Case Study: Sicoob achieves $2.5M in annual cost savings with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z

Sicoob - Customer Case Study

Sicoob, one of Brazil’s largest cooperative financial institutions, was struggling to scale its fast-growing digital banking services while keeping core banking systems highly available and cost-effective. Its distributed x86 server environment was becoming expensive to manage, driving up power, cooling, and infrastructure costs as demand and transaction volumes increased. Suse helped Sicoob address these pressures with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z and SUSE Manager on IBM z Systems.

Suse enabled Sicoob to consolidate more than 300 physical servers onto IBM mainframes, manage over 600 virtual machines, and automate administration with built-in tools like YaST and AutoYaST. The results were significant: Sicoob cut check clearance processing time by 25%, doubled daily check image handling to two million, and reduced mainframe core usage by 40%. Overall, Suse helped Sicoob lower annual operational costs by USD 2.5 million, including more than USD 1.5 million in electricity savings and an additional USD 1 million after upgrading to a newer Suse Linux version.

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Claudio Kitayama

IT Infrastructure Analyst