TechValidate Research on Acme Systems B7500


Case Study: Educational Institution

Introduction

This case study of a educational institution is based on a January 2016 survey of Acme Systems B7500 customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“Acme’s sales and support teams are first-class. It is refreshing to work with such a professional team that gets things done right so that we can focus on all other IT matters instead of email.”

Challenges

  • Solved the following operational challenges with their Acme Systems B7500:
    • Improved the efficiency of a business process
    • Improved disaster recovery
  • Cited that the top reasons for purchasing their Acme Systems B7500 were to:
    • Meet a compressing backup window
    • Meet increasing RPO and RTO SLAs
    • Achieve better management economies of scale

Use Case

  • Deployed their Acme Systems B7500 in conjunction with the following applications:
    • IBM DB2 databases
    • Microsoft SQL Server databases
    • Oracle Applications
  • Deployed the following operating system hosts in their environment:
    • Novell/SuSe Linux
    • HP-UX
    • Sun Solaris
    • Apple Mac OS

Results

  • Selected their Acme Systems B7500 after evaluating the following vendors:
    • IBM
    • Cisco
    • Oracle
    • Microsoft
  • Rated the differentiation of Acme’s capabilities as follows:
    • Ease of use: Highly Differentiated
    • Reliability: Extremely Differentiated
    • Scalability: Highly Differentiated
    • Performance: Highly Differentiated
  • Achieved a payback period of 6 months.
  • Reduced their IT infrastructure Capital Expenditures (CAPEX) by 10% to 24%.
  • Increased the productivity of their IT staff by 10% to 24% with their Acme Systems B7500.




About This Data

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