TechValidate Research on Scale Computing HC3

Introduction

This case study of a small business food company is based on a January 2017 survey of HC3 customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

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
  • Reduced IT operating costs
• Purchased their HC3 system for the following reasons:
  • For Infrastructure Refresh (replacing aging hardware)
  • To reduce operational costs

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
  • Dell Servers / SAN
  • HP Servers / SAN
  • EMC
  • NetApp
  • Nutanix
  • Simplivity
• Has 2 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: differentiated
  • Scalability: differentiated
  • Ease of implementation: differentiated
  • Ease of use: very differentiated
• Sees the following as the biggest benefits of Scale Computing HC3:
  • Ease of use
  • Ease and speed of implementation

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise retail company is based on an October 2018 survey of HC3 customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

• Solved the following operational challenges after deploying HC3:
  • Enabled virtualization without complexity
  • Reduced time spent managing Infrastructure
  • Improved scalability of Infrastructure
  • Solved single vendor support of Infrastructure
  • Reduced IT operating costs
• Purchased their HC3 system for the following reasons:
  • For Infrastructure Refresh (replacing aging hardware)
  • For Hypervisor Licensing Renewal

Use Case

• Purchased HC3 over the following vendors:
  • Hypervisor – VMware
  • Dell Servers / SAN
  • VMware VSAN
  • VxRail
• Has 4-5 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: Very differentiated
  • Scalability: Very differentiated
  • Reliability: Differentiated
  • Ease of implementation: Extremely differentiated
  • Ease of use: Very 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 25-49% after deploying HC3.