WESTBOROUGH, Mass. – December 2, 2015 – SimpliVity, a leader in hyperconverged infrastructure revolutionizing enterprise IT, today announced the results of a Forrester Total Economic Impact ™ (TEI) study that examined the return on investment (ROI) that enterprises realize by deploying SimpliVity technology. The November 2015 study entitled The Total Economic Impact Of SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure, which was commissioned by SimpliVity and conducted by Forrester Consulting, found that customers who deployed SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure realized storage efficiencies of 60:1 on average and experienced a payback period of only 6.6 months for their investment.
The Forrester TEI study’s sophisticated methodology measures the financial impact IT initiatives have on customers and weighs the enabling value of technology in increasing operational efficiencies throughout an organization. To evaluate the economic impact of SimpliVity, Forrester interviewed enterprises currently using SimpliVity to obtain data with respect to costs, benefits and risks.
In addition to quantifying an exceptionally short payback period, the study also uncovered that SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure provides an ROI of 224 percent over three years, with a 3.7X reduction in TCO. Additional results revealed that using SimpliVity resulted in:
- A 10:1 reduction in data center footprint and storage efficiency of 60:1
- Backup management savings of three hours per day and consulting hour savings of 24 hours per week on average
- Reduced power consumption of 45%
- Improved disaster recovery operations, which enterprises found too difficult to manage with their legacy infrastructure
- Increased application performance through the elimination of IOPs
- More time available for business innovation
SimpliVity is the only hyperconverged infrastructure provider to combine all the functionality of an entire data center stack below the hypervisor—including compute, storage, network switching, replication, backup and more—onto industry-standard x86 hardware.
“Prior to SimpliVity, the organizations [interviewed for the study] faced expensive upgrades to their existing server and storage infrastructure, increasing complexity to keep up with best practices for backup/recover and disaster recovery, and, rapidly growing virtual desktop infrastructure deployments,” stated the study. “After implementing SimpliVity, the organizations retired VM hosts and traditional storage siloes and replaced VM hosts with SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure systems. By retiring these assets, the organizations saved on system upgrades, system leases, professional services, and data center real estate.”
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