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Stop managing SAP infrastructure by hand. Automate it. How SUSE helps organizations deploy SAP environments faster, more consistently and with less operational risk. Key Takeaways: * Manual SAP deployments create configuration drift, slow down migrations and lock up specialized IT talent in repetitive operational tasks. * SLES for SAP Applications delivers end-to-end automation from operating system tuning up through SAP workload deployment across hybrid and multicloud environments. * Automating SAP infrastructure standardizes governance, lowers operational risk and builds a scalable platform for digital transformation. For most enterprises, SAP is one of the most business-critical parts of the IT landscape. Yet deploying and maintaining SAP infrastructure often still involves a significant amount of manual work. Every new S/4HANA environment requires infrastructure to be provisioned, operating systems to be configured, SAP-specific settings to be applied, high availability to be established and applications and databases to be installed. Multiply this across development, test, quality assurance, production, multiple locations and potentially several cloud providers, and the operational effort quickly becomes substantial. The result is familiar to many IT organizations: long deployment cycles, scarce specialist resources tied up in repetitive work, configuration differences between environments and increased operational risk. Automation changes that equation. "Deploy SAP environments faster, reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and free highly skilled teams to focus on higher-value activities." With SLES for SAP Applications 16, SUSE is expanding its SAP automation capabilities to help organizations standardize and automate the deployment and operation of SAP infrastructure from the underlying platform through to the SAP workload. For CIOs and IT leaders, the objective is simple: deploy SAP environments faster, reduce manual effort, improve consistency and free highly skilled teams to focus on higher-value activities. From manual projects to repeatable processes. SAP deployments have traditionally required close coordination between infrastructure, Linux, SAP Basis, database, storage and networking teams. Even where organizations have already automated parts of their infrastructure, significant manual work can remain between provisioning a server and having a fully configured, highly available SAP system ready for use. SUSE provides automation designed specifically for SAP infrastructure optimization. It can cover activities including: * Infrastructure provisioning: Prepare the required infrastructure for SAP landscapes across supported platforms. * System configuration: Apply operating system settings, SAP tuning, storage configuration and other required preparation consistently. * SAP deployment: Automate SAP HANA and application installation, including high-availability configuration. * Day-to-day operations: Automate recurring tasks such as patching, health checks and routine maintenance. More than 30 predefined automation scenarios are available for common SAP environments including S/4HANA, BW/4HANA, ECC and SAP Solution Manager. Instead of treating every new SAP environment as an individual infrastructure project, organizations can turn deployments into standardized and repeatable processes. Why this matters to the business. The primary benefit is not simply that an automated deployment is faster. The larger opportunity is to improve the operating model for SAP. * Faster time to value: New SAP environments can be provisioned and configured using predefined automation rather than being assembled manually step by step. This can accelerate S/4HANA migrations, cloud moves, system copies, testing environments and expansion into new regions. * Better use of scarce skills: Experienced SAP Basis and infrastructure specialists are difficult to hire and expensive to retain. Automation allows organizations to capture expert knowledge once and reuse it consistently, leaving specialists more time for architecture, optimization, availability, security and transformation work. * Lower operational risk: Manual configuration introduces variation. Automation makes infrastructure configuration repeatable across development, QA and production environments, helping reduce human error and configuration drift. * Improved governance and auditability: Standardized automation provides a clearer record of how systems were built and configured. Operational processes become easier to understand, reproduce, review and audit. Consistency across hybrid and multicloud environments. Most large SAP customers no longer operate in a single infrastructure environment. SAP landscapes may span on-premises infrastructure, private cloud and hyperscalers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. This makes standardization increasingly important. SUSE's SAP automation approach allows organizations to use common automation patterns across different infrastructure environments. Platform-specific details can change while the overall deployment process remains consistent. For IT leaders, this provides an important architectural benefit: the operating model does not have to change every time the infrastructure platform changes. That can simplify hybrid cloud management strategies and reduce dependency on platform-specific operational processes. Build on existing investments. Automation does not require organizations to replace tools that already work. If infrastructure teams use technologies such as Terraform for provisioning, they can continue doing so while using SUSE automation for operating system configuration and SAP deployment. Organizations using SUSE Multi-Linux Manager can also continue using their existing automation capabilities. The goal is not to impose a single automation technology. It is to provide SAP-specific automation that can fit into an organization's existing operating model. That flexibility is particularly important for large enterprises, where infrastructure standards and tooling have often evolved over many years. Enterprise automation without giving up openness. SUSE's SAP automation capabilities build on open source technologies and the SAP Linux Lab initiative, a collaboration involving SAP, SUSE, Red Hat and IBM. At the same time, the automation components are delivered through official SUSE channels and supported as part of the enterprise platform. Organizations gain the transparency and flexibility of open source automation while retaining enterprise support and lifecycle management. The automation can also be adapted to company-specific requirements, for example security hardening, monitoring integration, backup configuration or internal infrastructure standards. This allows enterprises to standardize without turning their SAP environment into a