TechValidate Research on Scale Computing HC3

Introduction

This case study of a small business energy & utilities company is based on an October 2020 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:

Solved the following operational challenges after deploying HC3:

• Enabled virtualization without complexity
• Reduced time spent managing Infrastructure
• Improved availability of critical workloads
• Improved scalability of Infrastructure

Purchased their HC3 system for the following reasons:

• To execute an infrastructure refresh (replacing aging hardware)

Purchased HC3 over the following vendors:

• Hypervisor – Microsoft Hyper-V
• Dell Servers / SAN

Use Case

• Has 1 IT personnel responsible for infrastructure.
• Runs 50-74 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: very differentiated
• Ease of implementation: very 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
• Single vendor support

Decreased the time spent recovering from a hardware failure running a critical workload from 1-8 hours to less than 10 minutes (83-97% reduction in recovery time) with the high availability built into HC3.