TechValidate Research on HPE Hybrid IT Solutions

Introduction

This case study of Liberty Group Limited is based on a March 2019 survey of HPE Synergy customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

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

• Addressed the following challenges with HPE Synergy:
  • Older c7000 had reached the end of life so needed new blade platform

Use Case

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

• Uses the following application workload/s with HPE Synergy:
  • Virtualization and VDI (eg. VMware, HyperV, Citrix, Oracle VM)
  • Data Management and Analytics (e.g. Oracle, SQL, SAS)
  • Business and Collaboration apps (e.g. SAP, Exchange, SharePoint)
  • Containers / DevOps Apps (Docker, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift)
• Rates the value of the following capabilities provided by HPE Synergy:
  • One infrastructure for any workload eliminating costly silos: valuable
  • Ability to deploy at cloud-like speed and scale quickly accelerating application and service delivery: valuable
  • Developer-friendly infrastructure enabling faster and Developer-friendly infrastructure enabling faster and smarter deployment of apps and services: valuable
• Chose HPE Synergy over other vendors for the following reasons:
  • Future-proof infrastructure that scales as needed
  • One management interface that integrates server, storage, and fabric

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with HPE Synergy:

• Improved the following metrics by using HPE Synergy:
• Reduced cost in the following areas since using HPE Synergy:
  • IT resources optimization: 1% to 25%
  • Cost per VM: >50%
  • Infrastructure management: 26% to 50%

Introduction

This case study of Titan Company Limited is based on a March 2019 survey of HPE StoreOnce customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

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

• Problems that existed before and are now addressed by their HPE StoreOnce Backup System:
  • Too much time spent on administrative tasks due to performance issues and errors
  • An inability to deliver on demanding backup and recovery SLAs

Use Case

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

• Ranks the value of HPE StoreOnce with respect to the following capabilities:
  • Multi-system management from a single pane of glass: very valuable
  • Self-service data protection enabling DBAs and app owners to back up their apps directly to StoreOnce – using native user interfaces: very valuable
  • Pay as you grow scalable capacity and intelligent deduplication storage efficiency: very valuable
  • Faster backup and recovery performance and less network utilization: very valuable
  • Encrypted backups, data integrity checks, fast restores and high availability storage: very valuable
  • Backup as a service with consumption backup as a service on/off premises: very valuable
• Data types they are protecting to their HPE StoreOnce Backup System:
  • VMware virtual machines
  • File Shares/Home Directories
• Type of backup applications (ISV) they are using with their HPE StoreOnce Backup System:
  • MicroFocus Data Protector
• How they integrate StoreOnce into their customer environment:
  • Replaced all their tape backups with StoreOnce
• Chose HPE StoreOnce over other vendors because of HPE’s:
  • Ease to deploy and use
  • HPE

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with HPE StoreOnce:

• Saw improvements in the following areas with HPE StoreOnce:
  • A reduction in backup time: >75%
  • A reduction in recovery time: >75%
  • A reduction in backup storage capacity required (due to deduplication): >75%
  • An increase in system availability: >75%