TechValidate Research on Scale Computing HC3

Introduction

This case study of Cypress Christian School is based on an October 2018 survey of HC3 customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

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

• Solved the following operational challenges after deploying HC3:
  • Reduced time spent managing Infrastructure
  • Improved scalability of Infrastructure
• Purchased their HC3 system for the following reasons:
  • For Infrastructure Refresh (replacing aging hardware)
  • To support higher uptime SLAs for critical workloads

Use Case

• Purchased HC3 over the following vendors:
  • Hypervisor – VMware
  • Hypervisor – Microsoft Hyper-V
• 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: 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
  • Single vendor support
• Decreased the time spent recovering from a hardware failure running a critical workload from over 1 week to less than 10 minutes (99.9% reduction in recovery time) with the high availability built into HC3.
• Reduced the time their IT staff spends managing infrastructure by 50-74% after deploying HC3.