TechValidate Research on HPE Hybrid IT Solutions

Introduction

This case study of Nth Generation is based on a March 2019 survey of HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays solutions customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays solutions:

• Addressed the following requirements with HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays:
  • Need for high performance
  • Need for flexible and scalable capacity

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays solutions that the surveyed company uses:

• Consolidates the following workloads or applications on their HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays:
  • Development and testing
  • Databases
  • Server virtualization
  • VDI
  • Email / collaboration
• Uses the following apps or database environments in conjunction with HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays:
  • Oracle
  • VMware
  • Microsoft SQL
  • MySQL
  • File Services
  • VDI
• HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays was chosen over or replaced the following solutions:
  • Dell/EMC: replaced
  • NetApp: replaced
  • Pure Storage: replaced

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays solutions:

• Rates the value of the following capabilities offered by HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays:
  • ability to predict and resolve problems (HPE InfoSight): very valuable
  • prescriptive forecasts into capacity, performance, and bandwidth requirements (HPE InfoSight): very valuable
  • replication and integration with leading backup software: very valuable
  • holistic view across the infrastructure stack: very valuable
  • data encryption and secure over-the-wire protection: very valuable
  • ability to migrate data between all-flash and hybrid flash: very valuable
  • ability to migrate data between on-premises and cloud: valuable
• Reports the following as strengths of HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays over other storage vendors:
  • Predictive Analytics with HPE InfoSight is a unique differentiator
  • Allows storage of more application data per TB of flash
  • Nimble Storage reliability (guaranteed 99.9999% availability) is best in class
  • Timeless storage features and benefits for better value over time
• Improved the following metrics since using HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays:
  • improved the time required for Performance troubleshooting: >75%
  • improved the time required for Storage provisioning: >75%
  • improved the time required for Capacity planning/design (predictive analytics): >75%
  • improved the time required for Provisioning upgrades: >75%
  • improved the time to respond to customer requests: >75%
  • saw an improvement in performance (IOPs): >75%
  • reduced their power / cooling / rack space: >75%
  • increased their managed capacity per admin: >75%
  • reduced their unplanned or planned downtime for improved availability: >75%
  • improved their cost per performance: >75%
• Agrees with the following statement:
  • their experience with HPE since Nimble became part of HPE has been positive: strongly agree
  • they continue to have a productive customer support experience since Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s acquisition of Nimble Storage: strongly agree
  • the website and product information experience under HPE is better than what they experienced with Nimble before the acquisition of Nimble by HPE: strongly agree

Introduction

This case study of Promesa is based on an August 2019 survey of HPE SimpliVity customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select HPE SimpliVity:

• Selected HPE SimpliVity because they had a data center migration or consolidation initiative.

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of HPE SimpliVity that the surveyed company uses:

• Uses HPE SimpliVity for the following:
  • Infrastructure modernization / technology refresh
  • Data migration
  • Test/Dev and QA
• Runs the following application types on HPE SimpliVity:
  • SAP
• Rates how valuable the following HPE SimpliVity capabilities were in the selection process:
  • HPE SimpliVity being a single trusted vendor for global support for their entire stack: highly valuable
  • HPE SimpliVity’s reliability, serviceability, and availability, backed by a comprehensive warranty: extremely valuable
  • HPE SimpliVity’s future-proof design: extremely valuable
  • HPE SimpliVity’s pointnext service and support offerings: extremely valuable
  • HPE SimpliVity’s flexible consumption and financing: highly valuable

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with HPE SimpliVity:

• Improved performance by >75% since deploying HPE SimpliVity.
• Realized efficiency benefits for capacity savings of 50:1 to 100:1 since deploying HPE SimpliVity.
• Estimates how long it takes to deploy new workloads, including allocating compute and storage resources, and configuring data protection policies:
  • After using SimpliVity: 1 day – 1 week
• Saw value in 1 to 3 months after the deployment of HPE SimpliVity.
• Rates how valuable the following HPE SimpliVity features were in the selection process:
  • integrated data protection: extremely valuable
  • inline dedupe/compression: extremely valuable
  • VM-centric management via vCenter: valuable
  • Hyperconverged infrastructure with HPE ProLiant DL380: valuable
  • globally federated management: extremely valuable
• Rates their satisfaction based on their support experience based on how the outcome addressed their business need:
  • Support experience with initial deployment delivered by HPE (remote): very satisfied
  • Support experience with initial deployment delivered by HPE (onsite): satisfied
  • Support experience with initial deployment delivered by a partner: satisfied
  • Support experience with initial deployment delivered by a trained customer: satisfied
  • Support experience with software upgrades (hypervisor and/or OmniStack s/w): satisfied
  • Support experience with a majority of cases and incidents with HPE SimpliVity: satisfied
  • Support experience relating to having easy access to knowledgebase, support portal, and forums: satisfied