TechValidate Research on HPE Hybrid IT Solutions

Introduction

This case study of a TOT Public Company is based on a January 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 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:
  • 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:
  • Faster to deploy, update and provision infrastructure
• Agrees HPE OneView stands out from other solutions in the market because of:
  • High-quality performance
• Realized the following benefit with HPE OneView:
  • Increased the speed of deployment of new applications and services using REST API
• 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: 26-50%
  • 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: 26-50%

Introduction

This case study of Opin Kerfi is based on a May 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 after using HPE Synergy:
  • Siloed IT environment resulting in long lead times to provision infrastructure
  • Inability to react quickly enough to the business needs

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:
  • Traditional enterprise applications
  • Virtualization and VDI applications (VMware, HyperV, Citrix, Oracle VM)
• Rates the value of the following capabilities provided by HPE Synergy:
  • Fluid pool of resources (which avoid over-provisioning of hardware): very valuable
  • Ability to provision and re-provision infrastructure quickly to meet ongoing needs of the business: very valuable
  • Ability to deploy OS/application stacks in just a few clicks: very valuable
  • Ability to simplify daily IT operational tasks: very valuable
  • Ability to treat infrastructure as code (allowing internal SW development teams to deploy infrastructure quickly using DevOps tools): very valuable

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: 1 day – 1 week
  • After using HPE Synergy: 1 hour – 1 day
• Saw improvements in the following areas since using HPE Synergy:
  • Improved application performance: 51-75%
  • Reduced the time spent provisioning and re-provisioning infrastructure: more than 75%
  • Reduced the time spent deploying new operating systems and software applications: more than 75%
  • Reduced the time spent performing ongoing software driver and firmware updates: 51-75%
  • Reduced the cost per VM compared to public cloud: 51-75%
  • Reduced the time spent standing up infrastructure by their DevOps teams: 51-75%