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September 2018
Why You Should Be Looking at OpenStack Cloud NowPartner with SUSE on OpenStack Cloud
OpenStack Cloud Emerges as De Facto Standard Platform for Private Cloud DeploymentWhen NASA and Rackspace jointly launched OpenStack
in 2010, the platform wasn’t considered robust and
secure enough for enterprises.
Now, all that has changed.
Backed by one of the fastest-growing open source
communities in the world—with more than 73,000
members from 656 companies—OpenStack has grown
into a mature, feature-rich solution that Forrester calls
the “de facto standard platform for the private cloud market.”1
Consider that today:
• Half of the Fortune 100 runs OpenStack2
• More than 80% of organizations are either using
OpenStack or plan to start using it in the next 12
months3
• OpenStack is used by organizations of every size4:
• 25% of organizations with fewer than 100
employees
• 32% of organizations with more than 10,000
employees
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1 Forrester. “OpenStack’s Global Traction Expands For Its Newton Release.” Dec. 19, 2016. www.forrester.com/report/OpenStacks+Global+Traction+Expands+For+Its+Newton+Release/-/E-RES136209
2 Forrester, Sept. 9, 2016. “Quick Take: OpenStack Summit, Q2 2016.” www.forrester.com/report/Quick+Take+OpenStack+Summit+Q2+2016/-/E-RES130761
3 Independent market research commissioned by SUSE and conducted by Dynamic Markets. www.suse.com/newsroom/post/2016/new-research-shows-openstack-adoption-strong-but-complexities-remain
4 OpenStack User Survey, April 2017. www.openstack.org/assets/survey/April2017SurveyReport.pdf
OpenStack Cloud Emerges as De Facto Standard Platform for Private Cloud DeploymentOpenStack was once used primarily for development
projects, but today 63% of OpenStack deployments are
in full production.5 In addition, enterprises are turning
to OpenStack cloud for leading-edge data center
solutions like application containers, which are being
deployed three times faster on OpenStack than on
competitive solutions.6
Clearly, OpenStack has come a long way in seven short
years—and its exponential growth is likely to continue.
Revenue from OpenStack is expected to exceed $6.7
billion by 2021, with a 30 percent compound annual
growth rate.7 In addition, enterprises are turning to
OpenStack cloud for leading-edge data center
solutions like application containers, which are being
deployed three times faster on OpenStack than on
competitive solutions.
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5 OpenStack Foundation user survey, Nov. 2017 https://www.openstack.org/analytics 6 451 Research data, Oct. 20167 451 Research: OpenStack private cloud revenue to overtake its public cloud revenue in 2018https://451research.com/images/Marketing/press_releases/OpenStack_Nov_2017_vF.pdf
Making OpenStack Work for the Enterprise
SUSE was the first to release an enterprise-grade
OpenStack cloud distribution in 2012. And today, SUSE
OpenStack Cloud is the open source private cloud solution of choice for enterprise business.
Following the acquisition of HPE OpenStack talent and
assets, SUSE was one of the four most commonly used
OpenStack distributions.9
SUSE OpenStack Cloud’s support for a large number of
devices is ideal for enterprises that need to automate
more and have many different devices within their
environments.
SUSE has over 20 years of experience developing
strong working relationships with hardware vendors
and ISVs, resulting in:
• The widest hypervisor support available, including KVM, Xen, Hyper-V, VMWare and IBM z/VM—take your pick for developing new applications and smoothly migrating existing virtualized workloads into private cloud environments
• Outstanding interoperability based on the widest hardware certification and broadest software and application support of any OpenStack cloud distribution on the market
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9 OpenStack User Survey, Nov. 2017
“We receive excellent support from SUSE – not just in the way that they resolve customer issues professionally, but also in supporting our business, giving us access to information, training and demos so that we can present the best solution to satisfy our customers’ needs.”
