TechValidate Research on HPE Hybrid IT Solutions

Introduction

This case study of a small business computer services company is based on an April 2018 survey of HPE mission-critical servers 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 mission-critical servers:

• Addressed the following challenges after using HPE mission-critical servers:
  • Insufficient scale or performance to deal with the growth of the business and data

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of HPE mission-critical servers that the surveyed company uses:

• Supports the following workloads/applications with HPE mission-critical servers:
  • ERP
  • CRM
  • Business intelligence applications
  • Finance applications
• Running the following databases on their HPE mission-critical servers:
  • SAP HANA
• HPE mission-critical server was chosen over/replaced the following vendors:
  • Oracle/Sun: was chosen over
  • Lenovo: was chosen over
  • Dell-EMC: was chosen over
  • Cisco: was chosen over
  • other HPE servers: was chosen over
• The following differentiates HPE mission-critical servers from similar solutions offered in the market:
  • Platform RAS (reliability, availability, and serviceability) on standard hardware
  • Scalability
  • Wide range of partnership and integrations
  • High performance
  • In-memory capability to address very large problems

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with HPE mission-critical servers:

• Rates the value of the following capabilities provided by HPE mission-critical servers:
  • Extreme scalability: very valuable
  • Highest levels of availability: valuable
  • High memory capacity: very valuable
  • High performance: valuable
  • Simplified single-server management: valuable
  • Scale-up efficiency: very valuable
  • Standards-based design: valuable
  • Advanced memory resiliency: very valuable
  • Flexible growth or reconfiguration: valuable
  • Compute density: valuable
  • Large workload performance: valuable
• Saw improvements in the following areas since using HPE mission-critical servers:
  • Reduction in downtime: 26% to 50%
  • Improvements in performance (reduction in data/transactions processing time): 26% to 50%
  • Improvements in capacity (compute, memory) to support growth: 51% to 75%
• Saw reduced costs in the following areas since using HPE mission-critical servers:
  • Reduction in costs due to standardization (moving from proprietary to standards – Unix to Linux): 26% to 50%
  • Reduction in costs through consolidation (hardware, software, support, and management): 26% to 50%