HPE Hybrid IT Solutions Research Charts

HPE SimpliVity Customer Research

Based on your support experience, please rate your satisfaction based on how the outcome addressed your business need.

	Very satisfied	Satisfied	Not Satisfied
Support experience with initial deployment delivered by HPE (remote)	52%	27%	21%
Support experience with initial deployment delivered by HPE (onsite)	71%	24%	5%
Support experience with initial deployment delivered by partner	72%	19%	9%
Support experience with initial deployment delivered by a trained customer	67%	25%	8%
Support experience with software upgrades (hypervisor and/or HPE SimpliVity software)	32%	42%	26%
Support experience with the majority of cases and incidents with HPE SimpliVity	37%	42%	21%
Support experience relating to having easy access to knowledgebase, support portal, forums	30%	43%	27%

HPE SimpliVity Customer Research

For HPE SimpliVity’s solution, rate how valuable the following features were in the selection process.

	Extremely valuable	Valuable	Did Not Influence Decision
Integrated data protection	62%	27%	11%
Inline dedupe, compression	65%	31%	4%
VM-centric management via vCenter	56%	39%	5%
HPE InfoSight AIops Automation	8%	36%	56%
Globally federated management	12%	51%	37%
Secure foundation based on HPE ProLiant solution and supply chain	28%	49%	23%
HPE GreenLake as a service offering for flexibility in consumption method	5%	24%	71%

HPE SimpliVity Customer Research

How would you describe your IT environment?

Single site (single or multiple appliances)	46%
Hub and Spoke – edge, multi-site deployments with common services hosted out of a core data center.	30%
Multi-site, mesh – Independent deployments and individual appliances with possible replication/backup partners. Examples: Retail, branch offices	26%
Multi-site –autonomous – Independent deployments and individual appliances; requires disconnected, autonomous operations with local data processing. Examples: Ships, Oil pipelines, Manufacturing sites	20%

HPE SimpliVity Customer Research

What is your preferred disaster recovery (DR) & data protection strategy?

Multisite DR	59%
On-prem to another backup partner or external storage	52%
On-prem local only	28%
Public Cloud DR	15%

HPE SimpliVity Customer Research

Since deploying HPE SimpliVity, what productivity gains have you realized or expect to realize regarding time freed up to focus on more strategic projects?

Greater than 90%	9%
76%-90%	18%
51%-75%	15%
26%-50%	29%
10%-25%	18%
Other	12%

HPE SimpliVity Customer Research

Since deploying HPE SimpliVity, what efficiency benefits have you realized or what do you expect to realize regarding capacity savings? Please reference the Data Center View in the HPE SimpliVity tab.

Greater than 300:1: 7%

200:1 to 300:1: 7%

100:1 to 200:1: 7%

50:1 to 100:1: 34%

Up to 50:1: 36%

Other: 9%

HPE SimpliVity Customer Research

Which application types are you running or planning to run on HPE SimpliVity?

Structure data (e.g. RDMS, MSFT SQL, MySQL, Oracle, etc.)	87%
Business applications (e.g., ERM, CRM, financial management, etc.)	68%
Collaboration apps: (e.g. messaging, file share, email, etc.)	68%
Security and access: (e.g. AD, SASE, IAM, cyber)	55%
Homegrown, ecommerce, web apps, content serving	32%
App dev, DevOps, Testing, Big Data, monitoring	23%
VDI / EUC (e.g. Citrix, View, etc.)	21%
Video apps (e.g. Security, Quality diagnostics, Genetec, Milestone, etc.)	13%
Retail-specific apps: (e.g. Everseen, Rubikoud, Manthan, PMI, Point of Sale, etc.)	11%

HPE SimpliVity Customer Research

From the list below, select the primary catalyst events that prompted your organization to select HPE SimpliVity

Refresh existing infrastructure with a simplified, highly efficient, all-in-one solution	87%
Need for built-in backup and disaster recovery	45%
Data center migration or consolidation initiative	32%
Run VMs today and possibly cloud-native applications in the future	17%
Standardize, secure infrastructure across edge sites with a solution that doesn’t require onsite management and includes security and built-in data protection	17%
New application deployment (including VDI)	6%

HPE MicroServer Gen10 Plus Customer Research

Please rank the value of the following capabilities of the HPE MicroServer compared to other solutions in the market.

