TechValidate Research on HPE Hybrid IT Solutions

Introduction

This case study of BlueShore Financial is based on a January 2018 survey of HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage:

• Addressed the following issues with HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage:
  • Performance issues and errors that were requiring too much time to be spent on administrative tasks (OPEX)
  • Issues with not being able to do much with virtual environments

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage that the surveyed company uses:

• Consolidating the following workloads or applications on their HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage system:
  • Development and testing
  • Databases
  • VDI
  • Big data/analytics
• Deployed the following solution in conjunction with their HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage:
  • VMware

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage:

1. Rated the value of the following HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage capabilities:

Very Valuable:

• Capacity reclamation (deduplication & compression)
• High stability
• Ability to scale
• Cconsolidated storage management
• Integrated data protection

Valuable:

• High performance
• Reduced footprint (higher capacity density than legacy systems with traditional disk drives)
• Application-level data snapshotting
• Advanced optimization
• Disaster avoidance with advanced replication and application transparent failover

2. Chose HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage over other vendors, like Dell EMC or Netapp, because:

• HPE 3PAR fits seamlessly into HPE’s end-to-end total solution of servers, networking, and storage for simplified infrastructure vs. storage only vendors offering point solutions

3. Reduced time to perform administrative tasks with HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage:

• Performance troubleshooting: more than 75%
• Storage provisioning: more than 75%
• Capacity planning/design: more than 75%
• Provisioning upgrades: 51-75%
• Responding to customer requests: 51-75%

4. Improved the following areas with HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage:

• Consistently predicted performance with sub-millisecond latency
• Increased managed capacity per admin