TechValidate Research on HPE Hybrid IT Solutions

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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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