TechValidate Research on HPE Hybrid IT Solutions

Introduction

This case study of BlueShore Financial is based on a September 2020 survey of HPE Primera customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select HPE Primera:

• Adressed the following problems after using HPE Primera:
  • Painful forklift upgrades that are disruptive and time consuming
• HPE Primera was chosen over or replaced Pure Storage.

Use Case

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

• Consolidates the following workloads or applications on their HPE Primera:
  • Mission-critical workloads
  • Virtualization
  • Databases
• Deploys the following type of solutions in conjunction with their HPE Primera:
  • VMware
  • Docker
  • Oneview / Synergy
• Rates the value of HPE Primera with respect to the following capabilities:
  • API Driven Management: valuable
  • App-aware data protection extended to the cloud: not valuable
  • Autonomous operations and predictive analytics: valuable
  • Always-fast and Always-On: very valuable
  • Built-in replication with application transparent failover: valuable

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with HPE Primera:

• Identified the following as strengths of HPE Primera over other storage vendors:
  • Simple, on-demand experience for instant access to data
  • 100% availability guarantee as a standard benefit
  • Timeless Storage with all-inclusive licensing, non-disruptive upgrades, and flat support pricing
• Reduced time to perform the following administrative tasks after using HPE Primera:
  • Installation and set up: 26%-50%
  • Performance troubleshooting: 25%-1%
  • Firmware upgrades: 25%-1%
  • Hardware upgrades: 26%-50%
  • Responding to customer requests: 26%-50%
• Rates improvements in the following areas after using HPE Primera:
  • Delivered consistent, predictable performance with sub millisecond latency: 75%-51%
  • Increased managed capacity per admin: 50%-26%
  • Eliminated or reduced unplanned or planned downtime: 50%-26%
  • Brought new mission-critical applications online faster: 50%-26%
  • Pinpointed issues with full-stack analytics across storage and virtual resources: 25%-1%
• Rates how valuable the following benefits were after migrating from HPE 3PAR to HPE Primera:
  • Seamless Management with no learning curve: very valuable
  • Non-disruptive data migration: very valuable
  • Self-Service (i.e. self-install and self-upgrade): valuable
  • The flexibility to leverage their HPE 3PAR systems as a Disaster Recovery target: very valuable