Case Study: The Burton Corporation achieves 99.999% uptime and 80% lower server costs with SUSE

The Burton Corporation - Customer Case Study

The Burton Corporation, the world’s leading manufacturer of board sports equipment and accessories, needed a more flexible and reliable IT platform to support its 24/7 global business. Its older HP-UX environment was costly to maintain, required expensive hardware, and suffered from frequent downtime, especially as the company prepared to upgrade SAP and Oracle applications. Burton chose Suse and Suse Linux Enterprise Server for its SAP and Oracle environment.

Suse helped Burton migrate mission-critical systems to Dell servers running Suse Linux Enterprise Server, including SAP ERP, Business Intelligence, CRM, Enterprise Portal, and Oracle applications. The move delivered major gains: overall server-related costs fell by 80%, uptime reached 99.999%, power consumption dropped by 30%, and administrative time and costs were reduced by 40%.

The Burton Corporation

Bill York

Senior Linux Administrato