TechValidate Research on Scale Computing HC3

Introduction

This case study of Automation Engineering is based on an October 2017 survey of HC3 customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select HC3:

• Realized 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
• Purchased their HC3 system for the following reasons:
  • For Hypervisor Licensing Renewal
  • To support higher uptime SLAs for critical workloads
  • To support business growth expectations or new business initiatives

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of HC3 that the surveyed company uses:

• Purchased HC3 over the following vendors:
  • Hypervisor – VMware
  • Hypervisor – Microsoft Hyper-V
  • HP Servers / SAN
• Has 3 IT personnel responsible for infrastructure.
• Runs 10-24 Virtual Machines on HC3.

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with HC3:

• Rated the following HC3 capabilities in terms of how differentiated they from the competition:
  • Single vendor support: extremely differentiated
  • Scalability: extremely differentiated
  • Reliability: extremely differentiated
  • Ease of implementation: extremely differentiated
  • Ease of use: 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 50-74% after deploying HC3.

Introduction

This case study of Kensington School is based on an April 2017 survey of HC3 customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

• Realized 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
  • Solved single vendor support of Infrastructure
  • Reduced IT operating costs
• Purchased their HC3 system for the following reasons:
  • Infrastructure Refresh (replacing aging hardware)
  • Hypervisor Licensing Renewal
  • Reduce operational costs

Use Case

• Purchased HC3 over the following vendors:
  • Hypervisor – VMware
  • Hypervisor – Microsoft Hyper-V
  • Nutanix
• Has 2 IT personnel responsible for infrastructure.
• Runs 10-24 Virtual Machines on HC3.

Results

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