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What types of operational challenges did deploying SC//Platform solve for your organization?

Enabled virtualization without complexity	72%
Reduced time spent managing Infrastructure	66%
Improved scalability of Infrastructure	64%
Improved disaster recovery	61%
Improved availability of critical workloads	45%
Single vendor support of Infrastructure	44%
Reduced IT operating costs	43%

HC3 Case Study

North Devon Homes Ltd

Introduction

This case study of North Devon Homes Ltd is based on an April 2018 survey of HC3 customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“It’s made the infrastructure operations of our VM workloads as simple as we always wanted.”

Challenges

Solved the following operational challenges by deploying HC3:
- Enabled virtualization without complexity
- Reduced time spent managing infrastructure
- 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 business growth expectations or new business initiatives

Use Case

Purchased HC3 over the following vendors:
- Hypervisor – VMware
- Hypervisor – Microsoft Hyper-V
- Nutanix
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: Very differentiated
- Scalability: Not differentiated
- Reliability: Not differentiated
- Ease of implementation: Very 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
- Single vendor support
- Product aimed at our market – SMB – not paying for things we don’t need
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.

HC3 Case Study

Medium Enterprise Agriculture Company

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise agriculture company is based on a July 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.

“Scale has been great to work with; they’ve really taken the complexity out of managing a server infrastructure.”

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 disaster recovery
Solved single vendor support of Infrastructure

Purchased their HC3 system for the following reasons:

To support higher uptime SLAs for critical workloads
To support business growth expectations or new business initiatives

Purchased HC3 over the following vendors:

Hypervisor – VMware
Hypervisor – Microsoft Hyper-V
Dell Servers / SAN
HP Servers / SAN
EMC
Nutanix

Use Case

Has 2 IT personnel responsible for infrastructure.
Runs Less than 10 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: 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
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.

HC3 Customer Testimonial

We used HC3 to replace our outsourced hosting of file servers and database servers. We were previously paying a huge monthly cost for this service. Bringing HC3 in-house makes it more cost effective and less dependent on network connections to external vendors which we have no control over.

— Matt Beckler, IT Director, Overture Center for the Arts

By what percentage did your SC//Platform deployment reduce the time your IT staff spent on managing infrastructure?

> 75% savings: 8%

50-74% savings: 23%

25-49% savings: 15%

10-24% savings: 54%

John Thomas, an IT Manager at Urology Clinics of North Texas, is very likely to recommend HC3 for the following reason:

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North Devon Homes Ltd

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Use Case

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Medium Enterprise Agriculture Company

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Use Case

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Company Profile

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Scale Computing integrates storage, servers, and virtualization software into an all-in-one appliance based system that is scalable, self-healing and as easy to manage as a single server.