TechValidate Research on HPE Hybrid IT Solutions

Introduction

This case study of a global 500 telecommunications services 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 requirement:
  • Allow them to have a uniform way of interacting with resources

Use Case

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

• Agrees the following HPE OneView feature provided the most value:
  • Single view dashboard for their operations
• Is using HPE OneView to manage the following product:
  • HPE ProLiant DL
• Purchased HPE OneView over the following vendor:
  • RISC based server

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with HPE OneView:

• Recommends HPE OneView to their peers because:
  • Faster to deploy, update and provision infrastructure
  • Ease of implementation
• Agrees HPE OneView stands out from other solutions in the market because of:
  • Wide range of partnerships & integrations
  • Stability and scalability
• Realized the following benefits with HPE OneView:
  • Reduced the time required for deployment, provisioning and upgrading infrastructure
  • Reduced the IT spend through automation of tasks
• Realized the following improvements with HPE OneView:
  • Reduced time required for deployment, provisioning, and upgrading: > 50%
  • Increased IT staff productivity through more efficient infrastructure management: > 50%
  • Reduced the number of errors due to automation through templates: > 50%
  • Increased the number of servers managed across multiple locations with same staffing levels: > 50%
  • Improved application availability: > 50%

Introduction

This case study of Afia is based on a June 2016 survey of HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

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
  • 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:

• Improved performance by 50% to 75% with HPE SimpliVity.
• Realized a capacity savings of 50:1 to 100:1 with HPE SimpliVity.
• Deployed new workloads, including allocating compute and storage resources, and configuring data protection policies, in the following amount of time:
  • After HPE SimpliVity: up to 1 day
  • Before HPE SimpliVity: 1 day – 1 week
• Realized value in 1 week to 1 month after the deployment of HPE SimpliVity.
• Ranks the value of the following HPE SimpliVity features:
  • Hyperconverged appliance: highly valuable
  • VM-centric management via vCenter: highly valuable
  • Inline dedupe, compression: extremely valuable
  • Integrated data protection: extremely valuable