proprietary black box. Modernize without rebuilding everything at once. Large SAP landscapes cannot be modernized overnight. SUSE therefore supports an evolutionary approach. Organizations can introduce automation for new deployments while continuing to manage existing SLES for SAP Applications environments. This makes it possible to modernize processes gradually rather than requiring a disruptive platform migration. For CIOs, this reduces transformation risk: automation can be introduced where it generates the greatest value first and expanded over time. The strategic value: A more scalable SAP operating model. The most important outcome is not a faster installation. It is a more scalable way of operating SAP. When deployments become standardized and repeatable, IT organizations can move from manually managing individual systems toward managing SAP infrastructure as a reusable platform. That provides several strategic advantages: * Speed: Faster delivery of SAP environments and less infrastructure-related delay in business transformation programs. * Efficiency: More productive use of scarce SAP and infrastructure expertise. * Consistency: A common approach across environments, locations and infrastructure platforms. * Risk reduction: Less manual configuration and fewer opportunities for human error or configuration drift. * Governance: More repeatable, transparent and auditable operational processes. * Flexibility: Greater freedom to operate across on-premises and cloud platforms without reinventing the SAP deployment process. As SAP customers move toward S/4HANA, hybrid cloud and increasingly complex infrastructure landscapes, this operating model becomes increasingly valuable. The question for IT leaders is therefore no longer simply "How do we automate an SAP installation?" It is: "How much of our SAP operating model can we standardize and automate so that our people can focus on the work that differentiates the business?" With SLES for SAP Applications 16, SUSE provides the SAP-specific automation foundation to help organizations make that transition. Getting started. Organizations already using SLES for SAP Applications can introduce the automation capabilities into their existing environments and start with selected deployment or operational scenarios. For organizations evaluating infrastructure platforms for an upcoming S/4HANA deployment, cloud migration, system copy or SAP modernization initiative, automation should be considered as part of the platform decision, not as an operational improvement to be added later. Because ultimately, the value of automation is not the command that runs the deployment. It is the time, consistency, predictability and expert capacity that IT gets back. Nov 25th, 2024 May 28th, 2025 Mar 27th, 2025 Jan 15th, 2025 Tobias Kutning - Senior Manager Product Management for SAP Solutions

SUSE partners with Centorrino Technologies to replace VMware across enterprise infrastructure. SUSE | Published 12 Aug 2026 New partnership offers Australian enterprises a cost-effective virtualisation path, after Centorrino Technologies (CT) avoided significant cost increases on its own infrastructure, as major vendors raise prices SUSE(R), a global leader in innovative, open and secure enterprise-grade solutions, today announced that Centorrino Technologies (CT), a full-service ICT solutions and cyber security provider, has selected SUSE Virtualisation as a replacement to VMware across its hosted infrastructure platform - avoiding significant cost increases on CT's current services once completed. Having run in production for some time, the platform is now ready to be rolled out to customers, with CT set to move thousands of Virtual Machine (VM) instances from VMware to SUSE Virtualisation - driven by significant savings in licensing and subscription costs, and futureproofing the platform's viability and affordability. The move also addresses a range of technical challenges CT was facing, including migrating production VM workloads with minimal downtime, supporting multi-tenant hosting environments and maintaining enterprise-grade availability and resilience. Central to this has been establishing a repeatable migration framework capable of scaling across hundreds of customer environments. By adopting SUSE Virtualisation, CT and its customers gain access to an enterprise-grade platform built on open source technologies, reducing reliance on proprietary licensing while maintaining the availability and resilience their environments demand. The solution lowers long-term infrastructure costs, reduces vendor lock-in by transitioning to a more open platform and enables customers to modernise workloads without significant disruption to business operations. "What Centorrino Technologies has built is a strong example of how partners and end users are responding to the shifting economics of enterprise virtualisation," said Ben Henshall, General Manager, Australia and New Zealand at SUSE. "Organisations are actively looking for alternatives, and we're seeing that demand grow across both our partner and customer base. This migration demonstrates what's possible when you combine open, enterprise-grade technology with a partner that knows how to deliver it at scale." CT serves government agencies, defence and intelligence sectors, financial and professional service organisations, healthcare providers and schools throughout Australia. For these customers, having a locally owned and run managed service provider that delivers sovereignty, commercial certainty, security and service continuity is critical for Australian government agencies and businesses alike. "The licensing cost increases from major technology vendors create real pressure for customers, but also the opportunity for change. We needed a platform that offered long-term commercial certainty without compromising on enterprise-grade capability, that ensures our customers keep control of their infrastructure and their costs, rather than being exposed to a single vendor's pricing decisions. SUSE Virtualisation gave us that, and it has allowed us to build a migration practice that solves a problem we are seeing right across the market," said Nicholas Iacobucci, Chief Technology Officer at Centorrino Technologies. With more than 20 years' experience delivering a suite of professional services such as infrastructure assessments, migration projects, cloud modernisation initiatives and managed hosting offerings, CT has bolstered its capability with a well-established process to support other organisations seeking to move across to SUSE at scale. CT plans to expand adoption of SUSE technologies across its hosted infrastructure platform and customer environments, building repeatable migration methodologies, operational processes and managed service offerings designed to support enterprise organisations considering large-scale migration programmes throughout Australia.

