TechValidate Research on Scale Computing HC3

Introduction

This case study of a state & local government 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:
  • Enabled virtualization without complexity
  • Reduced time spent managing Infrastructure
  • Improved availability of critical workloads
  • Improved scalability of Infrastructure
  • Improved disaster recovery
  • 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)
  • To support business growth expectations or new business initiatives
  • To reduce operational costs
• Purchased HC3 over the following vendors:
  • Hypervisor – Microsoft Hyper-V
  • Dell Servers / SAN
  • HP Servers / SAN
  • Nutanix
  • Simplivity

Use Case

• Has 2 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: very differentiated
  • Reliability: differentiated
  • Ease of implementation: very differentiated
  • Ease of use: 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
  • Scalability
  • Single vendor support
• Decreased the time spent recovering from a hardware failure running a critical workload not at all with the high availability built into HC3.
• Reduced the time their IT staff spends managing infrastructure by 10-24% after deploying HC3.