Challenges
The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select HPE Synergy:
- Addressed the following challenges with HPE Synergy:
- Their legacy infrastructure being unable to meet the demands of the line of business
- Too many infrastructure platforms to manage with multiple processes driving up OPEX
- Long lead times to provision infrastructure
- An inability to integrate and scale to meet future business demands
Use Case
The key features and functionalities of HPE Synergy that the surveyed company uses:
- Uses the following application workload/s with HPE Synergy:
- A Private/ Hybrid Cloud (e.g. VMware Cloud Foundation, RedHat OpenStack)
- Virtualization and VDI (eg. VMware, HyperV, Citrix, Oracle VM)
- Data Management and Analytics (e.g. Oracle, SQL, SAS)
- Business and Collaboration apps (e.g. SAP, Exchange, SharePoint)
- Containers / DevOps Apps (Docker, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift)
- Software Defined Storage (vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces, Hedvig)
- Rates the value of the following capabilities provided by HPE Synergy:
- One infrastructure for any workload eliminating costly silos: very valuable
- Ability to deploy at cloud-like speed and scale quickly accelerating application and service delivery: very valuable
- Simplified daily operations with automated infrastructure increasing productivity and control across the data center: very valuable
- Developer-friendly infrastructure enabling faster and Developer-friendly infrastructure enabling faster and smarter deployment of apps and services: very valuable
- Chose HPE Synergy over other vendors for the following reasons:
- Future-proof infrastructure that scales as needed
- One platform for all of their workloads (traditional and cloud applications)
- One management interface that integrates server, storage, and fabric
- Security features that prevent, detect, and recover quickly from threats
Results
The surveyed company achieved the following results with HPE Synergy:
- Rates the following for provisioning the infrastructure and deploying O/S and application workloads:
- Before HPE Synergy: 1 day – 1 week
- After HPE Synergy: 1 hour – 1 day
- Improved the following metrics by using HPE Synergy:
- Reduced the time to provision and re-provision infrastructure: >50%
- Reduced the time to deploy new OS and software applications: >50%
- Reduced the time to perform ongoing software driver and firmware updates: >50%
- Reduced the time to stand up infrastructure by their DevOps teams: >50%
- Improved application performance (Oracle, VMware): >50%
- Reduced cost in the following areas since using HPE Synergy:
- IT resources optimization: >50%
- Automation and simplified operations: >50%
- Cost per VM: >50%
- Infrastructure management: >50%
- Provisioning times: >50%
- Third party software integrations: >50%
