HPE SimpliVity Benefits

it_user582870 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Infrastructure Architect at loanDepot

Backups are all automatic and admins do not have to worry if the production VMs are being backed up. Easy backup policy with no LUN administration is also one less task to worry about. DR and DR replication are no longer an issue; no longer have to seed a SAN locally and ship it out to the DR site.

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Head of technical Follow-up and Development at Greater Amman Municipality

HPE simplivity makes the computer technogy as simple and enjoyable to use as possible, HPE Simplivity design efficient, effective and satisfying. 

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it_user609492 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director, Infrastructure and Data Integrity at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are now backing up 32 TB an hour and 760 TB a day!
We are seeing a 107:1 efficiency rating.

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MN
IT architect - Hosting and Cloud at Kraft Heinz

It let us create our regional data centers without a huge investment. We didn't have to have a lot of VL servers or an entire chassis to build out an ESX farm or attach storage.

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CR
Chief Technology Officer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

It's allowed us to be more efficient in disk space usage with a reduction of 47 to 1 in hard drive space.

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SH
IT Director at McInnes Cooper

Looking at the way that our infrastructure team works now, we don't think about infrastructure, storage, or compute anymore. The solution just works. It is same with the backup and replication side of things, as it just works on schedule. We don't have to manage it tightly, like we used to. That has freed up those resources to do more application delivery type functionalities.

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DC
IT Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees
  • Noticeably better VM performance due to all-flash storage
  • Incredibly fast VM backups and restores
  • Backups and restores take less than one minute.
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JM
Manager -Information Technology at Carolina Sunrock

I have saved time and money by moving to this platform. I am happy to share my results on the amount of power, time, and space saved.

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DC
IT Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees

The all-flash storage in SimpliVity provides much better performance that the spinning-disk of our previous virtualization system. The extremely fast backups and restores (typically less than 1 minute) enable us to easily backup all our VMs every 2 hours. Lastly, the incredibly high data reduction ratio through compression and deduplication enables us to store 38 Days of full backups done every 2 hours in a remarkably small space. We're currently seeing a data reduction ratio of almost 300:1.

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CG
IT Manager at Penoles

It has improved our response time.

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SS
VP/Chief Technology Officer at Francis Drilling Fluids, Ltd.

SimpliVity allowed us to radically simplify our infrastructure. The solution provides superior value and innovation in a converged solution. We chose SimpliVity over Nutanix because OmniCube is architected with inline dedupe and compression. This includes simple backup and data protection for all our VMs, and can be managed centrally from one login and interface through VMware vCenter.

When SimpliVity announced the availability of its solution with Cisco, we jumped at the opportunity. Now, we are running all of our core applications on the SimpliVity/Cisco platform.

The technology is a game changer. It represents the future of convergence. I love the "data center-in-a-box" concept, and it is backed by solid hardware and all the functionality needed, including data deduplication, replication, and WAN optimization.

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it_user226710 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

With the OmniStack system, we can deploy a system in a Stretched cluster configuration with a sync replication and a disaster recovery site with a few clicks of a mouse; all are managed from the vCenter and we don’t need to upgrade the internet connectivity, because the efficiency data management works fine. Management of the system is simplified and the complexity of the system is reduced.

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RR
Lead Systems Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

It has improved our backup situation by reducing its complexity and improving recovery time.

As a refresh, we've improved our CPU and memory capability which allows us to build a foundation and continue to move forward in our app development. We can release new applications.

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Raul Borges - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager at Nuxiba

In our case, we have an improvement in the operatives area because the support for that server space is minimal. For instance, I don't have to be an expert to work with them.

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DS
Junior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

With HPE SimpliVity, hosting applications has become very easy and fast.

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MW
IT Director at Celgene Corporation

It has lessened our burden on multiple different products, so they are under one umbrella. This has been economically good.

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JB
Senior Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We had an incident once where one of our primary servers in a retail store went down. It took us less than a second to do a restore. It came back up and we were up and running. It used to take us days to restore those servers.

