TechValidate Research on Scale Computing HC3

Introduction

This case study of a global 500 chemicals company is based on an October 2017 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

• Realized the following operational challenges by deploying HC3:
  • Enabled virtualization without complexity
  • Reduced time spent managing Infrastructure
  • Improved availability of critical workloads
  • Improved scalability of Infrastructure
  • Improved disaster recovery
  • Reduced IT operating costs
• Purchased their HC3 system for the following reasons:
  • For Infrastructure Refresh (replacing aging hardware)
  • To support higher uptime SLAs for critical workloads
  • To reduce operational costs

Use Case

• Purchased HC3 over the following vendors:
  • Hypervisor – VMware
  • Hypervisor – Microsoft Hyper-V
• Has 4-5 IT personnel responsible for infrastructure.
• Runs Less than 10 Virtual Machines on HC3.

Results

• Rated the following HC3 capabilities in terms of how it differentiated them from the competition:
  • Single vendor support: extremely differentiated
  • Scalability: very differentiated
  • Reliability: extremely differentiated
  • Ease of implementation: differentiated
  • Ease of use: differentiated
• Sees the following as the biggest benefits of Scale Computing HC3:
  • Ease and speed of implementation
  • High availability of Virtual Machines
  • Reliability
  • Scalability
• Decreased the time spent recovering from a hardware failure running a critical workload not at all with the high availability built into HC3.