TechValidate Research on HPE Hybrid IT Solutions

Introduction

This case study of Memphis Grizzlies is based on a September 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 significant burden.

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure that the surveyed company uses:

• Uses HPE SimpliVity in the following ways:
  • Data center consolidation / private cloud
  • 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 100:1 to 200:1 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:
  • Global federated management: highly valuable
  • Hyperconverged appliance: extremely valuable
  • VM-centric management via vCenter: highly valuable
  • Inline dedupe, compression: extremely valuable
  • Integrated data protection: extremely valuable

Introduction

This case study of NTT Communications is based on an April 2019 survey of HPE Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Arrays customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select HPE Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Arrays:

• Addressed the following requirements with HPE Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Arrays:
  • Need for cost-effective storage
  • Need for high performance
• Replaced the following solutions with HPE Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Arrays:
  • 3PAR

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of HPE Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Arrays that the surveyed company uses:

• Consolidating the following workloads or applications on their HPE Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Arrays:
  • Their hosting and service provider
• Using the following apps or database environments in conjunction with HPE Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Arrays:
  • VMware

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with HPE Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Arrays:

• Rates the value of the following capabilities offered by HPE Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Arrays:
  • Ability to predict and resolve problems (InfoSight): very valuable
  • Design for both primary and secondary flash workloads: valuable
  • Prescriptive forecasts into capacity, performance, and bandwidth requirements (InfoSight): valuable
  • Holistic view across the infrastructure stack: very valuable
  • Ability to migrate data between all-flash, hybrid-flash, and multi-cloud storage: very valuable
• Identifies the following as HPE Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Arrays’ strengths over other storage vendors:
  • Predictive Analytics with InfoSight
  • High reliability (guaranteed 99.9999% availability)
• Improved the following metrics related to administrative tasks since using HPE Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Arrays:
  • Performance troubleshooting: 51-75%
  • Storage provisioning: 51-75%
  • Capacity planning/design (predictive analytics): 26-50%
  • Provisioning upgrades: 51-75%
  • Time to respond to customer requests: 1-25%
• Improved the following metrics since using HPE Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Arrays:
  • Improved the cost per capacity: 1-25%
  • Improved the cost per performance: 1-25%
  • Increased the managed capacity per admin: 26-50%