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CB
Director of IT at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees

We update our main pharmacy system monthly at three locations. Standing up a test environment for validation takes just minutes. Also, during the upgrade process after hours our maintenance window has decreased over 50% with blazing fast entire server backups.

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Raphaël Julmy - PeerSpot reviewer
Architecte Infrastructures at IT-Med

SimpliVity is integrated into the virtual center, so there is no additional management software or management interface. It's quite simple to manage because there is only one interface. It is all in one, which makes it different from other solutions.

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DL
Consultant at Trigonova GmbH

It helps branch offices in having an integrated solution for backup. That's the greatest benefit of SimpliVity.

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DH
Senior Datacenter Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

The main way the solution improves an organization is it simplifies daily use, and it cuts costs for the customer, because they often come from a silo-based storage and computer environment. That equals a lot more components, and you have to be more knowledgeable to be able to administer a traditional storage and computer-based solution. With SimpliVity, you have a hyper-converged infrastructure, which means everything is server-based and storage is software-based.

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DY
IT Director at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

In a thinly provisioned IT staffed environment, we were able to accomplish our work without having to stay after-hours anymore. Our backup RPO and RTO policies are met and done during business hours. Issues are resolved by calling one support line/number. No more headaches and hassles with finger-pointing blame between/among technology vendors. We now have a DR site with the ability to failover our production servers.

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it_user531087 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Administrator at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

We introduced OmniStack as a tool in helping effect a datacenter migration and its ability to execute rapid backup and migration of VMs across geographically distant sites was integral in the success of the project. By placing OmniCubes at both datacenters and federating them together, we were able to pre-populate the destination site's nodes with the unique 4K blocks composing our VMs and make the final production move in a matter of hours instead of days.

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JP
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

The department that ran our reporting in the legacy environment, it took them about six hours to run their report. Now, it is taking the same department less than an hour.

We aren't using a lot of space because it does everything that we need it to do on the back-end, which is a good thing.

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it_user1130133 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer - Midrange Hardware Standards at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

If something goes wrong with a patch, or whatever, and we need to make a recovery, it takes about six seconds to recover and get it back to normal. Previously, it could take hours.

We are a bit more productive with this solution because we don't have to spend as much time managing backups and recoveries.

It is easier to manage than what we are doing before.

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CB
Director of IT at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees

We went from having our core data spread across tapes that would have come down to days of downtime to working with SimpliVity, where we can lose an entire datacenter and still be fully operational within minutes.

I can also now have my IT generalist do daily tasks easily as it is very easy to use.

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AH
IT Manager at Penoles

The replication from the different centers (the main to the secondary) has been very great. It is good value for us.

SimpliVity is simple to integrate with our backups.

We have used it for testing.

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IT Director at Ströer Media AG - Turkey

You have to manage so much hardware if you have IT systems, and each system has a different web interface, log, and reporting service. When you check all of them in a day, you don't have enough time for other work, but I can manage all the services from a single interface with SimpliVity. It saves me time.

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BR
IT Systems Architect at Brigham Young University

It makes it more efficient for us. Instead of having to get support for multiple different solutions like storage, compute, network, and having to contact individual vendors, it's all one solution. We can contact one person, get support over the phone without having to call multiple vendors, and not have them point fingers at each other.

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BR
IT Systems Architect at Brigham Young University

Prior to Simplivity, we struggled to complete weekly file server backups over the weekend, and full VM restores would take hours. With Simplivity we are able to backup file servers every 4 hours and restore them in less than 20 seconds. These file servers are approximately 2TB.

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EL
VP Comercial at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It makes it easy for our customers to manage all virtual machines and different workloads and be agile.

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KP
Manager, IT Infrastructure at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It has helped us a lot. HPE SimpliVity reduces the administrative tasks for the system admin. It doesn't require many people for support. One or two guys are enough.

