TechValidate Research on HPE Hybrid IT Solutions

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise infrastructure and engineering company is based on a September 2020 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:

• Problem that existed before and are now addressed by their HPE StoreOnce Backup System:
  • Difficulties in data recoverability in the face of growing threats such as Ransomware

Use Case

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

• Data types they are protecting to their HPE StoreOnce Backup System:
  • VMware virtual machines
  • Microsoft SQL
  • Microsoft Exchange
  • Oracle
• Type of backup applications (ISV) they are using with their HPE StoreOnce Backup System:
  • Veeam
• How they integrate StoreOnce into their customer environment:
  • Replaced all their tape backups with StoreOnce
  • Use StoreOnce alongside the cloud

Results

The surveyed company would recommend HPE StoreOnce because HPE is “very reliable.”

• Ranks the value of HPE StoreOnce with respect to the following capabilities:
  • Faster backup and recovery performance and less network utilization: valuable
  • Encrypted backups, data integrity checks, fast restores and high availability storage: valuable
  • Agile software defined protection with easy to deploy, scalable, flexible StoreOnce VSA: valuable