Intense competitive and economic pressures are driving businesses to scrutinize costs and find efficiencies that help to increase profitability. In light of budget constraints, IT departments are challenged to deliver core business application services while reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO). To put it simply, IT managers must determine new ways to do more with less. Many IT organizations seek efficiencies through cloud service delivery models that increase agility and utilization, simplify administration, and cut the complexity and cost of application delivery. To support emerging cloud-based solutions and critical business application workloads, IT architects are increasingly embracing Linux as the enterprise deployment standard. In many cases ITis standardizing on a single commercial Linux distribution because it can mean a significantreduction in operating expenses.