Challenges
The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select HPE Primera:
- Adressed the following problems after using HPE Primera:
- Spending too much time administering, tuning, and supporting existing infrastructure
- Inconsistent performance slowing down the business or impacting SLAs
- Painful forklift upgrades that are disruptive and time consuming
- HPE Primera was chosen over or replaced no other vendor, HPE was their first choice.
Use Case
The key features and functionalities of HPE Primera that the surveyed company uses:
- Consolidates the following workloads or applications on their HPE Primera:
- Mission-critical workloads
- Virtualization
- Databases
- Deploys the following type of solutions in conjunction with their HPE Primera:
- VMware
- Backup Systems and DRP connections
- Rates the value of HPE Primera with respect to the following capabilities:
- API Driven Management: very valuable
- App-aware data protection extended to the cloud: valuable
- Autonomous operations and predictive analytics: very valuable
- Always-fast and Always-On: very valuable
- Built-in replication with application transparent failover: very valuable
Results
The surveyed company achieved the following results with HPE Primera:
- Identified the following as strengths of HPE Primera over other storage vendors:
- Global Intelligence to predict and prevent problems and enable real-time optimizations
- 100% availability guarantee as a standard benefit
- Timeless Storage with all-inclusive licensing, non-disruptive upgrades, and flat support pricing
- Advanced support with direct access to Level 3
- Reduced time to perform the following administrative tasks after using HPE Primera:
- Installation and set up: 75%-51%,
- Storage provisioning: 75%-51%,
- Performance troubleshooting: >75%
- Firmware upgrades: 26%-50%
- Hardware upgrades: 26%-50%
- Responding to customer requests: 75%-51%,
- Rates improvements in the following areas after using HPE Primera:
- Delivered consistent, predictable performance with sub millisecond latency: 75%-51%
- Increased managed capacity per admin: >75%,
- Brought new mission-critical applications online faster: 50%-26%
- Lowered CAPEX with a pay-per-use model: 50%-26%
- Pinpointed issues with full-stack analytics across storage and virtual resources: 75%-51%
- Rates how valuable the following benefits were after migrating from HPE 3PAR to HPE Primera:
- Seamless Management with no learning curve: valuable
- Non-disruptive data migration: very valuable
- Self-Service (i.e. self-install and self-upgrade): very valuable
- The flexibility to leverage their HPE 3PAR systems as a Disaster Recovery target: valuable
