Centorrino Technologies is moving thousands of VMware VMs to SUSE Virtualisation, citing lower licensing costs and reduced vendor lock-in as key drivers.
Centorrino Technologies (CT) has selected SUSE Virtualisation to replace VMware across its hosted infrastructure platform, with thousands of virtual machine (VM) instances set to move to the open-source-based platform.
The migration is driven by significant savings in licensing and subscription costs, alongside the need to maintain the platform’s long-term affordability and viability. The SUSE platform has already been running in production and is now ready for rollout to CT’s customers.
CT has built a repeatable migration framework to support hundreds of customer environments while addressing production workload migration with minimal downtime, multi-tenant hosting, and enterprise-grade availability and resilience.
Built on open-source technologies, SUSE Virtualisation is expected to reduce dependence on proprietary licensing, lower long-term infrastructure costs and reduce vendor lock-in without compromising enterprise requirements.
“Organisations are actively looking for alternatives, and we’re seeing that demand grow across both our partner and customer base. This migration demonstrates what’s possible when you combine open, enterprise-grade technology with a partner that knows how to deliver it at scale,” said Ben Henshall, General Manager, Australia and New Zealand at SUSE.
Nicholas Iacobucci, Chief Technology Officer at CT, said rising licensing costs from major technology vendors are creating pressure and an opportunity for change. He said SUSE Virtualisation provides long-term commercial certainty while helping customers retain control of infrastructure and costs.
CT plans to expand SUSE adoption across its hosted infrastructure and customer environments and support other Australian organisations undertaking large-scale migrations from proprietary virtualisation platforms.
