TechValidate Research on Scale Computing HC3

Introduction

This case study of a educational institution is based on an April 2020 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 after deploying HC3:
  • Improved scalability of Infrastructure
  • Solved single vendor support of Infrastructure
  • Reduced IT operating costs
• Purchased their HC3 system for the following reasons:
  • To execute an infrastructure refresh (replacing aging hardware)
  • For Hypervisor Licensing Renewal
  • To reduce operational costs
• Purchased HC3 over the following vendors:
  • Hypervisor – VMware

Use Case

• Has 3 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: extremely differentiated
  • Scalability: extremely differentiated
  • Reliability: extremely differentiated
  • Ease of implementation: very differentiated
  • Ease of use: extremely differentiated
• Sees the following as the biggest benefits of Scale Computing HC3:
  • Ease of use
  • High availability of Virtual Machines
  • Single vendor support