Challenges
The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select HPE Apollo 4000 systems:
- Solved the following previous pain points after using HPE Apollo 4000 systems:
- Undertaking new data-intensive use cases
- Storing data
- Protecting data
- Managing data
- Administering infrastructure
- Chose HPE Apollo 4000 systems over Supermicro.
Use Case
The key features and functionalities of HPE Apollo 4000 systems that the surveyed company uses:
- Consolidating the following workloads on HPE Apollo 4000 systems:
- Software-defined file or object storage
- Data protection, backup, and recovery
- Consolidating the following use-cases or applications on HPE Apollo 4000 systems:
- High performance computing storage
- Backup, ceph storage
- Rates the total volume of data currently stored across all of their HPE Apollo 4000 systems:
- Rates the value of the following HPE Apollo 4000 systems attributes for differentiating it from similar solutions in the market:
- Storage capacity or density: very valuable
- System performance: very valuable
- System and data security: valuable
- System manageability: very valuable
- Configuration flexibility: very valuable
- Certified software applications: valuable
- Standard rack depth form factor: very valuable
- Hardware serviceability: very valuable
- Hardware quality: very valuable
Results
The surveyed company achieved the following results with HPE Apollo 4000 systems:
- Improved the following metrics since using HPE Apollo 4000 systems:
- Reduced time to scale infrastructure to support data growth: up to 25%
- Reduced time required for system troobleshooting: greater than 75%
- Increased application or user performance: up to 25%
- Reduced data center power/cooling/space: 25-50%
- Reduced cost per Terabyte (TB): up to 25%
- Time it takes to deploy new workloads on their IT infrastructure:
- After HPE Apollo 4000 systems: less than 1 day