HPE PROLIANT SERVER SOLUTIONS CASE STUDY
Introduction
This case study of Moore Ingram Johnson & Steele is based on a February 2021 survey of HPE ProLiant Server solutions customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.
“With HPE ProLiant, we spend far less time with hardware and maintenance issues so we can spend more time addressing the client’s specific needs and functionality issues as they arise.”
Challenges
The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select HPE ProLiant Server solutions:
- Drivers for adding-on, replacing, or upgrading your existing infrastructure with an HPE ProLiant Server solution:
- Outdated business and data security
- Limited reliability
- Limited support
- High server deployment and maintenance complexity
- High server costs for small and medium-sized businesses
- Increasing complexity in server operating systems
Use Case
The key features and functionalities of HPE ProLiant Server solutions that the surveyed company uses:
- Consolidating the following applications on their HPE ProLiant Server solution:
- Virtualization
- Storage and backup
- Multi-function business applications (Ex. SQL Database, Storage, Virtualization, etc)
- Rates the value of the following capabilities of HPE ProLiant Server solutions compared to similar solutions in the market:
- Performance: very valuable
- Reliability: very valuable
- Availability: valuable
- Affordability: valuable
- Security: very valuable
- Support: very valuable
- Manageability (including integration with HPE iLO): very valuable
- Access to HPE Financial Service: valuable
Results
The surveyed company achieved the following results with HPE ProLiant Server solutions:
- Reduced time to perform the following administrative tasks with HPE ProLiant Servers:
- Setting-up servers: 26 – 50%
- Performance Troubleshooting: 51% – 75%
- Managing & maintaining: 75%+
- Performing upgrades: 75%+
- Responding to customer requests: 51% – 75%
- Made improvements in the following areas after using HPE ProLiant Servers:
- Reduced server operating expenses: 51% – 75%
- Reduced total cost of ownership: 51% – 75%
- Reduced downtime: 75%+
- Increased the number of clients supported: 75%+
- Reduced the number of help desk calls: 75%+