Case Study: Office Depot reduces IT costs and simplifies its environment with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Office Depot - Customer Case Study

Office Depot, one of the world’s largest e-commerce retailers, needed to simplify and standardize a highly complex global IT environment running on multiple platforms while maintaining 24/7 uptime, security, and performance. To address this, the company chose Suse’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for its enterprise applications and infrastructure.

Suse helped Office Depot run mission-critical workloads on an open Linux platform, including databases, middleware, Oracle RAC, PeopleSoft HR, and payroll, while also consolidating hardware with VMware virtualization. The result was lower hardware, power, cooling, and IT costs, with Office Depot estimating the Suse solution paid for itself in the first year and delivering 100% ROI on its Linux investment.

Office Depot

Tim Toews

Senior Vice President and CIO