Original Research on Scale Computing Platform

Operational Challenges Solved By Scale Computing Platform

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

Enabled virtualization without complexity	81%
Reduced time spent managing Infrastructure	65%
Improved availability of critical workloads	44%
Improved scalability of Infrastructure	66%
Improved disaster recovery	58%
Single vendor support of Infrastructure	40%
Reduced IT operating costs	41%
Other	5%

HC3 Customer Satisfaction Rating

Scott White, a Systems and Network Administrator at LTP Sports Group Inc., would be very likely to recommend HC3 for this reason:

Case Study: Educational Institution

Introduction

This case study of a educational institution is based on a September 2014 survey of HC3 customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“It’s nice not to worry about lost data.”

Challenges

Solved the following operational challenges by deploying HC3:
- Enabled virtualization without complexity
- Improved availability of critical workloads
- Improved disaster recovery
Purchased their HC3 system for the following reasons:
- For Infrastructure Refresh (replacing aging hardware)

Use Case

Purchased HC3 over the following vendors:
- Hypervisor – VMware
- Hypervisor – Microsoft Hyper-V
- HP Servers / SAN
Runs 10-24 Virtual Machines on HC3.
25-49% of their environment is virtualized.

Results

Rated the following HC3 capabilities in terms of how differentiated they from the competition:
- Ease of use: very differentiated
- Ease of implementation: extremely differentiated
- Reliability: very differentiated
- Scalability: very differentiated
- Single vendor support: extremely differentiated
Sees the following as the biggest benefits of Scale Computing HC3:
- High availability of Virtual Machines
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

Still in its infancy, but for us, it is the high availability and scalability of the solution that has had the most current operational impact. As we grow over time, it will be ease of management and reduced maintenance from having to maintain other components (ie server, san, networking).

— Mike Nancekivell, IT Manager, Town of Collingwood

HC3 Case Study

Small Business Metals & Mining Company

Introduction

This case study of a small business metals & mining company is based on a July 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
- Solved single vendor support of Infrastructure
Purchased their HC3 system for the following reasons:
- For Infrastructure Refresh (replacing aging hardware)

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of HC3 that the surveyed company uses:

Purchased HC3 over the following vendors:
- Dell Servers / SAN
- HP Servers / SAN
Has 2 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: Very differentiated
- Ease of implementation: Very 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

Scale Computing Platform Customer Research

What are your top drivers for purchasing Scale Computing Platform?

Infrastructure Refresh – replacing aging hardware	85%
Support business growth expectations or new business initiatives	46%
Reduce Operational Costs	43%
Support higher uptime SLAs for critical workloads	26%
Hypervisor Licensing Renewal	20%
Meet increasing RPO and RTO SLAs	8%

TechValidate Research on Scale Computing Platform

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Selected Research Highlights

Operational Challenges Solved By Scale Computing Platform

Case Study: Educational Institution

Introduction

Challenges

Use Case

Results

Organization Profile

About HC3

Small Business Metals & Mining Company

Introduction

Challenges

Use Case

Results

Company Profile

About HC3

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About Scale Computing Platform

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.