SUSE Recognized as a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management
How flexibility and choice power customer success
At SUSE, we are thrilled to announce that Gartner, Inc., has positioned us in the Leaders’ quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for Container Management” for our Rancher Prime product. This recognition is more than an accolade–it’s a validation of our commitment to driving customer success. For Rancher Prime, our true measure of impact comes from the incredible outcomes our customers achieve with our platform.
For our customers, this leadership means they are partnered with a provider that not only understands their needs but also delivers solutions that propel them to their strategic goals. SUSE’s strengths include heterogeneity and its history of supporting multiple container management distributions, which helps customers avoid vendor lock-in.
Learn more about why SUSE is recognized as a leader in the container management space by downloading the Gartner Magic Quadrant report. Click here to access your copy or watch our on-demand webinar about SUSE’s recognition.
Our success is defined by yours
The real measure of Rancher Prime’s success lies in the outcomes achieved by our customers. Leading enterprises have harnessed Rancher Prime to drive digital transformation and reduce complexity and time to value. We strive to provide a holistic enterprise platform that provides a complete suite of products and services tailored to enterprise needs, with our core philosophy to provide everything you need and enable you to choose the best technology for your business without restrictions.
Rancher Prime’s rise to the top of the container management landscape is driven by its comprehensive approach to platform building, which allows all skill levels to self-serve resources rather than bogging down infrastructure teams. This versatility allows organizations to confidently manage their Kubernetes deployments, knowing that Rancher Prime reduces the complexities of modern IT infrastructure, reducing the skills gap in Kubernetes and container management.
Let’s examine real customer success stories to learn how customers leverage the key capabilities that make Rancher Prime a global leader in container management.
Leading the way at the edge and across heterogeneous infrastructure
Rancher Prime excels in managing Edge environments and Heterogeneous Infrastructure, offering Kubernetes (RKE2 and K3s) that can run on resource-constrained hardware and enable cloud native OS management with SLE Micro. RKE2, as a certified Kubernetes distribution for the U.S. government, further enhances its reliability and security, making it ideal for government agencies and enterprises that require stringent compliance. The platform’s ability to onboard devices from data center to edge locations ensures consistent management and security across all environments. Moreover, Rancher Prime’s flexibility in managing Kubernetes across hyperscalers and on-premises environments, combined with its support for various CNCF-certified Kubernetes distributions, positions it as the go-to solution for organizations with diverse infrastructure needs.
- Hyundai gears up for All-Connected Cars with SUSE (APAC)
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- “We have achieved an exceptional 99.5% service level agreement for services running Kubernetes managed through Rancher Prime, which speaks volumes about the reliability and efficiency of the system.” –Head of the Car Cloud Platform Development team Hyundai Motor Company
- BMW creates a continuum between cloud and edge for enhanced data management and quality assurance (EMEA)
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- “It’s not about using VMs in the public cloud, it’s about using the technical platforms, using the functional platforms, and creating this continuum between cloud and edge. It’s not cloud, and edge is somewhere else. Cloud is also not somebody else’s computer. It’s a usage and operation model. You need to change the mindset for that.” –Andreas Pöschl, Senior Solutions Architect BMW AG
- Danelec establishes a baseline environment with 75% less time and effort than the competition (EMEA)
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- “Rancher Prime lets us manage everything that is underneath, all the way down to the bare metal, or the edge,” –Hans Zenth, Technical Project Manager, R&D Danelec
Excellence in cloud infrastructure
Rancher Prime’s leadership in Cloud Infrastructure is marked by its broad support for public cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, DigitalOcean and Alibaba. The platform simplifies configuration and management, offering both GUI and command-line/API options to ensure flexibility and ease of use. With built-in support for specialized compute and hardware like ARM processors and NVIDIA GPUs, Rancher Prime provides robust solutions for a wide range of workloads. The platform’s reliability is further enhanced by fault management capabilities that span multiple regions and cloud providers, ensuring high availability and security.
- Toyota Materials Handling increases pace of troubleshooting by up to 87% (AMER)
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- “Toyota is about lean management, and having the ability to spend cycles on other priorities instead of on a manually built system is indeed a big win. It used to take us hours or even days to work on an outage, but we haven’t had to do that since implementing Rancher Prime.” –Michael Nichols, Information Security Architect, Toyota Material Handling
- IDC Frontier cuts time to develop new services in half – APAC (Japan)
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- “With Kubernetes and Rancher Prime, we can complete the same work in less than a year — more than 50% faster. In our industry, continuous innovation is vital for success and through our partnership with SUSE, we’re staying one step ahead of the market.” –Mr. Takuya Fujishiro, IDC Frontier
- Arm deploys Rancher Prime stack to 2,500 engineers for company-wide DevOps productivity (EMEA)
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- “Our engineers on site were quite happy. We thought, great, let’s move forward. And so, now we’re deploying the full Rancher stack. And it was going to be for the 450 engineers; it’s now going to be accessible to 2,500 engineers.” –Andrew Wafaa, Senior Director of Software Communities and fellow Arm
Data center infrastructure: Optimizing performance on-premises
In addition to cloud infrastructure, Rancher Prime seamlessly integrates with existing data center infrastructure, offering support for automated VM hosting with platforms like VMware, Nutanix and our solution, Harvester. The platform’s ability to securely provision bare metal environments and its compatibility with various operating systems, including SLE, Red Hat and Ubuntu, make it a versatile choice for organizations looking to maximize their on-premises resources. Additionally, Rancher Prime’s support for existing storage systems through CSI and Longhorn ensures seamless data management and high-performance storage integration.
