TechValidate Research on HPE Hybrid IT Solutions

Introduction

This case study of Woodmans Food Markets 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

• Uses HPE SimpliVity in the following ways:
  • Data center consolidation / private cloud
  • Infrastructure modernization / technology refresh
  • Remote / Branch Office (ROBO)
  • Production applications
• Runs the following types of applications on HPE SimpliVity:
  • Oracle
  • 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 200:1 to 300:1 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 week -1 month
• Realized value in 1 to 3 months after the deployment of HPE SimpliVity
• Ranks the value of the following HPE SimpliVity features:
  • Global federated management: highly valuable
  • Hyperconverged appliance: highly valuable
  • VM-centric management via vCenter: extremely valuable
  • Inline dedupe, compression: extremely valuable
  • Integrated data protection: extremely valuable

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise beverage company is based on a March 2019 survey of HPE StoreOnce 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 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

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
  • Agile software defined protection with easy to deploy, scalable, flexible StoreOnce VSA: valuable
  • Backup as a service with consumption backup as a service on/off premises: valuable
  • Best of breed backup ISV integration ecosystem: valuable
• Data types they are protecting to their HPE StoreOnce Backup System:
  • VMware virtual machines
  • File Shares/Home Directories
  • 4 generations HPUX based application database written in house
• 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:
  • Use StoreOnce alongside tape
• Chose HPE StoreOnce over other vendors because of HPE’s:
  • Ease to deploy and use
  • Tighter integration with HPE Storage arrays (via HPE Recovery Manager Central)

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: 51-75%
  • A reduction in recovery time: >75%