	Very valuable	Valuable	Least valuable
Reliability	64%	27%	9%
Security	41%	53%	6%
Virtualization	45%	42%	13%
Ease of deploying / managing workloads	35%	46%	19%
Performance	35%	45%	20%
Ability to use a pay-as-you-go consumption model	4%	35%	61%

HPE MicroServer Gen10 Plus Customer Research

What workloads or applications are you deploying on your HPE MicroServer in your office?

File sharing, print, and email server	60%
Local backup and restore	49%
Accounting, HR, or finance applications	23%
Alternative to workstation/desktop	17%
Network gateway	13%

HPE MicroServer Gen10 Plus Customer Research

What are your use cases in your HPE Compute environment?

General purpose small business applications	71%
Virtualization	54%
Private / Hybrid Cloud	39%
Remote access for remote workforce	21%
Data Management & Analytics	14%

HPE MicroServer Gen10 Plus Customer Research

Which of the following pain points have been drivers for upgrading your existing HPE Compute infrastructure?

Reliability requirements	52%
Cost of server	44%
Infrastructure management	30%
Workload deployment time and effort	30%
Security	16%
Other	14%

HPE NonStop systems Customer Research

By what percentage have you seen improvement in the following areas with (or after upgrading/migrating to) HPE NonStop systems? Provide your best estimate.

	Greater than 75%	51-75%	26-50%	1-25%
Improvement in system/application availability	50%	15%	15%	20%
Improvement in data/transactions processing time	39%	30%	17%	14%
Improvement in system capacity (compute, memory) to support growth	44%	24%	23%	9%
Increase in speed (in transactions per second - tps)	45%	29%	18%	8%
Reduction in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) (system consolidation, licensing savings, database and personnel costs, maintenance savings etc., avoiding cost of downtime)	36%	24%	22%	18%

HPE Nimble Storage Customer Research

What workloads or applications are you consolidating on your HPE Nimble Storage?

Server Virtualization	93%
Databases	69%
Back-Up and Replication	38%
Development and Testing	36%
Email/Collaboration	27%
VDI	25%
Hosting / Service Provider	9%
Containers	7%

HPE SimpliVity Customer Research

How would you describe your IT environment?

Single site (single or multiple appliances): 34%

Multi-site – independent deployments and individual appliances with possible replication/backup partners.: 31%

Hub and Spoke – multi-site deployments with common services hosted out of a core data center.: 24%

Multi-site – independent deployments and individual appliances, no communication required between sites.: 8%

Other: 3%

HPE SimpliVity Customer Research

What is your preferred disaster recovery (DR) & data protection strategy?

Multisite DR: 46%

On-prem to another backup partner: 27%

On-prem local only: 22%

Native Cloud DR: 3%

Other: 3%

HPE SimpliVity Customer Research

What is your preferred disaster recovery (DR) & data protection strategy?

Multisite DR: 46%

On-prem to another backup partner: 27%

On-prem local only: 22%

Native Cloud DR: 3%

HPE SimpliVity Customer Research

Which application types are you running or planning to run on HPE SimpliVity?

Structured data (e.g. RDMS, MSFT SQL, MySQL, Oracle, etc.)	87%
Business applications (e.g., ERM, CRM, financial management, etc.)	65%
Collaboration apps: (e.g. messaging, file share, email, etc.)	58%
Security and access: (e.g. AD, SASE, IAM, cyber)	50%
Homegrown, ecommerce, web apps, content serving	36%
VDI / EUC (e.g. Citrix, View, etc.)	33%
App dev, DevOps, Testing, Big Data, monitoring	15%
Retail-specific apps: (e.g. Everseen, Rubikoud, Manthan, PMI, Point of Sale, etc.)	11%
Video apps (e.g. Genetec, Milestone, etc.)	4%

HPE SimpliVity Customer Research

How do you use or plan to use HPE SimpliVity?

Infrastructure modernization / technology refresh	65%
Backup, recovery, and disaster recovery	53%
Data center consolidation / private cloud	47%
Production applications/VDI	26%
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)	19%
Test/Dev and QA	16%
Edge or Remote/branch office (ROBO)	13%
Data migration	11%

HPE SimpliVity Customer Research

From the list below, select the primary catalyst event that prompted your organization to select HPE SimpliVity.

