Case Study: Baldor Electric Company achieves lower IT costs, faster performance, and higher uptime with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z

Baldor Electric Company - Customer Case Study

Baldor Electric Company, a global manufacturer of industrial motors and related products, was growing rapidly and struggling with rising IT costs, complexity, and performance limits in its SAP environment. Its mission-critical applications needed faster response times, better availability, and a simpler way to support expansion across many plants and offices worldwide, prompting Baldor to evaluate SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z.

Suse implemented a virtualized IBM System z solution running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z, with z/VM and HiperSockets to consolidate workloads and improve speed and resiliency. The results were significant: Baldor cut hardware and software costs by 30%, administrative costs by 50%, and consolidated 90% of servers, while improving uptime by 90% and employee productivity by 34%; total computing cost fell from more than 2% of sales to less than 1%.

Baldor Electric Company

Eric Breuer

Manager, Large Systems