TechValidate Research on Scale Computing HC3

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise energy & utilities company is based on a January 2019 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

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select HC3:

• Solved the following operational challenges after deploying HC3:
  • Reduced time spent managing Infrastructure
  • Improved scalability of Infrastructure
  • Solved single vendor support of Infrastructure
  • Reduced IT operating costs
• Purchased their HC3 system for the following reasons:
  • For Infrastructure Refresh (replacing aging hardware)
  • For Hypervisor Licensing Renewal

Use Case

• Purchased HC3 over the following vendors:
  • NetApp
  • Nutanix
• Has 4-5 IT personnel responsible for infrastructure.
• Runs 25-49 Virtual Machines on HC3.

Results

The surveyed company 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: differentiated
  • Reliability: very 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
  • Ease and speed of implementation
  • Single vendor support