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 Testimonial

Much less time spent on monitoring, updates, implementation, etc.

— IT Administrator, Small Business Wholesale Distribution Company

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

Colquitt Electric Membership Corporation

Introduction

This case study of Colquitt Electric Membership Corporation is based on a January 2019 survey of HC3 customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“Increased the performance of a major in-house application. The increase also enables 2 other systems to work mor efficiently.”

Challenges

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

Solved the following operational challenges after deploying HC3:
- Enabled virtualization without complexity
- Reduced time spent managing Infrastructure
- 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)
- For Hypervisor Licensing Renewal
- To support higher uptime SLAs for critical workloads
- To reduce operational costs

Use Case

Purchased HC3 over the following vendors:
- Hypervisor – VMware
- Hypervisor – Microsoft Hyper-V
- Dell Servers / SAN
- HP Servers / SAN
- EMC
- Simplivity
- VMware VSAN
Has 4-5 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 they differentiated from the competition:
- Single vendor support: extremely differentiated
- Scalability: extremely differentiated
- Reliability: extremely 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
- 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 not at all with the high availability built into HC3.
Reduced the time their IT staff spends managing infrastructure by 10-24% after deploying HC3.

Case Study: Modern Drop Forge Company

Introduction

This case study of Modern Drop Forge Company 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 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:
- 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
- Hypervisor – Microsoft Hyper-V
- Dell Servers / SAN
Runs Less than 10 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: very differentiated
- Ease of implementation: very differentiated
- Reliability: 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
- Reliability
- Scalability
- Single vendor support
Reduced the time their IT staff spends managing infrastructure by 25-49% after deploying HC3.

HC3 Customer Testimonial

[With HC3, there is] less time spent managing and deploying virtual machines. HC3 is much less complex than VMWare, therefore it saves time and money.

— Terry Brailsford, IT Director, Automation Engineering

TechValidate Research on Scale Computing HC3

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Colquitt Electric Membership Corporation

Introduction

Challenges

Use Case

Results

Company Profile

About HC3

Case Study: Modern Drop Forge Company

Introduction

Challenges

Use Case

Results

Company Profile

About HC3

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About Scale Computing HC3

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.