HPE Hybrid IT Solutions Ashok Leyland Limited

HPE Synergy Case Study

Ashok Leyland Limited

This case study of Ashok Leyland Limited is based on a January 2018 survey of HPE Synergy customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“HPE Synergy helps me in my journey to a simplified hybrid IT environment at my organization.”

“It has given the flexibility of Public cloud in my private cloud.”

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select HPE Synergy:

Overprovisioned infrastructure driving up CAPEX and poor hardware utilization
Siloed IT environment resulting in long lead times to provision infrastructure
Complex IT environment and processes with errors that keep IT staff in a reactive fire-fighting mode
Inability to react quickly enough to the business needs

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
Rates the value of the following capabilities provided by HPE Synergy:
- Fluid pool of resources (which avoid over-provisioning of hardware): very valuable
- Ability to provision and re-provision infrastructure quickly to meet ongoing needs of the business: very valuable
- Ability to deploy OS/application stacks in just a few clicks: very valuable
- Ability to simplify daily IT operational tasks: valuable
- Ability to treat infrastructure as code (allowing internal SW development teams to deploy infrastructure quickly using DevOps tools): valuable
HPE Synergy was chosen over or replaced the following vendor solution:
- HPE Servers/Blades

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: more than 75%
- Reduced the time spent provisioning and re-provisioning infrastructure: more than 75%
- Reduced the time spent deploying new operating systems and software applications: more than 75%
- Reduced the time spent performing ongoing software driver and firmware updates: 51-75%
- Reduced the cost per VM compared to public cloud: 51-75%
- Reduced the time spent standing up infrastructure by their DevOps teams: more than 75%