I used a Cisco product in the past and am currently unsure if the product is still produced.

We work sometimes with Dell since some customers prefer it. Mostly we work with HPE ConvergedSystem. 

We tested EMC with three ACI systems in our environment. As far as I remember, we put our exchange systems on the environment. However, they failed. We tested Nutanix's Systems in our environment as well. Both of these were tested in our environment quite a long time ago.

We moved away from traditional data management and started focusing on big data ecosystems.

As we evaluated big data ecosystems, we knew we wanted a hybrid approach, both an open source and an appliance-based architecture. And that drove us to look at HP and other solutions as part of that ecosystem.

I have experience with several IT solutions such as HP, Dell, and Nutanix.

Our first customer evaluated Nutanix and Converged before going with Converged. HP has an advantage because they have hardware and Nutanix is software. That's the reason the customer preferred to make the fusion with the hardware because it reduced the overhead of the processing. Secondly, HP enables a backup in the same solution, and with Nutanix you have to integrate another product from another software and another vendor. 

Our company policy is that every five years we have to upgrade our equipment.

Everything in our environment is HPE. Recently, some other vendors have been knocking on our door. We have done our research and what we found is that nothing out there is comparable to HPE. Since it's working for us, we don't see a reason to switch from HPE.

All of our SAP consultants realized that we need to go to with HANA. R3 is over and every one is doing a migration. It’s hard to move out of Oracle, but we feel we have no choice.

We used to use Dell blades and we didn't have Virtual Connect, so configuring the networks and all of that for our servers took a lot longer. It's easier to provision the server now that we've moved to HPE and Virtual Connect, and how the ConvergedSystem is architected makes it easier. Just ease of configuring networks and configuring your server.