SMB Customer Scenarios

Instructions:

• Identify which HPE Small Business Solution(s) can be suitable for this customer and explain your choice.
• Use the Configuration Guides in order to propose a specific solution or solutions.
• Describe how the chosen solution addresses the customer’s challenges.

AQS College is a small but expanding college. The student population is currently growing, and the IT Director needs to provision IT resources to accommodate this expansion which is affecting the management systems.

Some of the workloads have peaks and troughs, for example when students prepare for and take exams. The IT infrastructure has grown organically over time and includes 25 disparate management servers some of which are very outdated.

The IT Director would like to take the University’s IT systems in a new direction which would accommodate unpredictable workloads, using the cheapest option where possible and the most performant option when required.

Other important considerations are agility, data security, data retention, cost and ease of future upgrades and reduced data centre costs.

Business Continuity is extremely important to the college. Should the IT infrastructure fail then both research and teaching would be affected. A reliable and proven business continuity solution from a trusted provider is required.

Instructions:

• Identify which HPE Small Business Solution(s) can be suitable for this customer and explain your choice.
• Use the Configuration Guides in order to propose a specific solution or solutions.
• Describe how the chosen solution addresses the customer’s challenges.

INV is a marketing and publishing company. The multi-vendor infrastructure is outdated, and the Managing Director would like to re-invest in a new solution.

The data is largely based on file sharing between the 22 users. There is one IT Support Administrator who is an IT generalist.

The IT manager has requested a new solution which meets the following points:

• Simple setup
• Simple day to day administration
• Affordable
• Customer data must be secure
• Easy to back and restore data

Instructions:

• Identify which HPE Small Business Solution(s) can be suitable for this customer and explain your choice.
• Use the Configuration Guides in order to propose a specific solution or solutions.
• Describe how the chosen solution addresses the customer’s challenges.

JJT is a company which manufactures and supplies marine electronic equipment to customers in the country. The company has 200 users and has expanded operations.

The typical workloads include file sharing between project teams, and working on different versions of documents.

They have some old rack servers in a small rack in their server room.

The focus for IT has accordingly changed from simplicity and daily administration to other requirements such as:

• Growth
• Business Continuity
• Flexibility due to changing project requirements
• Compatibility with Microsoft Cloud

The IT Manager has asked for solutions which would meet these requirements, and also be future-proofed.