The AMD — Novell Alliance
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Build a competitive multi-core computing foundation with AMD and Novell
Beyond performance, your business demands long-term investment protection, exceptional energy efficiency, and advanced virtualization technology. AMD and Novell deliver
AMD and Novell have worked closely together for years to bring breakthrough technology to market. AMD's ongoing collaboration with Novell stems from a shared commitment to high-performance, open source enterprise solutions.
SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server from Novell is consistently the first Linux distribution to enable advanced features in AMD processors. It was the first 64-bit server operating system to support: AMD Opteron™ processors, optimization for dual-core processing, AMD PowerNow!™ technology, and AMD Virtualization™ technology.
With the launch of Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is first Linux distribution to support AMD's latest key innovations.
Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, simply run better with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. See the resources below to find out why:
View AMD and Novell performance studies:
The Power of Virtualization
The average server workload in an enterprise environment can range from five to 40%, leaving 60% of the available capacity unused in many cases (based on October 2005 Novell customer interviews).
Still, the majority of today's data centers run a single application on a single server, creating server sprawl and resulting in more money spent on hardware and the resources required to manage it.
To significantly reduce these costs, data centers need to take better advantage of the high processing power of today’s server CPUs by employing server virtualization solutions that reduce sprawl and maximize workloads.
Learn more about the power of virtualization (PDF).
View a webinar from AMD and Novell on our virtualization collaboration.
No industry puts a higher premium on the speed, security, and reliability of IT infrastructures than financial services. And the keys to improving performance in each of those categories lie in the data center.
Open source operating systems such as SUSE Linux Enterprise are letting companies add business specific features to their applications for a real competitive advantage. Server virtualization technologies from XenSource are optimizing the utilization of servers.
And Second-Generation AMD Opteron processors with AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) are providing the hardware platform for both, helping companies squeeze the maximum performance and efficiency out of each server in the data center.
Discover how AMD and Novell are bringing open source virtualization to the financial services market (140KB PDF).
Find out how AMD64 technology can maximize the performance of Novell SUSE Real Time for financial services applications (136KB PDF).
SUSE Linux® Enterprise Desktop
Learn how Linux can improve worker productivity, bolster security and reliability, increase functionality, help lower overall total cost of ownership, and enable today's Governments to move away from rigid proprietary solutions of the past.
Discover the benefits of the Linux operating system in Government computing.
Open for Business
So what’s your IT challenge? To rapidly develop and deploy applications? More effective on-demand access to critical data?
From small start-ups to worldwide enterprises, IT leaders and developers increasingly consider open source technology for their IT demands. Now, AMD, IBM, and Novell offer a powerful, customer-centric solution that makes it easy.
Novell, HP and AMD take the guesswork and extra costs out of Linux operating system deployment
Now, with just one price and one license, you can do it all! HP, in conjunction with Novell/SUSE and AMD, is offering a Linux Enterprise eight-License Value Pack — use it on any combination of AMD Opteron processor-based HP BladeSystems and ProLiant Servers.
Learn more about SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for HP ProLiant &: BladeSystem Servers.
Events
Mitigating Email Risk
You need your e-mail — it's a vital tool for organizations worldwide. What you don't need are all the threats associated with it. Spam, viruses and other hazards are on the rise, crashing systems and draining productivity.
Come join AMD, IBM, Messaging Architects and Novell at this informative seminar where we will present a simple, cost-effective solution to the ongoing threats of spam and viruses while enforcing appropriate use policies to protect and save your Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange or Novell GroupWise system, and your organization.
Register online for the Mitigating Email Risk event.
Novell Work Group Works Tour — EMEA
AMD is Gold sponsor of the Novell Work Group Works Tour — EMEA. The tour is covering 19 countries in Europe.
Register online for the Work Group Works Tour.
Customer Sucess Stories
Enso Strom
For a flexible platform for its SAP software environment, ENSO Strom chose SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on AMD Opteron-based HP hardware.
In addition to considerably reducing licensing costs, the Linux solution provides a very powerful platform for ENSO Strom’s MaxDB databases, reduces administration workload, and cuts batch processing times.
Find out more about how Enso Strom significantly improved the performance of their SAP ERP environment.
Qualcomm
QUALCOMM Incorporated is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services based on the company's CDMA digital technology. Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., QUALCOMM is included in the S&P 500 Index and is a 2005 FORTUNE 500 company.
QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies (QCT), a QUALCOMM business unit, is the largest provider of 3G chipset and software technology in the world, with more than 90 million 3G chipsets and 1 billion total chips shipped. With the largest CDMA engineering team in the wireless industry, QCT is always looking for the fastest, most cost-effective development environment available.
After evaluating the AMD Opteron processor, QCT decided to move much of its CDMA development to a 64-bit Linux platform to improve the performance of its Electronic Data Automation (EDA) applications. The company had plans to double the size of its infrastructure and began searching for a Linux solution that would support its migration path, without creating excessive hardware or operating system costs.
Learn how QCT has reduced its hardware costs by more than 50%, while doubling performance by migrating its EDA environment to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and AMD Opteron processors.
Audi
AUDI AG, headquartered in Ingolstadt, Germany, is one of the world's leading prestige car manufacturers. With more than 52,000 employees, the company produces and sells more than 829,000 vehicles annually under the Audi and Lamborghini brands. Its commitment to technical innovation and excellence guides the creation of every Audi vehicle, from compact hatchbacks to Le Mans race cars.
Audi has a history of technical leadership that stretches back more than a century. In addition to comfort, high performance and low fuel consumption, continual innovations help the company achieve high performance in safety. Three of the ten cars featured in the Top Safety Picks 2006 from the US-based Insurance Institute for Highway Safety are Audi models.
To accelerate design cycles and minimize physical prototyping costs, Audi makes intensive use of computer-aided engineering (CAE), including crash simulation, virtual wind tunnels and other computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models. With engineers always striving to improve the detail and accuracy of modeling, there is constant pressure on the IT function to deliver more computing power.
Discover how Audi runs more detailed computational models within shorter timeframes helped by the improved price-performance delivered by SUSE Linux Enterprise server running on the AMD Opteron architecture.