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DL
Consultant at Trigonova GmbH

The biggest benefit of this solution is that if you use it, you can use it for the company headquarters and also for all the branches. You use the same system, only a smaller size. With SimipliVity you can also use the included backup solution. You don't need any other solution to back up the data or to transfer it.

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KB
Manager, Corp IT Infrastructure at Domo

There are three big improvements that SimpliVity brought to our organization: 

  1. The ability to quickly and reliably create and maintain a disaster recovery environment over a relatively, low bandwidth WAN connection.
  2. The reduction in physical storage, due to SimpliVity's data virtualization layer, which includes inline deduplication and compression.
  3. The consolidation of many technology solutions into one solution, which resulted in lower overall costs in the form of fewer software and hardware purchases, reduced backup costs, lower bandwidth charges between sites, and less administrative overhead.
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it_user543450 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT at Law Firm

We now have much lower RPOs, from hours to seconds. It is now much simpler for us to deploy additional workloads, since we do not have to take care anymore of storage provisioning. The Simplivity datastores are so efficient that the never seem to fill up, or at least not that fast anymore.

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it_user683289 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at Jackson laboratory

It frees up time for the other system administrators. We've found better performance. Even our developers are seeing faster response times in executing codes, so they can get their code done more quickly. It has just increased the overall time.

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it_user364671 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It has less latency (from 6ms to about 1ms).

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it_user572493 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

Our organization went from not having DR to having a fully implemented and tested DR and DR plan in 6 months with SimpliVity. Migration off our legacy solution to SimpliVity was seamless.

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it_user543450 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT at Law Firm

We consolidated five servers and one SAN with three arrays into two OmniCubes. Our SAN was full with 20 TB at the time of migration, and we accomodate the whole amount of data into less as the half of the disk space. Since then the infrastructure grew constantly, but the data foot print on the Omnicubes barely increases. Dedup is currently around 3.3. Additionally, we implemented DR with a third OmniCube residing in a second datacenter, where we replicate our data. Recovery of VMs is done in a couple of seconds. We now almost never use our backup software to restore data anymore.

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it_user708465 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

This solution has improved our organization because it provides ease of management and offers a single management platform for the entire staff.

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PC
Sr Infrastructure Engineer at Delta Plastics of the South

Disaster recovery, backup simplification, deduplication, and compression features have helped improve my organization. 

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AaronSMR - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator with 201-500 employees

Our backups are now more efficient and reliable because the SimpliVity system manages them so much better for us. It allows us to replicate them as often as we like to another pair of SimpliVity boxes at one of our remote sites.

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it_user684993 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cloud Data Architect

It has allowed us to reduce our rack footprint. It allowed us to simplify our administration.

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SS
VP/Chief Technology Officer at Francis Drilling Fluids, Ltd.

Simplified our DR Solution.

Lowered the Backup Increment from 1 hour to under 15 minutes.

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ET
Chief of Information Technology at SOFTYS

HPE Simplivity improved the space of disk with deduplication, reduced the time of backups and recovers.

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GF
Presales and Consulting at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

We find the solution exciting and rewarding. When we first began with the product, we realized that it wasn't for larger markets. It was meant for only small business enterprises. But with time, the product expanded to incorporate larger markets and became more appropriate for our market. So it's more of an exciting experience these days.

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IP
Director at ISA

We have VxRail and are comparing HPE SimpliVity deduplication with that of Vxrail.

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JB
Systems Engineer III at Pitt Ohio Express

SimpliVity has provided our organization with a cost effective DR/data protection solution. Training time has be reduced due to SimpliVity's seamless integration with vCenter Flex and Flash clients.

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it_user680265 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems/Storage Engineer at Banc of California

Overall benefits include reducing the cost of administration. We have a small head count of IT. This simplifies the job duties and we don't have to worry about performance or backup issues.

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SV
Software & Services Advisor at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

One customer deployed the OmniCube for a test/dev environment for it's ease of use and performance. Developers can spin up new VM's with no capacity or IO impact, easily without learning a new storage platform. And as for performance, the customer had a VMAX for primary storage, the OmniCube offered similar performance for developers at a fraction of the cost.