Refresh existing infrastructure with a simplified, highly efficient, all-in-one solution	71%
Built-in backup and disaster recovery	58%
Data center migration or consolidation	38%
Rapid data recovery capabilities in case of ransomware attack	37%
Run VMs today and possibly cloud-native applications in future	12%
Standardize infrastructure across edge sites with a solution that doesn’t require onsite management and includes built-in data protection and disaster recovery	12%
Accelerate application development (DevOps, agile, and others)	5%

HPE ProLiant Server solutions Customer Research

What workloads or applications are you consolidating on your HPE ProLiant Server solution?

Virtualization	80%
Storage and backup	61%
Multi-function business applications (Ex. SQL Database, Storage, Virtualization, etc)	60%
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)	15%
Software defined storage or vSAN	12%
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning	3%

HPE StoreEver Customer Research

What type of storage software are you using with your HPE StoreEver device?

Veeam	34%
Veritas Backup Exec	21%
MicroFocus Data Protector	20%
Veritas NetBackup	12%
CommVault Simpana	7%
HPE StoreOpen Software	5%
Dell EMC Networker	5%
IBM Spectrum Protect	1%
Milestone XProtect	1%

HPE Primera Customer Research

By what % have you made improvements in the following areas with HPE Primera?

>75%, 75%-51% 50%-26% 25%-1%

Deliver consistent, predictable performance with sub millisecond latency
Increase in managed capacity per admin
Eliminate or reduce unplanned or planned downtime
Bring new mission-critical applications online faster
Lower CAPEX with a pay-per-use model
Pinpoint issues with full-stack analytics across storage and virtual resources

HPE Apollo 4000 systems Customer Research

HPE Apollo 4000 systems were chosen over or have replaced which of the following solutions?

Dell/EMC: 47%

Supermicro: 20%

Cisco: 7%

NetApp: 7%

Other: 20%

HPE Apollo 4000 systems Customer Research

Which use-cases or applications are you consolidating on HPE Apollo 4000 systems?

High performance computing storage	48%
Unstructured data consolidation or offload from other platforms	26%
Content delivery or distribution	13%
Stream or batch analytics	13%
Video surveillance	13%
Compliance and eDiscovery	4%
Machine learning model training and/or inferencing	4%
Media rendering or production workflows	4%

HPE Synergy Customer Research

What application workload/s are you using or planning to use with HPE Synergy?

Virtualization and VDI (eg. VMware, HyperV, Citrix, Oracle VM)	94%
Data Management and Analytics (e.g. Oracle, SQL, SAS)	47%
Private/ Hybrid Cloud (e.g. VMware Cloud Foundation, RedHat OpenStack)	35%
Business and Collaboration apps (e.g. SAP, Exchange, SharePoint)	34%
Containers / DevOps Apps (Docker, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift)	33%
Software Defined Storage (vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces, Hedvig)	15%
In memory computing (SAP HANA)	7%

HPE Synergy Customer Research

Which of the following challenges are best addressed by HPE Synergy?

Too many infrastructure platforms to manage with multiple processes driving up OPEX	55%
Legacy infrastructure unable to meet the demands of the line of business	49%
Long lead times to provision infrastructure	42%
Inability to integrate and scale to meet future business demands	34%
Poor hardware utilization driving up CAPEX	30%

HPE's virtualization solution Customer Research

By what percentage do you estimate improvements in the following areas with your HPE Small Business Solutions for Virtualization?

Greater than 75% 51-75% 26-50% 1-25%

Reduction in initial setup time of servers
Reduction in backup time of servers
Increase in user collaboration
Reduction in solution deployment and management costs
Decrease in recovery time of VMs

HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Array solutions Customer Research

For existing HPE Nimble Storage dHCI users, please rate the value of the capabilities?

Very Valuable Valuable Not Valuable

Independently scale compute and storage
Problem prevention through predictive analytics (HPE InfoSight)
Ability to tolerate three simultaneous drive failures with no effect on performance or data
Guaranteed 6-nines storage availability
Integrated data protection and replication
15 minutes rack-to-apps setup

HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Array solutions Customer Research

HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays were chosen over or have replaced which of the following solutions?

Replaced Chosen over

Dell/EMC
NetApp
Pure Storage

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