Original Research on Scale Computing HC3

HC3 Customer Research

What do you see as the biggest benefits of Scale Computing HC3?

Ease of use	83%
Ease and Speed of Implementation	63%
High Availability of Virtual Machines	63%
Reliability	52%
Scalability	64%
Single Vendor Support	55%
Other	4%

HC3 Customer Research

What types of operational challenges did deploying HC3 solve for your organization?

Enabled virtualization without complexity	72%
Reduced time spent managing Infrastructure	66%
Improved scalability of Infrastructure	64%
Improved disaster recovery	61%
Improved availability of critical workloads	45%
Single vendor support of Infrastructure	44%
Reduced IT operating costs	43%

HC3 Case Study

Filling Home Main Campus

Introduction

This case study of Filling Home Main Campus is based on an October 2018 survey of HC3 customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“Less time when making new servers and added Disaster Recovery.”

Challenges

Solved the following operational challenges after deploying HC3:
- Enabled virtualization without complexity
- Improved scalability of Infrastructure
- Improved disaster recovery
- Solved single vendor support of Infrastructure
Purchased their HC3 system for the following reasons:
- To support business growth expectations or new business initiatives
- Built-in Disaster Recovery

Use Case

Purchased HC3 over the following vendors:
- Hypervisor – Microsoft Hyper-V
- HP Servers / SAN
Has 2 IT personnel responsible for infrastructure.
Runs 25-49 Virtual Machines on HC3.

Results

Rated the following HC3 capabilities in terms of how they differentiated from the competition:
- Single vendor support: Extremely differentiated
- Scalability: Extremely differentiated
- Reliability: Extremely differentiated
- Ease of implementation: Very differentiated
- Ease of use: Extremely differentiated
Sees the following as the biggest benefits of Scale Computing HC3:
- Ease of use
- High availability of Virtual Machines
- Reliability
- Scalability
- Single vendor support
Decreased the time spent recovering from a hardware failure running a critical workload from over 1 week to less than 10 minutes (99.9% reduction in recovery time) with the high availability built into HC3.
Reduced the time their IT staff spends managing infrastructure by 25-49% after deploying HC3.

HC3 relieved us of a lot of worry about our aging hardware and has made availability and redundancy a big part of our infrastructure. The ability to upgrade firmware without losing machine use during the workday is amazing; and the ease of configuring and backing up VMs is beyond anything we ever had before.

— Jessica McGeary, IT Manager, Merganser Capital Management

Case Study: Washington State Department Of Early Learning

Introduction

This case study of Washington State Department of Early Learning is based on a September 2014 survey of HC3 customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“The scales have greatly reduced the complexity of managing a virtualized environment and simplified the ability to scale and increase capacity with minimal downtime.”

Challenges

Solved the following operational challenges by deploying HC3:
- Reduced time spent managing Infrastructure
- Improved scalability of Infrastructure
Purchased their HC3 system for the following reasons:
- For Infrastructure Refresh (replacing aging hardware)
- To support business growth expectations or new business initiatives

Use Case

Purchased HC3 over the following vendors:
- Hypervisor – Microsoft Hyper-V
- HP Servers / SAN
Runs 10-24 Virtual Machines on HC3.
> 75% of their environment is virtualized.

Results

Rated the following HC3 capabilities in terms of how differentiated they from the competition:
- Ease of use: extremely differentiated
- Ease of implementation: differentiated
- Reliability: extremely differentiated
- Scalability: extremely differentiated
- Single vendor support: very differentiated
Sees the following as the biggest benefits of Scale Computing HC3:
- Ease of use
- Ease and speed of implementation
- High availability of Virtual Machines
- Scalability
Reduced the time their IT staff spends managing infrastructure by 50-74% after deploying HC3.

HC3 Customer Satisfaction Rating

Dallin Gilbert, an IT Administrator at Bender Warehouse Co., would be very likely to recommend HC3 for this reason:

HC3 is very simple and easy to use. It has the features we need to be able to create a highly available environment without having to have a VMware or equivalent expert.

TechValidate Research on Scale Computing HC3

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Filling Home Main Campus

Introduction

Challenges

Use Case

Results

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Case Study: Washington State Department Of Early Learning

Introduction

Challenges

Use Case

Results

Organization Profile

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Scale Computing integrates storage, servers, and virtualization software into an all-in-one appliance based system that is scalable, self-healing and as easy to manage as a single server.