TechValidate Research on Scale Computing HC3

Introduction

This case study of JMA Energy 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
  • 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 reduce operational costs

Use Case

• Purchased HC3 over the following vendors:
  • Hypervisor – VMware
  • HP Servers / SAN
• Runs Less than 10 Virtual Machines on HC3.
• 50-74% 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: extremely differentiated
  • Reliability: very differentiated
  • Scalability: extremely 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
  • High availability of Virtual Machines
  • Scalability
• 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.
• Reduced the time their IT staff spends managing infrastructure by 10-24% after deploying HC3.