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MB
Senior Product Manager at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

A solution that provide a simple way to HA , is absolutely efficient and improve the work for the IT team

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AS
Technical Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Our clients have been very happy with the data efficiency features (OmniCube accelerator card) and the HPE/SimpliVity HyperGuarantee, which is unique. For one of our clients who needed backup capability but did not want to invest in a dedicated backup tool, SimpliVity's native backup with app consistency came in handy. When you do this across more than 80 sites, the savings is significant and the WAN bandwidth efficiency is impressive.

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it_user713316 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Systems Architect at a university

The tool makes it more efficient for us. Instead of having to get support for multiple different solutions like storage, compute, and network, and having to contact individual vendors, it's all one solution. We can contact one person and get support over the phone. We don't have to call multiple vendors, having them point fingers at each other.

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KB
Manager, Corp IT Infrastructure at Domo

We didn't have a really good method in place to get our live data into a DR site and that was the primary driver for SimpliVity. By installing and implementing SimpliVity, it made it very simple to get all of our critical systems in a state that they could be easily brought up in a DR site.

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it_user680217 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Virtualization at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

It allowed me to have a hyper converged system that grows with multiple training centers and data centers.

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it_user592341 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineer/Virtualization Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Our company acts as a SimpliVity implementation partner. We also do platform maintenance/management for customers who do not want to do it themselves. We only get positive feedback from customers as to performance, RTO/RPO times, and day-to-day management.

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GR
System Administrator at Full House

SimpliVity helps us to manage and has made deduplication work really well.

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MK
Chief System & Security Officer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Although it is still early, we are optimistic that it will decrease our management costs and many resource costs due to the fact that everything is included in one box in SimpliVity. That includes the storage network, CPU, memory, et cetera. If everything is in one box, it will likely reduce our managed services cost.

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GK
Senior IT Specialist at Servicios de Consultorias de IT

The backup solution is a good functionality that the client is very happy with.

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it_user335280 - PeerSpot reviewer
Account Manager at a tech services company

It was an important step to add this product to our portfolio because it meets our customers needs and demands.

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it_user605250 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

We streamlined our production servers in the way of space management, better redundancy, and efficiency.

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CO
Director at STORAGECORP Tecnologia

It's a good solution because they implement the PCX cards differently to improve speed. SimpliVity worked well in supporting the implementation of VDI.

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KB
Network Manager at a marketing services firm

We can get backups faster. We have a smaller footprint for hardware, which takes up less space. So, we use less electricity and floor space.

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it_user784089 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IM Manager

We used to have a lot more units reserved in the rack for virtual machine hosting. Now it is only two units per site.

Another improvement of course is the backup, the disaster recovery functionality, how it behaves, how fast the backups are done. And the reduction of data.

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it_user683262 - PeerSpot reviewer
Account Manager with 51-200 employees

Our customer has a limited IT staff, so they were looking at something that will:

  • Be a little more centralized
  • Be easier for them to manage
  • Give them the functionality that their customers really need
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it_user582882 - PeerSpot reviewer
GM IT Operations at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

We no have the ability to restore a production environment to multiple development environments with a few clicks in a very short time. With 6 development teams working on different modules on the same system, this helps a lot in their agile approach.

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it_user168297 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Backups - policies are built in and managed using the SimpliVity extension in vSphere. It makes working with backups and recovery extremely simple and removes all the complicated tasks of backup storage management. The ability to place backups at any datacenter within the vSphere environment is nice too. These are full backups too, not just snapshots.

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JN
Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

This solution was an easy way for us to ensure high availability along with offsite backup of data. It has made offsite recovery a faster process than in the past.

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it_user784044 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager ICT at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Fast data recovery
  • Low on operational costs
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it_user584109 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales & Project Manager at a tech services company

Adding a node to the federation is as simple as plugging it into the network, selecting it in the GUI, and clicking "Join".

