TechValidate Research on Scale Computing HC3

Introduction

This case study of a educational institution 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:

• Reduced time spent managing Infrastructure
• Improved scalability of Infrastructure
• Reduced IT operating costs

Purchased their HC3 system for the following reasons:

• To execute an infrastructure refresh (replacing aging hardware)
• To reduce operational costs

Purchased HC3 over the following vendors:

• EMC
• VMware VSAN

Use Case

• Has 3 IT personnel responsible for infrastructure.
• Runs 10-24 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: extremely differentiated
• Reliability: extremely 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
• High availability of Virtual Machines
• Reliability
• Scalability
• 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.