To support the requirements of mission-critical solutions with the flexibility of virtualized environments and the security, scalability and predictable performance of Unix solutions, SUSE and Unisys Corporation(NYSE:UIS) have announced their partnership to offer enterprise customers worldwide the benefits of Forward! by Unisys. The new platform, when combined with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, will provide an extremely flexible and cost-effective environment for running critical business applications and workloads for Unix migration, Cloud and Big Data.
Nils Brauckmann, President and GM of SUSE, said, The next phase of our strategic alliance with Unisys will bring even greater benefits to organizations needing a cost-effective Linux platform for mission-critical workloads in the cloud, managed services or anything previously run in a Unix environment.
Dominick Cavuoto, President, Unisys Technology, Consulting and Integration Solutions stated, -SUSE shares Unisys’ vision for the evolution of mission-critical computing, and we are pleased to have them as a key partner in the breakthrough Forward! Initiative. Our alliance with SUSE will be key for supporting SAP and other strategic enterprise applications for clients on the Forward! platform.- said Dominick Cavuoto, President, Unisys Technology, Consulting and Integration Solutions.
This architecture, based on Linux and the Intel x86 platform, is expected to bring unique enterprise-level security, availability, scalability and predictable performance to address key IT challenges facing enterprises today.