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it_user530316 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a non-tech company with 501-1,000 employees

We now backup our core VMs on-site every 10 minutes and off-site every 15 minutes.

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it_user609312 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Systems Administrator at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

The inline dedupe and compression has allowed me to run all my servers and appliances (total 60) in an HA configuration while taking up just 8U of rack space (4x2U nodes). There is incredibly fast I/O and with the OmniCubes, my users are spoiled with the super-fast reads and writes. Did I mention that we truly enjoy our 99.999% up time?

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it_user684990 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Tech Consultant for Data Center with 51-200 employees

We are resellers, so it allows us to sell our customers solutions that make their work easier. They can make a port more rapidly and fit a broader range of cloud data platforms.

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it_user322023 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Systems Administrator at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

Our deploy times are greatly reduced, but what I love most is our ability to sync de-duped data across to our DR site quickly and efficiently. I hope I never need it, but I feel much better about our situation now that we have SimpliVity if we ever need to fail over to our DR site.

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it_user530316 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a non-tech company with 501-1,000 employees

As a small IT shop we spend less time managing our VMware infrastructure which gives us more time to focus on the front end of our business.

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it_user164979 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Our RPO has gone from 8 hours to 3 hours and we can go back to 6 months of datasets.

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it_user784092 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Analyst at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

Probably in the business continuity scenarios, it is going to help us.

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LB
IT Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

It has improved the delivery value for my clients.

It has reduced my data center activities.

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DT
Production Support Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It easily backs up our systems, allowing us to recover them.

It makes my job simple.

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it_user683259 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Operational efficiency is definitely one of the biggest benefits. A lot of times, when you write a TCO and ROI, one of the biggest things is administration. So they could get rid of all those man hours worrying about babysitting their SAN and their servers, and the network, etc. Take those hours and put them back into real value for the business working on issues with the applications; not the SAN and the infrastructure.

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WA
Co-Founder at BIGBOOM ASIA CO.,LTD.

HPE SimpliVity can improve our DR solution.

I would recommend this for the Hospitality industry because of the data recovery. I think that HPE SimpliVity is the answer.

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LC
VMware Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It helps us in supplying desktops to users.

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AD
Senior Visual Compute Engineer at CrowdStrike

Reduced storage footprint of primary and secondary copies of data and WAN replication bandwidth with good performance.

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it_user603141 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works
  • Standardization of ROBOs
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it_user590748 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Systems Administrator at a tech services company

We have marketing users that tend to save over their files by accident and before SimpliVity, I could not restore a file from 15 minutes ago. Now, I can do that for my users.

I also was able to install a disaster recovery site with this solution and it has given our IT team peace of mind knowing we have full backups offsite.

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NB
System Engineer (Storage/HCI) at a construction company with 201-500 employees

The improvement to the company has been in terms of data reduction, we're storing more data with a lower footprint.

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JC
Gerente de ingeniería with 11-50 employees

More velocity in applications.

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SC
Technical Director at Baro International Ltd.

From eight ESXi servers (local HA only, without site DR) to three SimpliVity solutions in prod site with HA and one SimpliVity solution in DR site.

For setting up site-to-site DR.

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it_user784002 - PeerSpot reviewer
Platforms Engineer

We are still on a PoC. We have not pushed it out that far.

We are expecting the speed that we have seen so far.

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it_user607584 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Backups are done on disk, and no longer use tapes. Also, restoration of backups is within seconds.

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it_user850320 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure and Technology Consultant at Infinia Solutions

It allows you to take advantage of the unique platform of computing, cloud management, storage, and integrated networks, as well as software-defined data management, which is easy to use. 

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it_user818898 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT solution Specilaist with 11-50 employees

Improves backup time and DR solution. We can backup with more frequency and minimize RPO and RTO.

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it_user769266 - PeerSpot reviewer
Gerente Comercial at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Simplifies the operations of the server and the administration area.

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Buyer's Guide
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