TechValidate Research on HPE Hybrid IT Solutions

Introduction

This case study of a federal government is based on a May 2020 survey of HPE’s File and Backup Solutions customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled organization to evaluate and ultimately select HPE’s File and Backup Solutions:

• Rates how critical the following requirements are for HPE’s File and Backup Solution:
  • The need for centralized storage: business critical
  • The need to process and analyze large volumes of data: critical
  • The need for reliable disaster recovery and archiving: critical
  • The need for high availability: critical

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of HPE’s File and Backup Solutions that the surveyed organization uses:

• Rates the value of HPE File and Backup Solution with respect to the following capabilities:
  • Centralize storage: very valuable
  • Secure and protect data: very valuable
  • Ensure data availability for users: very valuable
  • Provide archiving and disaster recovery backups: very valuable
  • Integrate backup plan with the cloud: valuable
  • Make data portable (offsite disks/tape/cloud): valuable
• Managing the following data types or workloads with their HPE File and Backup Solution:
  • Databases: on-premise
  • File shares and directories: on-premise
  • Microsoft Exchange: on-premise
  • Financial accounting applications: on-premise
  • Content management systems: on-premise
  • Retail Point-of-Sale: on-premise
• HPE is a better File and Backup Solution than other similar vendors because of HPE’s reliability.
• Managing data for 200+ users with HPE File and Backup Solution.
• Manages 21-100 TB with their HPE File and Backup Solution.

Results

The surveyed organization achieved the following results with HPE’s File and Backup Solutions:

• Saw a return on investment for HPE’s File and Backup Solution within 1 week to 1 month.
• Saw the following improvements since using their HPE File and Backup Solution:
  • Reduced backup time: 51-75%
  • Reduced data recovery time: 51-75%
  • Increased data availability: 26-50%
  • Increased user productivity: 26-50%
  • Reduced their management time: 51-75%