TechValidate Research on HPE Hybrid IT Solutions

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 energy & utilities company is based on a May 2019 survey of HPE Synergy 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 Synergy:

• Addressed the following challenges after using HPE Synergy:
  • Siloed IT environment resulting in long lead times to provision infrastructure
  • Inefficient IT processes with rising OPEX that are hard to control

Use Case

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

• Uses or plans to use the following application workload with HPE Synergy:
  • Traditional enterprise applications
  • Virtualization and VDI applications (VMware, HyperV, Citrix, Oracle VM)
• Rates the value of the following capabilities provided by HPE Synergy:
  • fluid pool of resources (which avoid over-provisioning of hardware): valuable
  • ability to provision and re-provision infrastructure quickly to meet ongoing needs of the business: not applicable
  • ability to deploy OS/application stacks in just a few clicks: not applicable
  • ability to simplify daily IT operational tasks: very valuable
  • ability to treat infrastructure as code (allowing internal SW development teams to deploy infrastructure quickly using DevOps tools): not applicable
• Chose HPE Synergy over other vendors for the following reasons:
  • HPE Synergy provides one management interface into their infrastructure as opposed to the multiple tools required by vendors like Cisco or Dell/EMC
  • HPE Synergy provides a single platform for running both existing traditional applications as well as cloud application stacks
  • HPE Synergy’s new design has the best ability to support future technologies and scale that they require ( storage & network bandwidth)

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with HPE Synergy:

• Saw improvements in the following areas since using HPE Synergy:
  • reduced the time spent performing ongoing software driver and firmware updates: 26-50%