Marketing description

Highly scalable data storage that's easy on the budget! While dollars per gigabyte declines about 25 percent each year, flat IT budgets can't cover the estimated 40 percent annual growth in data. SUSE Enterprise Storage, a scalable and resilient software-based storage solution, solves the problem. It lets you build cost-efficient and highly scalable data storage using commodity, off-the-shelf servers and disk drives.

Key selling points

• Reduce your capital expenditures (CAPEX)
• Reduce your operational expenditures (OPEX)
• Adapt quickly as your business needs evolve
• Keep up with explosive growth with software-defined storage

Product features

• Reduce your capital expenditures (CAPEX)
  SUSE Enterprise Storage solutions provide significant CAPEX savings compared with traditional enterprise storage arrays and appliances, because you can use commodity off-the-shelf servers and disk drives.
• Reduce your operational expenditures (OPEX)
  Traditional storage solutions are expensive to scale in capacity or performance, driving OPEX costs higher. With SUSE Enterprise Storage you have unlimited scalability and it even manages itself - very OPEX friendly.
• Adapt quickly as your business needs evolve
  SUSE Enterprise Storage equips you to be highly responsive to emerging needs. Its block device interface enables you to rapidly boot new virtual machines with fault-tolerant, highly available, enterprise disk storage.
• Keep up with explosive growth with software-defined storage
  SUSE Enterprise Storage, powered by Ceph, provides software-defined storage that lets you keep up with the explosive growth of digital data without crippling your budget.