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HPE GreenLake vs Pure Storage Evergreen One comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

HPE GreenLake
Ranking in Managed Cloud Services
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Consumption Services (1st)
Pure Storage Evergreen One
Ranking in Managed Cloud Services
2nd
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Storage (15th), File and Object Storage (16th)
 

Featured Reviews

MohamedKhairy - PeerSpot reviewer
Robust scalability and flexibility in managing workflow
There is a need for improved support in HPE GreenLake, including more administrators and engineers to provide faster resolution for issues. Storage issues can impact the entire data center, especially in virtualization environments where multiple virtual machines are connected. Availability of hardware and timely monitoring have been reported as a problem, with some difficulties in obtaining hardware due to limited stock in the local market.
Michael-Daniel - PeerSpot reviewer
Exceptional speed improves performance with short and long-term storage
We are using it in-house for our data center to run all of our VMware environment and our VDI environment on. Infrastructure consumption, as well as short-term and long-term storage, is included The speed of the product is quite a bit better in performance than the previous environment we were…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It is the flexible way to pay for everything that you need and pay as you go."
"It sort of lines up with our direction to move to the cloud. By using a hybrid cloud service to get us there, this allows us to run our legacy workloads on-premise. Those which are not really suited to a proper cloud."
"HPE GreenLake is highly stable."
"Absolute flexibility for scaling storage needs on demand."
"Its performance is a significant improvement over the legacy stack that we had."
"The solution integrates well with Dell, Cisco switches, or other switches."
"The biggest thing that it gives us is reportability; that's the critical component. By giving us a monthly bill that is expandable based on usage, we're able to report back to the organization on the value that we're actually getting out of the hardware platform."
"It has helped us with the planning, and in concert with this, we are doing a lot of virtualizations. For a lot of cases, we are bringing in less gear and equipment to be able to accomplish the same things. It makes better use of what we do bring in."
"We have snapshots. We put snapshots on disks, and we can save information. In the case of ransomware, everything is in the snapshot. We have a snapshot lock on it, so it's safe."
"The speed of the product is quite a bit better in performance than the previous environment we were running on, and it seems to have a better feature set."
"The speed of the product is quite a bit better in performance than the previous peer environment we were running on, and it seems to have a better feature set."
"The Evergreen program is excellent, and the pricing is quite reasonable. My friends who work there are doing very well and consistently achieving strong results. Like any company, they experience occasional downturns but perform impressively overall."
 

Cons

"The support service needs improvement. The support team isn't very active in addressing cases. It should also provide a web application."
"Part of the integration, with cutting things over to Unisys, may have hurt us a bit. We had a couple of rough implementations earlier this year. Part of that was due to some internal system changes on HPE's side. We are keeping an eye on this to make sure it doesn't happen again."
"Both times that we've had to increase the hardware, the deployment took way longer than expected. In addition, we haven't yet gotten to a use point where the cost is below what it would cost us to provision the same set of services on HPE hardware outside of the GreenLake service."
"I would like to have more detail in the monitoring."
"I would really like to see more granularity in the costing model. That's the one limitation that we do have: We have a lot of departments. We want to be able to break down, in a granular way, that this department is using X amount of resources, that department is using Y amount of resources... I want to be able to tag it and say, "This is this department's fees, this is that department's fees." That way I could charge back internally to my own departments."
"There is a need for improved support in HPE GreenLake, including more administrators and engineers to provide faster resolution for issues."
"I am still struggling with monitoring, particularly with OpsRamp, which is not fully customized to our needs, especially for disaster recovery."
"The time to receive a price when I am going to a proposal is too long."
"It would be nice to have support in Swedish."
"To me, I think it's a little expensive. Then again, you get what you pay for."
"The only potential drawback is that Pure Storage might be overkill if you don't need microsecond response times."
"I'm not sure if any improvements are needed."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Our first year costs were approximately $1.2 million instead of spending five to six million dollars."
"HPE GreenLake payment model is you pay for what you use. You can purchase a yearly, quarterly, or half-year license. The overall price of the solution is a little high and hopeful there can be better margins in the future."
"It's a small cost per month compared to that one-time purchase. The big thing is if you get your one-time purchase wrong, then you are buying a lot more. With GreenLake, if we miss estimate (which with all the planning, you usually don't), we sign a piece of paper, and then they send more equipment in."
"The price could be more flexible."
"Pricing is based on usage plateaus. The more you use, the more you pay."
"Right now we're paying about $180,000 per year."
"If you're used to buying HPE servers, it's less expensive than that. I don't really compare competitor servers because HPE has never given me any reason to look otherwise. However, if you get good pricing on HPE servers, you get better pricing on GreenLake."
"In terms of pricing, it's a bit on the higher side."
"The pricing is very good."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Retailer
6%
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about HPE GreenLake?
The solution's technical support does an excellent job.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HPE GreenLake?
We had a service and cost model established on utilization for specific KPIs, and we were measured by memory and storage, with no costs for CPU consumption.
What needs improvement with HPE GreenLake?
I am still struggling with monitoring, particularly with OpsRamp, which is not fully customized to our needs, especially for disaster recovery. In our scenario, we define a disaster recovery test c...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pure Storage Evergreen One?
To me, it's a little expensive. Then again, you get what you pay for. It's actually less than what we were using before, and even the service contract side is less than what we were using before.
What is your primary use case for Pure Storage Evergreen One?
We are using it in-house for our data center to run all of our VMware environment and our VDI environment on. Infrastructure consumption, as well as short-term and long-term storage, is included.
 

Also Known As

GreenLake Flex Capacity, HPE Flexible Capacity, HPE FlexCap
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Sample Customers

Capgemini Finland Infrastructure Services, Sogeti BeLux, Accenture
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