TechValidate Research on Scale Computing HC3

Introduction

This case study of a educational institution is based on an October 2018 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

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

• Solved the following operational challenges after deploying HC3:
  • Enabled virtualization without complexity
  • Reduced time spent managing Infrastructure
• 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
  • Dell Servers / SAN
  • HP Servers / SAN
  • EMC
  • NetApp
  • Nutanix
  • Simplivity
  • VMware VSAN
  • VxRail
• Has 2 IT personnel responsible for infrastructure.
• Runs Less than 10 Virtual Machines on HC3.

Results

The surveyed organization 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: Very differentiated
  • Reliability: Very 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