TechValidate Research on HPE Hybrid IT Solutions

Introduction

This case study of Finam Corporation is based on a March 2017 survey of HPE OneView customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

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

• Uses HPE OneView to meet the following requirements:
  • Simplify lifecycle operations by reducing time-consuming tasks
  • Make it faster to deploy infrastructure than in the past
  • 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 features provided the most value:
  • Single view dashboard for their operations
  • Global dashboard capabilities for large-scale deployments in multiple locations
  • 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

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with HPE OneView:

• Recommends HPE OneView to their peers because:
  • Intuitive ease of use
  • Faster to deploy, update and provision infrastructure
• 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
  • Reduced redundant tasks through automated provisioning
• Realized the following improvements with HPE OneView:
  • Reduced time required for deployment, provisioning, and upgrading: 11-25%
  • Increased IT staff productivity through more efficient infrastructure management: 11-25%
  • Reduced the number of errors due to automation through templates: 26-50%
  • Increased the number of servers managed across multiple locations with same staffing levels: 26-50%

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise financial services company is based on a January 2018 survey of HPE Synergy 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 Synergy:

• Addressed the following challenges after using HPE Synergy:

• Complex IT environment and processes with errors that keep IT staff in reactive fire-fighting mode

Use Case

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

• Uses or plans to use the following application workload with HPE Synergy:
  • Data management applications (Oracle, SQL)
• Rates the value of the following capabilities provided by HPE Synergy:
  • fluid pool of resources (which avoid over-provisioning of hardware): valuable
  • ability to provision and re-provision infrastructure quickly to meet ongoing needs of the business: valuable
  • ability to deploy OS/application stacks in just a few clicks: very valuable
  • ability to simplify daily IT operational tasks: valuable
  • ability to treat infrastructure as code (allowing internal SW development teams to deploy infrastructure quickly using DevOps tools): very valuable
• HPE Synergy was chosen over or replaced the following vendor solutions:
  • Dell/EMC

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with HPE Synergy:

• Reports the time spent deploying O/S and application workloads:
  • before using HPE Synergy: more than a month
  • after using HPE Synergy: 1 week – 1 month
• Saw improvements in the following areas since using HPE Synergy:
  • improved application performance: 26-50%
  • reduced the time spent provisioning and re-provisioning infrastructure: 51-75%
  • reduced the time spent deploying new operating systems and software applications: 26-50%
  • reduced the time spent performing ongoing software driver and firmware updates: 51-75%
  • reduced the cost per VM compared to public cloud: 26-50%
  • reduced the time spent standing up infrastructure by their DevOps teams: 1-25%