininghowsavingsinserver,storage,andnetworkinfrastructurecanbeachieved.MigratingRISC/UNIXserverworkloadstoLinuxallowsforserverconsolidationandcloudtechnologytodrivedownCapexcosts.
ButtherealvalueformanycustomersisaroundOpexsavings.SUSEandCisco,workingtogetherwithtechnologysuchasSUSELinuxEnterpriseServerandUCS,provideconvergedinfrastructure(knownas“fabriccomputing”)tohelpyoudrivedownCapexandOpexcosts,increaseefficiencyandenhanceresponsivenesstochangingmarketconditions.
High AvailabilityCiscoandSUSEhavepartneredtodeliverhighavailabilityforSAPsolutions.BycombiningCiscoIntelligentAutomationforSAPandthehighavailabilityextensionforSUSELinuxEnterprise,customersareableto:
MonitorutilizationacrossCPU,memoryandmore
Automatemaintenance MonitorSAPsubsystemcomponent
status
Thehighavailabilityextensionincludes:
High-availabilityserviceandapplicationclustering
Filesystemsandclusteredfilesystems Networkattachedstorage(NAS) Networkfilesystems Volumemanagers Storageareanetwork(SAN)and
drivers Abilitytomanageabovecomponents
workingtogether
SUSEandCiscotechnologiescomplementandenhanceeachother.
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SUSE Cloud Integrated with Cisco UCSSUSECloudisanautomatedcloudcomputingplatformbasedontheOpenStackprojectthatenablesenterprisestorunInfrastructureasaServiceprivateclouds.
BydeployingSUSECloud,customerscan:
Respondfastertothemarket Reducecosts Improveresourceutilization SpeedthedeliveryofITservices
SUSECloudhasbeenintegratedwithCisco’sUCSManagertoprovidetheonlyenterprisequality,OpenStackbasedprivatecloudsoftwarewithprovisioningofCiscohardwarefromwithinthecloudmanagementconsole.TheintegrationbetweenSUSECloudandCisco’sUCSManagermakessettingupanOpenStackcloudeasyandefficient,soenterprisescangetafasterreturnontheirprivatecloudinvestment.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for High Performance ComputingLinuxistheoperatingsystemofchoicefortheworld’sfastestsupercomputerswithaleaderinSUSELinuxEnterprise.AvailableonCiscoUCS,SUSELinuxEnterpriseServerenablesfeaturessuchasasynchronousI/Oandmulticore/hyperthreadingprocessorsupporttorunonscaleout/scaleupservers.SUSELinuxEnterpriseServerforHighPerformanceComputingandCiscoUCS,withtheirpotentialformassivescalability,provideaverycompetitiveplatformforHPC.
Big Data SolutionsAnalyzingbigdatapresentshugeopportunitiesforinnovationandgrowth—andbigchallenges.Asuccessfulbigdataenvironmentrequiresasolutionthatcanseamlesslyincorporatehighavailability,security,cloudcomputingandhighperformancetechnologies.Withitsproven
enterpriseexperienceandleadershipinthesecoretechnologies,SUSEprovidestherightfoundationtoallowyoutoovercomebarriersandcapitalizeonthevaluabledatathatexistsinyourorganization.
SUSELinuxEnterpriseServersupportstheopenHadoopframeworkforprocessingdistributeddataintensiveworkloads.ItcanisolateallnonHadoopprocessesononecoreandmaximizeprocessingpowerreservedforBigDataprocessing.SUSELinuxEnterpriseServerisanidealplatformforbigdataworkloadsbecauseofitssupportfor:
Transparentper-CPUloadbalancingonmulti-queuedevices
Fasterpacketfilteringtoboostnetworkperformance
ImprovementstolargefilehandlingtospeedupI/O-intensiveworkloads
Additionally,SUSEhaspartneredwithCiscotodeliverafullsolutionportfolioforSAPHANAonCiscoUCS.SUSELinuxEnterpriseServeristheexclusiveoperatingsystemforthissolutionbecausetheSUSELinuxEnterpriseServerforSAPApplicationsoperatingsystemhasfeaturesspecificallyoptimizedtoimproveperformanceofSAPHANAinmemoryprocessingforbigdataonUCS.
Learn MoreTolearnmoreaboutSUSEandCiscoandhowoursolutionscanhelpyoustreamlineyourdatacenter,visit:www.suse.com/cisco
SUSECloudprovidesthefundamentalcapabilitiesenterprisesneedtodeploytheirownIaaScloud.
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