TechValidate Research on HPE Hybrid IT Solutions

Introduction

This case study of S5 Systems is based on an April 2019 survey of HPE Synergy customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

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

• Addressed the following challenge after using HPE Synergy:
  • Complex IT environment and processes with errors that keep IT staff in reactive fire-fighting mode

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:
  • High In-memory processing application
• Rates the value of the following capabilities provided by HPE Synergy:
  • Fluid pool of resources (which avoid over-provisioning of hardware): very valuable
  • Ability to provision and re-provision infrastructure quickly to meet ongoing needs of the business: valuable
  • Ability to deploy OS/application stacks in just a few clicks: very valuable
  • 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): valuable
• 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’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:

• Reports the time spent deploying O/S and application workloads:
  • Before using HPE Synergy: 1 day – 1 week
  • After using HPE Synergy: 1 hour – 1 day
• Saw improvements in the following areas since using HPE Synergy:
  • Improved application performance: 26-50%
  • Reduced the time spent provisioning and re-provisioning infrastructure: 51-75%
  • Reduced the time spent deploying new operating systems and software applications: 51-75%
  • Reduced the time spent performing ongoing software driver and firmware updates: 51-75%
  • Reduced the cost per VM compared to public cloud: 1-25%
  • Reduced the time spent standing up infrastructure by their DevOps teams: 1-25%