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HPE Private Cloud

Score9.6 out of 10

9 Reviews and Ratings

What is HPE Private Cloud?

Available on HPE Greenlake, HPE offers self-managed private cloud on demand, or a fully managed cloud experience for bare metal, containers, and VMs in a private environment.

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HPE Cloud Volume - For all storage need

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using it for backups storage in Cloud and also its being used for hosting few smaller Applications. Using HPE Cloud Volumes for backup solution has significantly reduced our cost for maintaining backups On-Premise and also backups can be accessed across data centers. Hosting Applications in HPE Cloud Volumes has increased the reliability of the Application.

Pros

  • Backups on Cloud
  • Application Hosting
  • Provide storage for platform/geographical migration

Cons

  • Not suitable for small scale enterprises
  • Initial setup is bit difficult
  • Pricing can be more flexible which can suits different customer of different needs.

Most Important Features

  • Consumption based pricing model
  • Data encryption
  • Support with other Cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP etc

Return on Investment

  • Backups on HPE Cloud Volumes has significantly reduced the cost of on premise handling of backups
  • It provided storage for datacenter move which reduced the migration time
  • Hosting smaller application in HPE Cloud Volumes has helped in saving operating cost.

Alternatives Considered

Qlik Replicate, IBM Informix on Cloud and NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Other Software Used

AWS Backup, Veritas NetBackup, Oracle ZFS

HPE Cloud Volume is Best For your Mutlicloud/Onpremises Backup Needs.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In todays Corporate world, Its very important how you safeguard your most important data and also How ease it can berecoveredWe were using Traditional Backup appliances but its really time consuming and costly to manage and butit did not able to address our dynamic and distributed business environment Backup needs.So while we were checking few options in the same technology,We got a demo from HPE Cloud team How they can Migrate our existing data storage infrastructure to the HPE Cloud volumes with use cases.The Greatest thing is You can easily change where you backup without having to change existing Backup workflowJust You can set it the Automated Backup policies in just few clicks and also the same in Just few clickyou can recover your Backup data.We have need to Encrypt our Backup data this is also addressed By HPE cloud Volume.The One of best use cases we had is, we need to deploy the backup solution for few Standalone remote sites So We have Deployed HPE Cloud solution for our Remote site Infra structure

Pros

  • It Really simplifying our day to day operations for engineers to maintain the backup needs, aligning our infra to actual use
  • You can leverage efficient,and, we have kind of mixed needs for cloud and on-premises storage, It does exceptionally well
  • It really provides a Ransomware Protection and long-term retention.
  • It delivers simple diaster recovery and also its statisfy our backup needs from the edge to cloud for our genesys applications.

Cons

  • The pricing is something which we really need to think about whether our IT budget has to
  • go for this solution.
  • It has many features which makes a lot of complex to understand this tool and use compared to
  • other competitors like Netapp
  • Loading Speed is also Bit slow.

Most Important Features

  • The Most important features in HPE which we use for our organization is HPE storeonce Virtual drive
  • We use the Mutli-directional edge features for our Genesys contact center needs
  • We use the Copy management features, it provides Instant snapshots and clones , So in the event of any disaster it is very -easy to use replication from on-premises storage to HPE cloud Volumes for disaster recovery

Return on Investment

  • Deduplication and compression are in a very good ration, its support HPE Catalyst product which is very faster than NPS
  • If you have the Huge data then its increase your costly of using this solution.
  • we are using ESG validation ,so creating a backup store and restoring to HPE cloud voumes block and also integrating with backup ISVs really helped lot to our needs

Alternatives Considered

Azure NetApp Files and Tivoli

Other Software Used

Azure NetApp Files, Tivoli, Dell EMC RecoverPoint