TechValidate Research on Scale Computing HC3

Introduction

This case study of Rapid City Area Schools is based on a January 2020 survey of HC3 customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled organization 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
  • 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)
  • For Hypervisor Licensing Renewal
  • To support higher uptime SLAs for critical workloads
  • To support business growth expectations or new business initiatives
  • To meet increasing RPO and RTO SLAs
  • To reduce operational costs
• Purchased HC3 over the following vendors:
  • Hypervisor – VMware
  • Dell Servers / SAN
  • HP Servers / SAN

Use Case

• Has 1 IT personnel responsible for infrastructure.
• Runs 25-49 Virtual Machines on HC3.

Results

The surveyed organization 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: extremely differentiated
  • Reliability: extremely differentiated
  • Ease of implementation: extremely 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
  • Scalability
  • Single vendor support
• Decreased the time spent recovering from a hardware failure running a critical workload from 8-24 hours to less than 10 minutes (97-99% reduction in recovery time) with the high availability built into HC3.
• Reduced the time their IT staff spends managing infrastructure by > 75% after deploying HC3.