ALEXANDER GOSTOVIC,SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER,PROFI ENGINEERING SYSTEMS AG
Making OpenStack Work for the Enterprise
A recent SUSE-sponsored survey found that 85% of
large companies would use a cloud solution for
business-critical workloads, with private cloud being the
preferred solution.10 While OpenStack is the best
environment for developing and deploying new
web-based applications today, many customers are also
considering what other core business workloads could
be a good fit for their private cloud.
SUSE has over 20 years of experience building hardened
open source solutions with built-in high availability features. That experience makes SUSE OpenStack
Cloud the ideal foundation for these business-critical
workloads.
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10 SUSE Global Cloud Research, 2017
More Automation Means Lower Costs, Fewer Headaches
Adding and configuring a new app on your phone or desktop takes
seconds. That’s the type of automated deployment that users of all
kinds—including employees in IT departments—increasingly expect.
SUSE OpenStack Cloud provides orchestration and self-service
capabilities that greatly reduce the time needed to provision services.
Through the automated deployment of a highly available cloud control
plane, these services are also made continuously accessible.
Competitive solutions often require more complex deployments with
multiple program installations that each require time and attention. It’s
not just that such manual processes are a pain—it’s that they cost the
enterprise money as they pull employees away from more
business-forward activities.
4 1,202 senior IT decision makers across 11 countries completed an online survey in July / August 2016
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SUSE Works Beyond the Cloud
Many businesses have made huge investments in their
existing IT infrastructure, so they’re looking for an
evolution, not a revolution. They want a platform that
will work well with their existing infrastructure and
support innovative new applications and initiatives.
Evolving an enterprise’s existing IT infrastructure into a
private cloud requires support for all their existing
hardware. For OpenStack cloud, SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server is proving to be the ideal foundation, delivering
the broadest hardware support and the best
interoperability available. This all adds up to great
investment protection.
SUSE OpenStack Cloud is built using SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server. It also includes container support for
Kubernetes with SUSE CaaS Platform, enabling you to
more easily deploy, manage, and scale your
Kubernetes-based applications and services, or to bring
alternative container orchestration frameworks through
OpenStack Magnum. SUSE designed the platform to
deliver the full value of OpenStack for businesses of all
kinds—including those that are looking for an evolution
and those that want a revolution.
Today’s enterprises need a platform that delivers the
right mix of IT evolution and revolution. OpenStack can
act as the integration engine, helping businesses
conjure up revolutionary new apps and initiatives, while
at the same time supporting the transformation of your
existing IT workloads.
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Going the Open Source Route to Avoid Vendor Lock-In
Among all the open source options, OpenStack is the
most popular by a wide margin. One of the reasons so
many organizations are turning to OpenStack is that it
enables them to avoid the high costs and hassles of
vendor lock-in.
SUSE-sponsored research shows just how concerned
organizations are about the pitfalls of vendor lock-in11:
• 79% of IT professionals surveyed say they are concerned about vendor lock-in when it comes to choosing a private infrastructure cloud solution
• 98% of respondents think that there are business advantages to implementing an open source private cloud. The leading advantages are:
• 61% flexibility
• 52% reduced costs
• 47% agility
• 44% freedom of choice
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11 SUSE Global Cloud Research, 2017
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PartnerBenefits
OpenStack Cloud is not only growing fast—but customers using OpenStack Cloud tend to grow their investments once they discover the benefits. We offer partners free training, full marketing support, deal registration and other incentives to help you maximize your OpenStack Cloud opportunities.
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10x in Services and Consulting Revenue
“Business agility is very important to our customers. With SUSE, our customers can automate processes and spin up applications in the cloud in minutes. We are confident that these solutions work because SUSE has a long history in delivering enterprise-ready open source solutions. And, as a partner, we also get value from building and delivering services around these solutions.”
SUSE Enterprise Storage is a high-margin solution:
Our partners find that they can typically earn up to 10 times the
customer’s investment in SUSE OpenStack Cloud in services and
consulting revenue. This is revenue that SUSE does not take directly
because we recognize this is an important revenue stream for our
OpenStack partners.
