Challenges
The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select HPE Synergy:
- Addressed the following challenges with HPE Synergy:
- An inability to integrate and scale to meet future business demands
- HPE Synergy was chosen over or replaced the following solution:
Use Case
The key features and functionalities of HPE Synergy that the surveyed company uses:
- Uses the following application workload/s with HPE Synergy:
- A Private/ Hybrid Cloud (e.g. VMware Cloud Foundation, RedHat OpenStack)
- Virtualization and VDI (eg. VMware, HyperV, Citrix, Oracle VM)
- Data Management and Analytics (e.g. Oracle, SQL, SAS)
- Rates the value of the following capabilities provided by HPE Synergy:
- One infrastructure for any workload eliminating costly silos: valuable
- Ability to deploy at cloud-like speed and scale quickly accelerating application and service delivery: valuable
- Simplified daily operations with automated infrastructure increasing productivity and control across the data center: valuable
- Developer-friendly infrastructure enabling faster and smarter deployment of apps and services: valuable
- Chose HPE Synergy over other vendors for the following reasons:
- One platform for all of their workloads (traditional and cloud applications)
- One management interface that integrates server, storage, and fabric
Results
The surveyed company achieved the following results with HPE Synergy:
- Rates the following for provisioning the infrastructure and deploying O/S and application workloads:
- Before HPE Synergy: 1 week – 1 month
- After HPE Synergy: 1 day – 1 week
- Improved the following metrics by using HPE Synergy:
- Reduced the time to perform ongoing software driver and firmware updates: 26-50%
- Reduced cost in the following areas since using HPE Synergy: