TechValidate Research on Scale Computing HC3

Introduction

This case study of a educational institution is based on a December 2014 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

• Solved the following operational challenges by deploying HC3:
  • Enabled virtualization without complexity
  • Reduced time spent managing Infrastructure
  • Improved availability of critical workloads
  • Improved scalability of Infrastructure
  • Improved disaster recovery
  • Reduced IT operating costs
• Purchased their HC3 system for the following reasons:
  • For Infrastructure Refresh (replacing aging hardware)
  • To reduce operational costs

Use Case

• Purchased HC3 over the following vendors:
  • Hypervisor – VMware
  • Hypervisor – Microsoft Hyper-V
  • Nutanix
  • Simplivity
• Runs 10-24 Virtual Machines on HC3.
• 10-24% 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: very differentiated
  • reliability: differentiated
  • scalability: differentiated
  • single vendor support: 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
• 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 50-74% after deploying HC3.

Introduction

This case study of Intracorp Real Estate LLC is based on a November 2015 survey of HC3 customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

• Realized the following after deploying HC3:
  • Enabled virtualization without complexity
  • Improved scalability of Infrastructure
  • Improved disaster recovery
• 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 – VMware
  • HP Servers / SAN
• Has 1 IT personnel responsible for infrastructure
• Runs Less than 10 Virtual Machines on HC3

Results

• 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
• Decreased the time spent recovering from a hardware failure running a critical workload from 8-24 hours to less than 10 minutes (97-99% reduction in recovery time) with the high availability built into HC3
• Reduced the time their IT staff spends managing infrastructure by 50-74% after deploying HC3