Case Study: Dundee City Council achieves a stable, cost-efficient, and flexible Linux platform with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Dundee City Council - Customer Case Study

Dundee City Council, the municipal administration for Scotland’s fourth largest city, needed a way to reduce IT infrastructure size and complexity while keeping business-critical systems reliable and within budget. To support server virtualization and vendor-certified applications across mainframe and x86 environments, the Council standardized on Suse Linux Enterprise Server, including SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z.

Suse implemented a stable, secure, flexible platform that now spans more than 150 Linux environments, with about 70 to 100 virtual servers on its IBM mainframes and roughly 100 x86 instances. The result was a smaller, more efficient infrastructure that replaced at least 50 under-utilized x86 machines, lowered power and cooling needs, improved supportability, and helped Dundee City Council cut costs and carbon emissions while continuing to expand Linux use.

Dundee City Council

Tim Simpson

IT Support Manager