TechValidate Research on HPE Hybrid IT Solutions

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise health care company is based on a November 2016 survey of HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

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

• Purchased HPE SimpliVity as a result of a capacity purchase/upgrade of existing infrastructure that led to an overall platform review.
• Prior to deploying HPE SimpliVity, they found the management of multiple solutions and vendors to be a burden.

Use Case

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

• Uses HPE SimpliVity in the following way:
  • Infrastructure modernization / technology refresh
• Runs the following types of applications on HPE SimpliVity:
  • Microsoft Exchange
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • VDI
  • Industry-specific application (e.g., 911 system, healthcare application, legal case management, CAD/CAM, etc.)

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure:

• Deployed new workloads, including allocating compute and storage resources, and configuring data protection policies, in the following amount of time:
  • After HPE SimpliVity: 1 day – 1 week
  • Before HPE SimpliVity: 1 day – 1 week
• Realized value in 3 to 6 months after the deployment of HPE SimpliVity.
• Ranks the value of the following HPE SimpliVity features:
  • Hyperconverged appliance: valuable
  • VM-centric management via vCenter: highly valuable
  • Inline dedupe, compression: highly valuable
  • Integrated data protection: highly valuable

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 metals & mining company is based on a January 2017 survey of HPE OneView customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

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

• Uses HPE OneView to meet the following requirements:
  • Allow them to have a uniform way of interacting with resources
  • Enable them to reduce/consolidate the number of other system admin tools

Use Case

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

• Agrees the following HPE OneView features provided the most value:
  • Single view dashboard for their operations
  • Dynamic interactive visualizations of their configuration
  • Intraoperative ability with virtualization, automation and facilities management tools
  • Template based approach to provisioning, updating and integrating servers, storage and networking
• Is using HPE OneView to manage the following product:
  • HPE BladeSystem c-Class
• Purchased HPE OneView over the following vendor:
  • HPE OneView was our first choice

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with HPE OneView:

• Recommends HPE OneView to their peers because:
  • It is the most straight-forward usage management tool available
  • Intuitive ease of use
  • Faster to deploy, update and provision infrastructure
• Agrees HPE OneView stands out from other solutions in the market because of:
  • Wide range of partnerships & integrations
  • Stability and scalability
  • High-quality performance
• Realized the following benefits with HPE OneView:
  • Reduced the time required for deployment, provisioning and upgrading infrastructure
  • Improved visibility of status of infrastructure being managed
• Realized the following improvements with HPE OneView:
  • Reduced time required for deployment, provisioning, and upgrading: 26-50%
  • Increased IT staff productivity through more efficient infrastructure management: 26-50%
  • Reduced the number of errors due to automation through templates: > 50%