IDC Study Reveals SUSE Rancher Prime Delivers $3.4M in Annual Benefits

As IT modernization intensifies, enterprises need a resilient and adaptable foundation to rapidly develop and deploy applications across on-premises, multi-cloud and edge environments. Managing this complexity can be a constant challenge, with new demands emerging and IT costs continually rising.

SUSE Rancher Prime with Virtualization cuts through the complexity. The enterprise platform provides a single management plane for virtual machines (VMs) and containers, driving cloud native transformation across any environment. With centralized management and automation, SUSE Rancher Prime reduces costs and frees up resources, allowing teams to focus on delivering value instead of managing systems.

IDC recently found that organizations using SUSE Rancher Prime with Virtualization achieve benefits worth an annual average of $3.4 million, leading to a three-year ROI of 258%.* SUSE delivers this value through IT cost savings, staff productivity gains, performance improvements and business enablement. Discover how to accelerate your cloud native transformation without limits.

The Rising Costs of IT Modernization

Today’s IT environments are more diverse than ever. Organizations are juggling on-premises infrastructure, public and private clouds, and edge deployments, all while trying to keep pace with the relentless demand for new applications and services. This complexity creates challenges:

• Maintaining Legacy Systems: Aging infrastructure can be a drain on resources, requiring costly maintenance and hindering agility.
• Managing Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments: Each environment comes with its own set of tools and management complexities, leading to increased overhead and potential security risks.
• Skills Gap: Finding and retaining skilled personnel to manage containerized environments and Kubernetes can be a significant challenge.
• Security and Compliance: Ensuring consistent security and compliance across diverse environments is a constant battle.

SUSE Rancher Prime with Virtualization provides a cost-effective solution to these challenges. It provides a centralized cloud native platform to manage all your workloads, regardless of where they reside, while simplifying operations and maximizing ROI.

Slashing IT Costs with SUSE Rancher Prime with Virtualization

In a recent study by IDC, organizations using SUSE Rancher Prime with Virtualization reported significant cost reductions:

• 35% reduction in overall IT costs by replacing costlier vendor solutions and consolidating tool licenses.*
• 27% reduction in the total number of servers, leading to lower hardware and maintenance expenses.*

The reduction in servers translates to a significant one-time cost savings of $517,156 with SUSE Rancher Prime with Virtualization.*

One media organization interviewed by IDC shared, “During the evaluation process we looked at other vendors but found SUSE Rancher Prime with Virtualization to be more competitive with lower licensing costs and better flexibility.”*

By reducing server expenses and consolidating platforms, enterprises can maximize their resources while minimizing IT costs, providing a clear path to achieving significant ROI.

Empowering IT Staff for Greater Efficiency

Beyond direct cost savings, SUSE Rancher Prime with Virtualization empowers IT staff to work more efficiently and effectively — ultimately delivering more value.

With increased visibility and automation from SUSE Rancher Prime, teams gain agility and can respond to changing needs with speed and precision. IDC found that IT infrastructure teams became 51% more efficient after implementing the enterprise platform.* SUSE Rancher Prime with Virtualization decreases the complexity of tedious, time-consuming tasks for these valuable teams. This translates to significant time savings in critical tasks:

• 47% faster securing
• 39% faster patching
• 32% faster provisioning
• 24% faster configuring*

Similarly, security teams experience a 24% boost in efficiency, and developers see a 28% increase in productivity using SUSE Rancher Prime with Virtualization.* 

By automating tedious tasks and providing real-time insights, SUSE Rancher Prime frees your teams to focus on strategic initiatives that drive business value.

Boosting Performance and Mitigating Risk

Downtime is the enemy of productivity and profitability. SUSE Rancher Prime with Virtualization helps organizations minimize downtime and improve operational resilience. IDC’s research shows a 61% reduction in unplanned downtime and a 49% improvement in MTTR (mean time to repair) with SUSE.*  

Compliance teams also benefit, becoming 24% more productive thanks to real-time compliance reports, policy standardization and automated monitoring from SUSE Security.* These performance and risk benefits translate directly to cost savings by reducing downtime and its associated costs and by enabling faster issue resolution. Additionally, SUSE Rancher Prime increases business agility by ensuring your IT environment is always ready to adapt to changing needs.

Accelerating Business Outcomes

SUSE Rancher Prime with Virtualization not only optimizes IT operations but also drives positive business outcomes. Quicker deployments mean you can bring products and services to market faster, capturing new opportunities and gaining a competitive edge. 

As one technology company told IDC, “SUSE Rancher Prime with Virtualization supports faster, high-quality application releases, which means products going to market faster and that they are more stable and scaled to meet customer demand.”*  This improved scalability ensures your infrastructure can readily accommodate growth and meet increasing customer demands.

The ROI of SUSE Rancher Prime with Virtualization

SUSE Rancher Prime with Virtualization delivers a compelling return on investment. Through IT cost savings, staff productivity gains, performance improvements and business enablement, IDC projects that interviewed organizations will achieve benefits worth an annual average of $3.4 million, which result in a three-year ROI of 258%.*

Download the full IDC paper to learn how SUSE Rancher Prime with Virtualization can transform your cloud native journey with business value.

* IDC Business Value White Paper, sponsored by SUSE, The Business Value of SUSE Rancher Prime with Virtualization, February 2025 | IDC #US52704924