TechValidate Research on Scale Computing HC3

Introduction

This case study of AdminisTEP LLC (was Legacy Consulting) is based on a September 2014 survey of HC3 customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

• Solved the following operational challenges by deploying HC3:
  • Enabled virtualization without complexity
  • Reduced time spent managing Infrastructure
  • Improved scalability of Infrastructure
  • Reduced IT operating costs
• Purchased their HC3 system for the following reasons:
  • For Infrastructure Refresh (replacing aging hardware)
  • To support business growth expectations or new business initiatives
  • To reduce operational costs

Use Case

• Purchased HC3 over the following vendors:
  • Hypervisor – Microsoft Hyper-V
  • Dell Servers / SAN
  • Home grown KVM
• Runs 10-24 Virtual Machines on HC3.
• 25-49% of their environment is virtualized.

Results

• Rated the following HC3 capabilities in terms of how differentiated they from the competition:
  • Ease of use: very differentiated
  • Ease of implementation: extremely differentiated
  • Reliability: extremely differentiated
  • Scalability: very differentiated
  • Single vendor support: extremely 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
  • Reliability
  • Scalability
• Reduced the time their IT staff spends managing infrastructure by 10-24% after deploying HC3.

Introduction

This case study of a educational institution is based on a February 2016 survey of HC3 customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

• Realized the following operational challenges by deploying HC3:
  • Enabled virtualization without complexity
  • Reduced time spent managing Infrastructure
  • Improved scalability of Infrastructure
  • Improved disaster recovery
• Purchased their HC3 system for the following reasons:
  • For Infrastructure Refresh (replacing aging hardware)
  • To support higher uptime SLAs for critical workloads

Use Case

• Purchased HC3 over the following vendors:
  • Hypervisor – VMware
  • Hypervisor – Microsoft Hyper-V
  • EMC
  • NetApp
• Has 2 IT personnel responsible for infrastructure.
• Runs Less than 10 Virtual Machines on HC3.

Results

• Rated the following HC3 capabilities in terms of how differentiated they from the competition:
  • Ease of use: extremely differentiated
  • Ease of implementation: very differentiated
  • Reliability: differentiated
  • Scalability: differentiated
  • Single vendor support: extremely 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
  • Reliability
  • Scalability
  • Single vendor support
• Reduced the time their IT staff spends managing infrastructure by 25-49% after deploying HC3.