Challenges
The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select HPE StoreOnce:
- Problems that existed before and are now addressed by their HPE StoreOnce Backup System:
- An inability to scale in a simple and cost-effective way
- Too much time spent on administrative tasks due to performance issues and errors
Use Case
The key features and functionalities of HPE StoreOnce that the surveyed company uses:
- Ranks the value of HPE StoreOnce with respect to the following capabilities:
- Built for the cloud with native cloud integration and backup of only unique data to the cloud: very valuable
- Multi-system management from a single pane of glass: valuable
- Self-service data protection enabling DBAs and app owners to back up their apps directly to StoreOnce – using native user interfaces: valuable
- Pay as you grow scalable capacity and intelligent deduplication storage efficiency: very valuable
- Faster backup and recovery performance and less network utilization: very valuable
- Encrypted backups, data integrity checks, fast restores and high availability storage: very valuable
- Agile software defined protection with easy to deploy, scalable, flexible StoreOnce VSA: valuable
- Backup as a service with consumption backup as a service on/off premises: valuable
- Best of breed backup ISV integration ecosystem: very valuable
- Data types they are protecting to their HPE StoreOnce Backup System:
- VMware virtual machines
- Microsoft SQL
- File Shares/Home Directories
- Oracle
- Microsoft Sharepoint
- Medical Information System Data
- Type of backup applications (ISV) they are using with their HPE StoreOnce Backup System:
- MicroFocus Data Protector
- How they integrate StoreOnce into their customer environment:
- Use StoreOnce alongside tape
- Replaced another backup deduplication technology with StoreOnce
- Chose HPE StoreOnce over other vendors because of HPE’s:
- Tighter integration with HPE Storage arrays (via HPE Recovery Manager Central)
- We are heavily integrated with HPE hardware and support
Results
The surveyed company achieved the following results with HPE StoreOnce:
- Saw improvements in the following areas with HPE StoreOnce:
- A reduction in backup time: 51-75%
- A reduction in recovery time: 26-50%
- A reduction in backup storage capacity required (due to deduplication): >75%
- An increase in system availability: 26-50%