Introduction
This case study of a state & local government is based on an April 2019 survey of HPE Synergy customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.
“With HPE Synergy we have reduced the footprint in the server room and it has enabled us to get more VMs on each host.”
Challenges
The business challenges that led the profiled organization 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
- Poor hardware utilization driving up CAPEX
- Too many infrastructure platforms to manage with multiple processes driving up OPEX
- An inability to integrate and scale to meet future business demands
Use Case
The key features and functionalities of HPE Synergy that the surveyed organization uses:
- Uses the following application workload/s with HPE Synergy:
- Virtualization and VDI (eg. VMware, HyperV, Citrix, Oracle VM)
- Graphics for VDI
- Rates the value of the following capabilities provided by HPE Synergy:
- One infrastructure for any workload eliminating costly silos: valuable
- Ability to deploy at cloud-like speed and scale quickly accelerating application and service delivery: valuable
- Simplified daily operations with automated infrastructure increasing productivity and control across the data center: valuable
- Developer-friendly infrastructure enabling faster and Developer-friendly infrastructure enabling faster and smarter deployment of apps and services: 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
Results
The surveyed organization achieved the following results with HPE Synergy:
- Improved the following metrics by using HPE Synergy:
- Reduced the time to provision and re-provision infrastructure: 26-50%
- Reduced the time to deploy new OS and software applications: 26-50%
- Reduced the time to perform ongoing software driver and firmware updates: 26-50%
- Reduced the time to stand up infrastructure by their DevOps teams: 26-50%
- Improved application performance (Oracle, VMware): 26-50%
- Reduced cost in the following areas since using HPE Synergy:
- IT resources optimization: 26% to 50%
- Automation and simplified operations: 26% to 50%
- Cost per VM: >50%
- Infrastructure management: 26% to 50%
- Provisioning times: >50%
- Third party software integrations: 26% to 50%