HPE SimpliVity vs. Springpath

SimpliVity Omnicube is well suited in any environment. Especially if you are not currently using any VMware or Hyper-V products. It is a great gateway into the virtualization of your data center. For environments where VMware is currently being used, SimpliVity will be a great addition. Less cabling is required. Better performance is guaranteed. Two boxes are required as they work as a high availability pair. As the years go by you can simply just add a box or two to grow your environment. You can also get them configured with NVidia Grid cards to bring graphical performance to the VDI environment.

Incentivized

I have experienced excellent services throughout the period I have been using this great platform. We have been able to get [a] universal storage platform for all our data that enhances security for any saved information. Our team implementing projects and tasks from remote areas can easily interlink with our team members from the organization for teamwork.

Incentivized

• HPE SimpliVity has built in incremental backups, and the restores are incredibly fast. I have seen 2TB VMs restored in 20 seconds.
• HPE SimpliVity has also made DR/BC a possibility. We have purchased and off-site DR box at a fraction of what tradition DR would cost.

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• Integration of data across the entire company.
• Updating all our team members on any new event taking place.

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• Upgrades are better than they used to be, but still complex.
• Make existing RapidDR product integral, versus a separate licensed component.

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• The product is enriched with great features.
• I have not experienced any poor performance.

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It sits nicely ontop of VMWare and is easy enough to use. Some improvements to the UI could be done, such as placing buttons where it is expected to have them not in unusual places, so you have to hunt for them. The backup and restore is intuitive and makes things super easy if you need to do a quick rollback. Space savings on multiple VMs and backups means we are backing up more than we need which gives us confidence in what we do. Updating the system is also fairly easy and their support has always been fantastic. They will contact us if they detect any issues, usually before we notice them!

Incentivized

Support is very good. With proactive support, you are supported by an engineer in North America who answers the phone and immediately begins assisting with your issue. The folks I have dealt with in the last several years have been very skilled and it is rare to have a ticket open for more than a day or two. Issues affecting production are dealt with appropriately and are escalated within the support organization.

Incentivized

There were not many others > 4 years ago that stacked up. Nutanix at the time just was too pricey compared to what HPE SimpliVity offered.

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Springpath is the only platform that is unique in enhancing excellent networking across our organization. I have not worked with similar products though this platform ensures that internet connection between our company and customers is excellently managed. It gives us reliable and secure data center for saving all customers contacts for future use during email marketing campaigns.

Incentivized

• We have been able to go from spending 53L per annum on backups to 23K with the HPE SimpliVity Solution
• When not needing Servers, Storage, and networking and combining it all into the one we have saved a considerable amount of space and money.
• The DR and backup confidence we have has meant we have been able to reduce risk and meet our cyber objectives and RPO / RTO times.

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• It has performed effectively contributing to positive ROI.
• We have been able to achieve all our set plans based on proper networking.

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