SUSE Appliance Toolkit

Making it easy to build and maintain appliances—for enterprises and ISVs.

What are software appliances?

Software appliances are virtual machines that have one task: serving a particular application. A software appliance is a preconfigured disk image that contains an application, middleware, database, and minimal operating system. Software appliances can be deployed directly on a server as a hard drive image. Alternatively, appliances can be packaged as a virtual machine to be loaded on a hypervisor. This subset of software appliances is typically called a virtual appliance.

What is SUSE Appliance Toolkit?

SUSE Appliance Toolkit is a collection of tools designed to make building, updating and configuring appliances fast and easy. You can securely build and deploy software appliances for physical, virtual or cloud environments in minutes instead of hours or days. And SUSE Appliance Toolkit will ensure that you maintain full control over your deployed software appliance.

What benefits will I gain from SUSE Appliance Toolkit?

SUSE Appliance Toolkit dramatically improves the efficiency of deploying and maintaining applications. You can quickly get started creating a robust, scalable product and know that the right elements are in place and working together. This reduces setup, support and maintenance costs. SUSE Appliance Toolkit accelerates time to value with greater management control and more software deployment features.

How will you benefit?

ISV:

• Customize the OS for your application
  
• Simplify software deployments
  
• Shorten your sales cycle and accelerate your time to market
  
• Lower support and maintenance costs
  
• Deploy into new markets and grow revenue
  
• Maintain control over deployed appliances easily and remotely

IT Departments:

• Mass customize your Linux
  
• Easily build appliance to reduce your deployment costs and time
  
• Simplify application management and enhance security
  
• Leverage your Linux investment
  
• Deploy .NET applications across platforms

How do I get it?

For ISVs:
SUSE Appliance Toolkit is part of the SUSE Appliance Program. Learn more about the SUSE Appliance Program and how to get started.

For IT departments:
SUSE Appliance Toolkit is available for purchase. Contact a sales representative for more information.