Challenges
The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select HPE Synergy:
- Addressed the following challenges after using HPE Synergy:
- Complex IT environment and processes with errors that keep IT staff in reactive fire-fighting mode
- Inability to react quickly enough to the business needs
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:
- Traditional enterprise applications
- Data management applications (Oracle, SQL)
- Virtualization and VDI applications (VMware, HyperV, Citrix, Oracle VM)
- DevOps applications (Docker, Chef, Puppet)
- Container applications
- Rates the value of the following capabilities provided by HPE Synergy:
- fluid pool of resources (which avoid over-provisioning of hardware): 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): not valuable
- HPE Synergy was chosen over or replaced the following vendor solutions:
- Chose HPE Synergy over other vendors for the following reasons:
- Vendors, such as Cisco UCS, have an aging architecture with an uncertain roadmap for the future
- Vendors, like Dell/EMC and Cisco, do not offer a true composable, unified architecture like HPE Synergy
- 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 templates allow them to deploy infrastructure faster than what they could do with Cisco UCS service profiles or Dell EMC Systems
- 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: more than 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 time spent standing up infrastructure by their DevOps teams: 26-50%
