TechValidate Research on Scale Computing HC3

Introduction

This case study of a small business legal company is based on an October 2018 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:
  • 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
• Purchased their HC3 system for the following reasons:
  • For Infrastructure Refresh (replacing aging hardware)
  • For Hypervisor Licensing Renewal
  • 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
  • Nutanix
• Has 1 IT personnel responsible for infrastructure.
• Runs 10-24 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: very 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
  • 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 over 1 week to less than 10 minutes (99.9% reduction in recovery time) with the high availability built into HC3.