- ECKD saves up to 95% of deployment time through automation, fortifying reliability (EMEA)
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- “We initially looked at traditional virtualization infrastructure and HCI solutions from other vendors, but Harvester’s price-to-performance ratio was simply unbeatable. We also like the fact that Harvester and Rancher Prime work together perfectly and that we have only one point of contact for support issues.” —Sven Meyer, Head of Application Hosting Services, ECKD GmbH
- Trade-Van modernizes and accelerates Taiwan’s international trade systems with SUSE solutions (APAC)
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- “We can easily separate technologies to ensure that each application has the resources it needs without impacting any other application. It’s much easier than trying to manage dependencies in a virtual machine environment, and we also have less hardware-related dependency. “ –Chengfeng Wu, Software Engineering Department Manager, Trade-Van
- Pediatric Hospital Bambino Gesu enables rapid upskilling of internal teams (EMEA)
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- “Rancher Prime gives us support through every part of the Kubernetes lifecycle. Moreover, the solution makes it easy to split out our application environments so that we can isolate elements such as IT security and manage them separately.” –Flavio Poletti, IT Security Manager, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù
Mastery in managed provisioning, updates and cluster fleet management
Rancher Prime’s managed provisioning and updates capabilities are second to none, offering full lifecycle cluster management through Rancher Manager. The platform simplifies upgrades and provisioning, allowing organizations to automate and streamline their operations. With Fleet’s ability to manage large-scale, multi-cluster environments, Rancher Prime ensures consistency and control across the entire infrastructure. Additionally, the platform’s support for hosted solutions and integration with third-party applications, like Kubecost for cost management, further enhances its value proposition.
- ABAX reduces recovery time by 90% and 75% reduction in manned support (EMEA)
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- “As we extend our leadership position in Europe, it’s never been more important to put containers at the heart of our growth strategy. The flexibility and scale that Rancher Prime brings is the obvious solution for high-growth companies like ours.” –Thomas Ornell, IT Infrastructure Engineer, ABAX
- STRADVISION accelerates autonomous driving innovation with Rancher Prime (APAC)
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- “…operating Kubernetes in its open source state required a lot of effort and expertise from many IT professionals, which led to an increase in IT operational costs. Through Rancher Prime, we were able to reduce disruption, respond faster to customer requests, maximize efficiency, contribute to cost savings, and eventually deliver greater value to customers.” –Eunchul Yeo, Team leader, STRADVISION
- AKDB ensures nearly 100% availability for citizens, businesses and government agencies (EMEA)
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- “With Rancher Prime and Kubernetes, we were able to scale the infrastructure so that it could cope with very high-performance requirements. As a result, several million applications were received and processed without delays ahead of the state elections.” –Peter Köhlmann, Team Leader DevOps, Anstalt für Kommunale Datenverarbeitung in Bayern (AKDB)
- Learn more about AKDB’s story
Empowering platform engineering and enhancing application platform capabilities
Rancher Prime is a powerful tool for Platform Engineering, providing a toolkit that integrates existing infrastructure into a self-service experience. The platform’s App Collection offers certified open source components that can be easily deployed and managed, enhancing the developer experience. Rancher Prime’s advanced Application Platform Capabilities include support for load balancing, service mesh and secure supply chain management, ensuring that organizations can build, deploy and manage applications with confidence.
- OLB Bank accelerates environment setup by 99.5%, speeding up application deployment processes (EMEA)
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- “We designed the CI/CD pipelines that we’re using for deployments, and it’s fully automated in Rancher Prime. Red Hat OpenShift was trying to make us take a different approach that wouldn’t have been optimal for us, Rancher’s simple UI helped our team, mostly inexperienced with containers, to adapt without needing extensive training” –Tim Westphal, IT Director, OLB
- Hyundai gears up for All-Connected Cars with SUSE (APAC)
- “We have achieved an exceptional 99.5% service level agreement for services running Kubernetes managed through Rancher Prime, which speaks volumes about the reliability and efficiency of the system.” –Head of the Car Cloud Platform Development team Hyundai Motor Company
- Learn more about Hyundai and Rancher Prime
- Saque e Pague transforms and democratizes Brazil’s money flow with innovative banking solutions (LATAM)
- “What used to take us a month now takes just minutes, 99.9% faster. That’s the significant change we’ve seen. This agility not only saves substantial money but also reduces the need for extensive manpower. Tasks that once required many people and a lot of time can now be accomplished by a single person in far less time with Rancher Prime.” –Patrick Teixeira Mota, Data Center Senior Analyst, Saque e Pague
Explore more insights from industry leaders. Download the Gartner Magic Quadrant report here or watch the on-demand webinar about SUSE’s recognition.
Stay tuned for more insights and innovations from Rancher Prime—your partner in navigating the complex world of container management.
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