Challenges
The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select HPE SimpliVity:
- Selected HPE SimpliVity for the following reasons:
- Had a data center migration or consolidation initiative
- Had a new implementation of applications (including VDI)
- Needed centralization of administration for remote office / branch infrastructure
- Had a desire to improve IT or application delivery cycle times
Use Case
The key features and functionalities of HPE SimpliVity that the surveyed company uses:
- Uses HPE SimpliVity for the following:
- Infrastructure modernization / technological update
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
- Private cloud
- Runs the following types of applications in HPE SimpliVity:
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Industry-specific application (911 system, healthcare application, legal case management, CAD / CAM)
- Microsoft SharePoint
Results
The surveyed company achieved the following results with HPE SimpliVity:
- Performance improved by 25% to 50% after implementing HPE SimpliVity.
- Experienced efficiency benefits in relation to capacity savings from 50: 1 to 100: 1 after implementing HPE SimpliVity.
- How long it takes to deploy new workloads, including allocation of compute and storage resources, and data protection policy settings:
- Before using HPE SimpliVity: 1 week – 1 month
- After using HPE SimpliVity: 1 day – 1 week
- Saw value in 3 to 6 months after implementing HPE SimpliVity.
- Rates the value of the following HPE SimpliVity capabilities in the selection process:
- A single trusted provider for global support for your entire stack: valuable
- HPE SimpliVity reliability, serviceability, and availability, backed by a comprehensive warranty: valuable
- HPE SimpliVity future-proof design: very valuable
- HPE SimpliVity Pointnext support and service offerings: valuable
- Flexible HPE SimpliVity consumption and financing: valuable
- Rate the value of the following HPE SimpliVity features in the selection process:
- Integrated data protection: valuable
- Real-time deduplication and compression: valuable
- Virtual machine-centric management via vCenter: very valuable
- Hyperconverged infrastructure with HPE ProLiant DL380: valuable
- Federated Global Administration: very valuable