NICOLAS CHRISTENER,CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER,ADFINIS SYGROUP AG
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Free EnablementTraining
SUSE will help you get started with
training that is always free, no matter
how you choose to consume it.
The SUSE OpenStack Cloud sales
training is delivered online and
on-demand and will enable you to
take a multiple-choice certification
exam to become a SUSE Sales
Specialist in OpenStack Cloud.
The technical training that we
provide will enable you to be
certified as a SUSE Certified
Administrator (SCA) in OpenStack
Cloud and the OpenStack
Foundation’s Certified OpenStack
Administrator (COA).
Our partners can choose to access
free technical training delivered:
• Online: Self-paced learning via
recorded webcasts and hands-on
lab practice sessions
• Partner Academies: A combination
of online learning and weekly
instructor-led webinars (a blend of
online and off-line learning)
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Thirty PercentRebates
You can join the SUSE Partner Program at one of three tiers. Our top-tier Solution Partners for Cloud receive an unheard-of 30 percent deal registration rebate on every deal won!
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Use Cases forSUSE OpenStack Cloud
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Use Cases:
• DevOps: Rapidly build and deploy new cloud-native
web applications and workloads
• Data Center Transformation: Evolve traditional IT
infrastructure investments
• Production Environments: Deploy newly developed
applications and workloads
• Build Software-Defined Infrastructure: Easily migrate
traditional mission-critical workloads
• Enterprise applications as-a-service: Reliably deliver
outcomes such as desktop-as-a-service or
container-as-a-service
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Use Cases | Customer Example
Customer Example: FIS-ASP
“Building on our strong relationship with SUSE and SAP, and knowing that SAP itself trusts SUSE to run its own cloud platforms, we are confident that SUSE OpenStack Cloud will help us to strengthen our competitive advantage and increase customer satisfaction further.”
—MATTHIAS BRAUN, HEAD OF DELIVERY SAP, FIS-ASP
SolutionChallenges Results
• As a certified SAP partner and developer serving more than 300 customers and over 35,000 SAP users worldwide, the business had dynamic requirements with many new projects, products and services being launched in parallel
• Despite these rising demands and complexity, IT had a keep a lid on costs and manage effectively with a low manual administration workload
• SUSE Enterprise Storage
• SUSE OpenStack Cloud
• SUSE Consulting
• SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware
• SUSE Studio
• Accelerates complex system deployments from between 40 and 60 days to just two or three days
• Enables use of commodity hardware, unlocking cost savings of around 50 percent
• 20 percent less time spent on administration compared with other operating systems
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Use Cases | Customer Example
Would you like to simplify the management of your workloads in both
business critical and cloud environments?
How are you leveraging the public cloud when your private cloud reaches maximum capacity?
For IBM Z Systems customers: How do you incorporate your IBM Systems Z Linux workloads into your cloud strategy?
Are you looking to make your data center environment easier to manage and maintain?
How concerned are you that the vendors you partner with will lock you in?
Is SUSE OpenStack Cloud a Good Fit for your Customers?
Ask these questions to determine if SUSE OpenStack Cloud would be a good fit for your current and potential customers:
How have the developments in hybrid cloud and multi-cloud impacted your
existing cloud strategy?
QMore agility, faster innovation and
time-to-market is on everyone’s agenda, how is your current cloud strategy helping
you reach these goals?
Does a public cloud deployment raise concerns within your security and compliance
team? Are they more comfortable with a private cloud approach?
The cloud is an “always on” service that you can provide to your “consumers”- do you have a service level agreement or an expectation in
place with regards to cloud availability?
When deploying new cloud native applications, most customers find that they see an acceleration in their data storage needs – how does this growth
in storage impact your cloud strategy?
Are you looking to integrate open source technologies alongside your existing investments?
If the customer has deployed a private cloud: What was your experience with the upgrade process
of your existing private cloud deployment?
