SUSE Manager and complaince and cost saving ~ DBA Consulting Blog

Boost productivity and alleviate strain on the IT budget.

Even in the smallest data centers, manually updating, patching, and configuring servers can be a time-consuming task filled with the chance for costly errors. You need a way to reduce IT costs no matter what size business you serve. As your Linux estate grows, it can require more and more IT personnel to keep up with all that manual work.

Automation is the key to reducing the IT costs associated with server management. SUSE Manager automates server management and provisioning, allowing you to perform these tasks faster and more accurately. These improvements in speed and accuracy raise your IT staff's productivity and reduce server downtime.

SUSE Manager also helps server administrators identify server performance issues before they disrupt your business. With SUSE Manager, the health of each Linux server in your data center can be monitored from a single console. When a server exceeds predefined performance thresholds you will be notified, so you can stay ahead of any trouble and limit the impact to your business.

Plus, SUSE Manager won't drain your IT budget. You will not only reduce IT costs related to your staff, but also save money on the solution itself. SUSE Manager delivers the capabilities you need to effectively manage your Linux systems, but at a more affordable price than proprietary third-party systems management products.

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Based on the Spacewalk open source project, SUSE Manager is the best solution for managing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and related extensions as well as Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It allows you to reduce the inherent complexity of managing multiple Linux distributions. It also manages Linux systems across diverse hardware architectures plus virtual and cloud environments. It gives you seamless systems management with a single centralized solution.
SUSE Manager directs Linux workloads across a range of hardware from x86 to IBM System z. It works across VMware, Xen, KVM and Hyper-V. It works on Amazon EC2 and other cloud platforms. And it even works for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server-based virtual and software appliances. This expands your flexibility and helps your IT organization realize the potential of virtual and cloud computing. You can decide the placement of workloads where they make sense based on performance, availability and cost, without losing any control.
No matter where you deploy Linux, SUSE Manager's tight integration with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux gives your IT staff the same view of their Linux systems, whether managing them remotely or locally. This integration lets administrators reduce their time spent identifying issues and managing their Linux servers.
Moreover, SUSE Manager is an easy solution for your IT staff to deploy and use. SUSE Manager server and SUSE Manager proxy server are delivered in an appliance. This reduces deployment time and effort. And SUSE Manager uses familiar Linux logics and terminology, so your Linux administrators can immediately take advantage of its robust capabilities with little training. If you are looking for a Linux systems management tool that can handle Red Hat management as well as SUSE management, SUSE Manager is the right choice.

You want a smart way to tackle the challenges of maintaining and demonstrating compliance for all your Linux workloads. With SUSE Manager you get it.
Using SUSE Manager ensures that your Linux workloads conform to security guidelines. SUSE Manager provides the ability to audit software patch status, automatically confirming that your servers have the latest security updates. If certain servers require a security update you can automatically deploy them across the necessary systems without touching each server.

Your IT organization can make sure that only authorized users can access your servers. You can apply SUSE Manager's role-based access controls to ensure administrators have the desired level of authority to manage each system. Through SUSE Manager, all changes to established server configurations can be tracked and the users easily identified.

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