SUSE empowers India's Digital sovereignty with open source infrastructure, driving resilient operations and Enterprise AI at scale. Co-engineered AI platforms, multi-cloud orchestration, and an increased focus on providing architectural freedom helps Indian organizations navigate the operational shift from AI experimentation to full production. SUSE, a global leader in enterprise open source software, today kicked off its flagship SUSE Summit Mumbai 2026 under the theme Shape Your Resilient Future. At the event, SUSE unveiled its strategic roadmap to help Indian enterprises navigate rapid digital transformation, comply with evolving national data policies, and scale AI workloads with complete architectural freedom. Supporting India's Digital Resilience and CXO Priorities Findings from SUSE's Navigating Digital Resilience 2026 report reveal that 62% of respondents in India identify digital sovereignty as a strategic priority in which they are actively investing, well above the global average of 52%. Furthermore, while 90% of Indian IT leaders report being prepared to increase AI budgets, organizations are simultaneously navigating the "execution gap" between this ambition and the deployment of the secure, sovereign technology foundations required to support it. India's digital landscape is also accelerating rapidly. SUSE is actively supporting this growth, for example by providing the open infrastructure necessary for the IndiaAI Mission's compute capabilities and the Digital Public Infrastructure of the India Stack. Through built-in zero-trust security and verifiable SBOMs, SUSE ensures enterprises remain compliant with the DPDP Act and CERT-In mandates while empowering India's massive developer community to turn upstream innovation into production-ready applications. To further help organizations bridge the gap between AI experimentation and production scale, SUSE highlighted its comprehensive open source portfolio. Firstly, via SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA: which features NVIDIA AI Enterprise inside SUSE's secure governance layer, drastically reducing deployment timelines from months to days. This provides a practical foundation for Private Enterprise AI, helping with total data governance and strict adherence to digital sovereignty requirements. By keeping intelligence firmly within customer-controlled boundaries, it delivers a fast-track to value while establishing predictable, long-term cost control and ultimate deployment flexibility. Secondly, SUSE highlighted how its integrated, sovereign open infrastructure portfolio is engineered for complete multi-cloud preparedness and architectural control. By unifying its Linux, Cloud-Native, Edge, AI, Telco, and SAP offerings, SUSE provides an interlocking platform that secures data and workloads across diverse environments. This approach - powered by the mission-critical stability of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), unified multi-cloud orchestration via SUSE Rancher Prime, and air-gapped protection through SUSE Edge - empowers organizations to maintain absolute jurisdictional control and operational resilience, regardless of where their data resides. Executive Quotes "Moving AI from pilot to production scale isn't about becoming dependent on third-party APIs. Organizations fundamentally need to own their intelligence. True operational resilience relies on real architectural choice: where your models run, who inspects the code, and who controls the data, backed by predictable cost control and freedom from external access limits. It's about making AI safe and secure, for the future demands industry-wide collaboration. That's why we're working alongside peers in the Open Secure AI Alliance, bringing the true spirit of open source community to enterprise AI security and safety. Combined with our SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA offering, we are giving enterprises a fast, secure path from experimentation to production - without forcing a trade-off between innovation speed and sovereignty," said Rhys Oxenham, VP and General Manager of AI, SUSE. "India is at the epicenter of global technological transformation, fueled by a dynamic developer community and visionary digital mandates. However, moving from AI pilot to production requires true architectural sovereignty. Whether it is a BFSI institution navigating strict DPDP compliance mandates, a public sector entity scaling sovereign compute for the IndiaAI Mission, or a manufacturer driving resilient 24/7 operations: they all require the freedom to innovate without dependency. At SUSE, we empower these organizations to build resilient, sovereign strategies through open infrastructure. Ensuring that as organizations scale, they retain absolute control of their IT destiny," said Marshal Correia, Country Manager for India & SAARC, SUSE.