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Advantages of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Over Windows

The Growth of Open Source in the Enterprise UNIX vs. Linux Trends 1 Linux is now the (Revenue in Millions) OS of choice in the enterprise replacing UNIX. 1 Source: Gartner 2

15+ 4/5 Where Mainframe Linux Linux in Finance SUSE Leads Over 15 years of mainframe Linux 4 out of 5 of the world’s largest banks use SUSE Linux Enterprise market share leadership 70% 80% 9/10 SAP on Linux Linux in Large Enterprise Linux in Aerospace 70% of all SAP applications running Over 80% of the Fortune Global 50 are 9 out of 10 of the largest aerospace on Linux run on SUSE active SUSE Customers companies rely on SUSE x10 7/10 7/10 Linux in Telecom Linux in Pharma Linux in Retail 10 of the largest telecommunications 7 out of 10 of the largest pharmaceutical 7 out of 10 of the largest retailers in the carriers rely on SUSE companies use SUSE Linux Enterprise U.S. are active SUSE customers x10 50% 7/10 Linux in Automotive Linux in HPC Linux in Manufacturing 10 of the largest global automobile mfgs. Half of the world’s 20 largest super 7 out of 10 world’s largest manufacturers are active SUSE customers computers run on SUSE use SUSE Linux Enterprise 3

A Broad Ecosystem 5000+ 13,500+ 2500+ 8500+ Partner Certified Certified Certified Hardware Products Applications Ecosystem members 3200 1800 600 Solution Technology Training Providers Partners Partners & System Integrators Interoperability Part of company-wide mission 4

How SUSE Adds Value Customer • Enterprise-quality • Enterprise-quality Benefits innovation and service innovation and service • Increased • Affordable mission-critical • Affordable mission-critical Agility performance performance • Reclaimed • Open, flexible, • Open, flexible, Budget optimized for mixed IT optimized for mixed IT • Reduced Risk 5

Comparisons 6

Reliability, Availability and Serviceability SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Windows Server 2012 R2 X86-64, IBM POWER8 LE, Hardware IBM z Systems X86-64 Platforms (x86-32, IBM POWER and Itanium on SUSE Supported Linux Enterprise 11 SP3) UNIX-level RAS features, such as Control RAS Features CPU RAS features like MCA Recovery Groups and MCE-log (Intel CPU) SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, including load-balancer and using Failover, clustering and network load HA Clustering OCFS2 mixed clustering between physical and balancing virtual Geo Clustering for SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, across virtual and No geo clustering capability Geo Clustering physical, with any distance worldwide 7

Scalability SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Windows Server 2012 R2 CPUs The latest Intel CPUs Same Supported Vertical 8,192 logical CPUs and 64 TB RAM (verified), 320 logical CPUs and 4TB memory 16 Exabyte file system size Scalability Networking 8G/16G FC adapters 8G FC adapter (Emullex) 10G/40G Ethernet adapters 10G Ethernet adapter iSCSI target (LIO) support Improved FCoE iSCSI compatible (2008/R2/2012) Data Center Bridging (DCB) DCB (2008/R2/2012) OFED 1.5.4 OFED support Virtual Machine Unlimited VM per host*, 4TB memory per VM 64 VM per host, 1TB memory per VM (KVM) Capacity 64VM per host, 512GB memory per VM (Xen) *unlimited (total number of virtual CPUs in all guests being no greater than 8 times the number of CPU cores in the host) 8

Security and Patching SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Windows Server 2012 R2 Security Features UEFI Secure Boot, AppArmor, SELinux UEFI Secure Boot Directory Service NIS, LDAP, SAMBA4 for Active Directory (LDAP based) easy AD integration Common Criteria Certification at EAL 4+, Similar Standard Compliance U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS 140-2) certified for Open SSL module*, USGv6/IPv6 Patching Granular patching, pick and choose Frequent patching and reboot packages updates that make sense Live Kernel SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching** N/A Patching *Achieved both on 11 SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 is under verification process. ** SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 has infrastructure built in for the live kernel patching. 9

Virtualization and Cloud SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Windows Server 2012 R2 As Virtual Guest Optimized on vSphere, Hyper-V and open Guest NUMA support, Share-nothing live source hypervisors migration Xen and KVM hypervisor support, Linux Hypervisor: Hyper-V As Virtual Host Containers (LXC), Docker (Tech Preview) Hyper-V Network Virtualization Private Cloud Yes. With SUSE OpenStack Cloud, SUSE Windows Azure Pack Studio Solution and SUSE Manager Public Cloud Available in AWS, Google, Azure and 50+ Similar public clouds Public Cloud Module with easy initialization 10

Other Features SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Windows Server 2012 R2 Apache IIS Web Server Btrfs, XFS, Ext-Family, Reiserfs, OCFS2* ReFS File Systems Server Management YaST, ZYpp, Snapper, etc. Core Server Management, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and Update Scripting Language bash, tcsh, Perl, Python, Ruby PowerShell, C Shell (via SUA), Perl Lifecycle 10 years of general support, three years of Five years of mainstream support (until Jan extended support; 2018), 10 years of extended support (Jan five optional modules with different lifecycles 2023); No modules concept. *in SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11

Licensing and Pricing SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Windows Server 2012 R2 Expensive and complicated pricing model in Simple pricing model bundling with other products No license for the software, just service pricing for License + SA model; license is for the actual maintenance and update software and SA covers service/updates As virtual host, one price covers unlimited VMs Data center version covers unlimited VMs No Client Access License (CAL) Need to cover CAL 12

Success Stories 13

2015 / SLES / Agriculture / New Zealand Turners & Growers Ltd Overview + Read Story Turners & Growers is New Zealand’s leading distributor, marketer and exporter of premium fresh agricultural produce. The company was founded in 1897 and has operations all over the world. Challenge Solution Results • • • Realized that migration its SAP applications Turners & Growers decided to migrate its Increased performance of business-critical to IBM DB2 database running on Linux SAP applications to IBM DB2 on SUSE SAP applications by around 15 percent would enable it to significantly reduce its Linux Enterprise Server, and at the same • Significantly reduced the company’s SAP SAP licensing costs and deliver valuable time to complete the Unicode conversion license fees performance improvements required to ensure that its SAP applications • Cut 60 percent from OS licensing costs could properly support its global business. • IT team was having to spend a significant • Cut time spent applying security patches by amount of time applying patches and 60 percent servies packs to its Windows systems to protect them from the latest security threats, which required downtime for SAP applications.

2015 / SLES / Electronics / Japan Casio Overview + Watch Video + Read Story Established in 1957, CASIO is a major global manufacturer of electronic products for home and business use. Famous for creating the world’s first electronic desktop calculator, the company today brings innovation to a wide range of products, from digital cameras to LCD screens. CASIO employs 13,000 people in 20 Japanese companies and 19 overseas subsidiaries. Challenge Solution Results • • • Consolidate and virtualize hundreds of By implementing SUSE Linux Enterprise Created a high-performance thin-client servers. Server with the SUSE Linux Enterprise appliance capable of extremely rapid Virtual Machine Driver Pack, CASIO deployment • Improve productivity by standardizing successfully achieved the same • communication tools across the group. Enabled the re-use of existing desktop performance for virtualized servers as it hardware, avoiding the need for new • Promote better IT control and cost- was getting with its original solution, but at capital investments. efficiency. around 10% of the cost. CASIO is using • Provided a fast and consistent user servers with the latest Intel VT and AMD-V experience in the office, from home and on processors to enable bare-metal mobile devices anywhere. virtualisation at nearnative speeds.