• Overall hardware cost savings compared to traditional fiber SAN.
• Reduce SME of SAN admins.
• Reduce SME of backup admins.
• Reduce third-party backup.
• Reduce datacenter footprint and complexity.
• DR software was an added bonus.

If the customers deploy the new HCI solution with backup, then it is cheaper. 

Our ROI is about two years. This is mainly because I committed to eliminating our entire NetApp (4 filers, maybe 2 dozen drawers) by the end of our lease in Q3, 2018.

We have not done a true calculation, but based upon the support needs and the reduction in the footprint, there's definitely an ROI.

When we did our financials, it became a wash based on what we were doing previous with regular hardware refreshes. However, the time savings on the administration side of things is huge. We had somebody who was dedicated pretty much full-time to hardware, and now, they spend about a quarter of their time a year on hardware-related issues.

N/A.

I have proven to my CIO that I have saved more money than expected. I am still calculating how much. 

We have not seen ROI yet.

As an early adopter of SimpliVity’s hyper-converged infrastructure, we have seen significant benefits to the solution. SimpliVity reduced our data center footprint from 20U to 4U, increasing our application delivery performance by 75 percent. It lowered our operational costs in a major way.

We haven't really seen ROI yet because we're still fairly new to the product.

Given we needed a datacenter refresh, we were able to implement SimpliVity at a cheaper cost than replacing our legacy compute and SAN. We inherited true business continuity (priceless)...and were able to prune our preexisting server backup solution. Just the backup solution software costs saved us >$15,000 annually. ROI was instant.

Return on investment could be quite good if you look at the five-year investment compared to other HCI solutions, because other HCI solutions don't include backup built in. If you take into account that you can consolidate even your backup solution, you have a solid TCO case. Backup is a quite big part of the cost of a data center, and if you can have that built in without any extra costs. SimpliVity backups are very efficient. Because you don't store backup, you don't need extra capacity in the same way as in a traditional backup solution. But if you can't include the backups in SimpliVity, it's much harder to motivate the solution.

The short version regarding ROI is that it's not good. It takes two engineers all day to solve an ESXi node-down issue, and it takes between two days and two weeks to bring it back.

HCI has indeed reduced the complexities of our server environment. My systems architect/engineer now has more time to work on other pressing projects and investigate new technologies, which he was able to acquire and implement. No need to work overtime to resolve issues anymore.

Not sure.

But in comparison to other solutions, SimpliVity gave us all we need bundled into one at a much cheaper price point.

We are seeing a return on investment.

I believe in the long run we found the reduced footprint, electricity, and other overhead costs, along with other reduced costs we had a 3 year ROI.

3 years.

We have seen ROI.

Varies based on use casesr... VDI, test/dev, production database and apps, etc.

It did not take me long to see a return on investment when using HPE SimpliVity.

In Latam is very different a ROI. Depends of the industry and all the return has more time to return

• Simpler operations
• No more monolithic SANs
• No SAN switches and having a native backup is pretty cool.

Still working on ROI.

I have not seen ROI.

I do not have hard numbers.

I'm not in finance, so I don't know the numbers, but I do know that I've since added 10 additional VMs and appliances, and can still add more without having to buy anything. I've saved on VM licensing because I was able to get rid of SRM. I couldn't even imagine how much it would cost to host all these servers in the public cloud!

2.5 years.

I have not seen ROI.

ROI is 100%.

Investing less time in configuration and management means that you will have more time to focus on what is really important: Your company's innovation and rapid commercialization.