SUSE LINUX Enterprise Solutions Overview Guy Smith Marketing

SUSE LINUX: Enterprise Solutions Overview Guy Smith Marketing Strategist SUSE LINUX

The one Net vision 2 © March 18, 2004 Novell Inc.

The one Net vision 3 © March 18, 2004 Novell Inc.

Agenda • • Why SUSE? • Autobuild and other things that make SUSE the best for IT • SUSE products • 4 What is the SUSE universal OS vision Partnerships and alliances © March 18, 2004 Novell Inc.

Who is SUSE? Statistics Market Focus Global Operations Improving the Bottom Line Lowering the overall cost of operations Consolidating IT Resources 5 © March 18, 2004 Novell Inc.

Why SUSE was in the market • • • Gartner: 45% mid-sized businesses using Linux CIO. com: 54% of CIO believe Open Source will be their predominate technology by 2007 SG Cowen survey: Linux in use @ 80% of sites – – • • 72% on servers 15% on desktops Sabre: $2 -billion-a-year travel- reservations system, uses Linux and open-source databases Google. . . thousands of Linux servers "A truly disruptive technology does not get noticed until it's too late. " Mark Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape 6 © March 18, 2004 Novell Inc.

SUSE Market Data ● Europe's best selling Linux ● SUSE is growing aggressively in the US market ● SUSE is ranked #2 in the x 86 arena with ~20% Market Share ● SUSE is the undisputed technology leader in 64 -bit Linux ● SUSE dominates the non x 86 Enterprise Linux markets ● More than 50% of the i/p. Series * ● More than 80% of the Linux for S/390 and z. Series markets * * According to IBM 7 © March 18, 2004 Novell Inc.

What makes SUSE Unique? ● Pure focus on Enterprise Linux ● ● ● The Universal OS ● ● ● SUSE maintains a dialoge with business Linux users -- technical and executives We design SUSE LINUX for the mainframe, and let the quality echo through all platforms One source, multiple platforms Been doing this for several years (unlike some newbies) Building the best Linux ecosystem available for business Choosing strategic partners to deliver a complete Linux solution for businesses ● IBM, CA, HP, SAP, BEA, and on, and on. . . Would you rather drive a Mercedes or a Yugo? ● 8 © March 18, 2004 Novell Inc.

SUSE Vision The Enterprise Yesterday (sadly)… 9 © March 18, 2004 Novell Inc.

SUSE Vision The Enterprise Today … ERP apps Web apps Custom apps Db’s SUSE LINUX Desktop / Enterprise Server Universal OS© Compaq Desktop 10 © March 18, 2004 Novell Inc. Dell SUN HP IBM Mainframe

What is Auto. Build? ● Auto. Build is unique to SUSE ● ● ● 11 A system for automating the SUSE LINUX build process Uses one source code base for all platforms Builds and tests each platform Test the interoperability of each platform Assures that all SUSE LINUX products work together perfectly Why is this important? For the customer it. . . ● Reduces production problems ● Improves operations ● Consolidates skill sets ● Expidites IT solutions © March 18, 2004 Novell Inc.

SUSE's Auto. Build System One source, one build, many platforms ● Our Auto. Build system creates a completely crosscompatible SUSE LINUX for all platforms ● Absolute cross-platform interoperability ● ● Single-source assures that laptops, clusters, minis and mainframes work in the same way Highest available degree of application portability ● ● ● SW vendors now have many more profit centers (platforms) to which they can easily port Peripheral vendors have more platform opportunities Mainframe-grade stability on all platforms ● ● ● SUSE LINUX builds to support five-nines (99. 999%) stability for mainframe users That stability is replicated for all other platforms Businesses trust SUSE engineering to provide a proven, rock-solid Linux environment across all platforms. 12 © March 18, 2004 Novell Inc.

Desktop and Server code share example SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server (SLES) Third-party server applications 13 Open Source server applications Installation and system management Core Base Uniform certification system Certification of server applications Certification of desktop applications Certification of server hardware Certification of desktop hardware SUSE LINUX Desktop (SLD) Open Source client applications (Open. Office. org, Gimp) Centralized deployment management Third-party desktop applicatrons

Ya. ST – Administration Made Easy 14 © March 18, 2004 Novell Inc.

SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server ● ● Scalable vertically and horizontally ● ● For x 86, Itanium, Opteron, i-Series, p-Series and z-Series Mainframe-grade stability on all platforms Unique features ● ● ● Ya. ST, for easy and bullet-proof administration YOU for automated patch identification, downloading and installation Massively scalable ● ● Up to 64 processors ● Up to 512 GB of memory ● Up to 2000 physical disc drives (292 terabytes) ● 15 32 - or 64 -bit Multipath and asynchronous I/O © March 18, 2004 Novell Inc.

Enterprise Server Capabilities • Security • Common Criteria EAL 3+ and Dii. COE certifications • Encrypted file systems • File manipulation monitoring • Access control lists (ACL) • Secure network connections with 128 -Bit SSL, IPSec, Secure Shell, Kerberos 5 authentication, etc. • Report of attacks from the network • Automated Software Distribution/Software Management (Auto. Ya. ST) • Identical software configurations can be distributed and installed automatically on hosts with different hardware • Throughput • Async I/O for throuput optimization and redundancy • Raw device I/O • Journaling file systems • Logical Volume Management • Carrier Grade Linux for the telco industry 16 © March 18, 2004 Novell Inc.

Enterprise Server Capabilities Native clustering capabilities ● Heartbeat failover, IP address takeover ● Load balancing ● Multipathing to I/O devices (SCSI, Fibre, Net) ● Scalability case studies ● ● 17 Distributed Terascale Facility ● $53 million dollar project ● Eight teraflops and holding 450 terabytes of data ● 40 gigabit distributed network ● 3, 300 Itanium processors on 1, 000 servers Japan's National Inst. of Advanced Ind. Science & Technology (AIST) ● World's most powerful Linux supercomputer. 3 rd in the world: 11 Tera FLOPS ● 1, 058 IBM e. Server 325 systems ● 2, 116 AMD Opterons processors "Red Storm" Project: ● Massively Parallel Processing Supercomputer ● Cray 10, 000 Opteron Processors © March 18, 2004 Novell Inc.

Novell Linux Support ● Support for SUSE LINUX ● Available from Novell ● ● ● From IBM, HP, Sun and Oracle ● 18 Maintenance – patches, email support, installation support Premium support – 24 X 7 phone, standard plus high availability © March 18, 2004 Novell Inc. “One throat to choke”

SUSE LINUX Standard Server ● ● For x 86 only Unique features ● ● ● 19 Web based administration interface Functions for safe delegation of admin tasks © March 18, 2004 Novell Inc.

SUSE LINUX Openexchange ● Linux-based groupware ● ● ● Features include ● ● ● ● ● 20 Based on Open. Source Extremely scalable ● 800+ users on a standard Intel box Email support Calendars Address books Project management Knowledge base Document management Forums, IM, fax, SMS Outlook client support – Evolution in ‘ 04 All end-user and admin functions accessable via a web browser Up to ¼ the cost of a Microsoft Exchange server © March 18, 2004 Novell Inc.

SUSE LINUX Desktop provides full office desktop functionality on the mainframegrade SUSE LINUX platform. 21 © March 18, 2004 Novell Inc.

SUSE – Customer Engagements 22

Why SUSE LINUX? 23

Recap 24 © March 18, 2004 Novell Inc.

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