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Strong PartnerEcosystem
Overview | Cisco | Dell | Fujitsu | HPE | Lenovo | SAP | Supermicro
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Cisco
SUSE and Cisco have jointly created unique, value-add integrations with SUSE OpenStack Cloud. A plug-in module for Cisco UCS Manager consistently deploys hardware targets, according to templates and integrates with the discovery and allocation process of SUSE OpenStack Cloud. Leveraging existing network infrastructure, the integration with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) allows truly software-defined networking capabilities from within the SUSE OpenStack Cloud dashboards. • See the Solution Flyer: Cisco and SUSE®: Providing Unified Computing
Systems for Streamlining Data Centers
• Read the Whitepaper: SUSE OpenStack Cloud and Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Solution
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Dell
SUSE and Dell have teamed up to deliver industry-leading Linux solutions on industry-leading PowerEdge servers from Dell and Dell Networking switches integrated with enterprise-class SUSE OpenStack Cloud software.
• Find out how to create and deploy a private cloud that combines the best of Dell and SUSE.
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Fujitsu
Fujitsu offers on-premises, hosted, and cloud-based solutions—featuring SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE OpenStack—that enterprise customers can count on for high performance, efficiency and reliability.
The Fujitsu PRIMEFLEX Integrated System adds native integration of SUSE OpenStack Cloud—and that means faster, risk-free deployments of private cloud infrastructures. • Learn about Fujitsu’s extension of PRIMEFLEX for OpenStack Family with
SUSE OpenStack Cloud.
• Solution Flyer: Accelerate Your Cloud Journey with FUJITSU Integrated System PRIMEFLEX Powered by SUSE OpenStack Cloud
• Datasheet: Fujitsu OpenStack® Services for Private Cloud Implementation
Overview | Cisco | Dell | Fujitsu | HPE | Lenovo | SAP | Supermicro
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SUSE and HPE have been close partners for years—and it shows. SUSE technology is embedded on every HPE ProLiant server platform to power the intelligent provisioning feature. • Read the Solution Brief: Transform IT to power business results - HPE
ProLiant for SUSE OpenStack Cloud
• Offering one of the highest end compute nodes, SGI, now part of HPE, and SUSE have collaborated to create a SUSE OpenStack Cloud reference architecture, that focuses on the scale-up aspect. By including high availability, Storage and high-end networking, an implementation like this can deliver High-Performance-Computing-as-a-Server (HPCaaS).
• An integration with HPE OneView and SUSE OpenStack Cloud utilizes the features of both to efficiently, consistently and seamlessly deploy system platforms from bare-metal into fully functional resource nodes of an Infrastructure-as-a-Service instance.
HPE
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Lenovo
Together, SUSE and Lenovo are providing the most interoperable way to build a data center. Lenovo servers combined with open source infrastructure solutions from SUSE provide dependable, secure, high-performance solutions for enterprise computing.
• Get the Lenovo reference architecture for SUSE OpenStack Cloud integrated with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
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SAP
The flexibility of OpenStack’s open architecture and interfaces makes it a viable option for companies running SAP HANA. To support the implementation of OpenStack, many companies are turning to the administration and orchestration solutions available in SUSE OpenStack Cloud for SAP environments, which facilitates rapid implementation and simple management, as well as high availability of the open-source framework with automatic failover.
• Whitepaper: SUSE® Linux and OpenStack: High Standards for SAP Offerings from the Cloud
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Supermicro’s NVMe-enabled OpenStack hardware combined with SUSE OpenStack Cloud, maximizes compute performance.
• See the tested and validated reference architecture for a reliable, production-ready and scalable instance.
Supermicro
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AdditionalResources
Need more convincing? Here are some great sources for more information:
Learn more about SUSE OpenStack Cloud here: https://www.suse.com/products/suse-openstack-cloud/
To read more about Cloud Solutions, and how they can benefit your business, visithttps://www.suse.com/solutions/cloud/
Interested in reading more about how SUSE can help businesses on their digital transformation journey? Check out https://www.suse.com/programs/digital-transformation/
To read more about software-defined infrastructure, visithttps://www.suse.com/solutions/software-defined-infrastructure/
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