TechValidate Research on HPE Hybrid IT Solutions

Introduction

This case study of LayerX Cloud is based on a May 2020 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 challenges with HPE Synergy:
  • Poor hardware utilization driving up CAPEX
  • Too many infrastructure platforms to manage with multiple processes driving up OPEX
  • Long lead times to provision infrastructure
• HPE Synergy was chosen over or replaced the following vendor solutions:
  • Dell/EMC
  • HPE BladeSystem

Use Case

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

• Uses the following application workload/s with HPE Synergy:
  • Virtualization and VDI (eg. VMware, HyperV, Citrix, Oracle VM)
  • Containers / DevOps Apps (Docker, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift)
• Rates the value of the following capabilities provided by HPE Synergy:
  • One infrastructure for any workload eliminating costly silos: very 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: very valuable
  • Developer-friendly infrastructure enabling faster and smarter deployment of apps and services: valuable
• Chose HPE Synergy over other vendors for the following reasons:
  • Future-proof infrastructure that scales as needed
  • 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 day – 1 week
  • After HPE Synergy: 1 hour – 1 day
• Improved the following metrics by using HPE Synergy:
  • Reduced the time to provision and re-provision infrastructure: >50%
  • Reduced the time to deploy new OS and software applications: 11-25%
  • Reduced the time to perform ongoing software driver and firmware updates: 26-50%
  • Improved application performance (Oracle, VMware): 11-25%
  • Reduction in time provision or re-provision storage
    (D3940, 3PAR, Primera or Nimble Storage): >50%
• Reduced cost in the following areas since using HPE Synergy:
  • IT resources optimization: 26% to 50%
  • Automation and simplified operations: 26% to 50%
  • Cost per VM: 1% to 25%
  • Infrastructure management: 26% to 50%
  • Provisioning times: 26% to 50%
  • Third party software integrations: 1% to 25%